HOLY WEEK
IN CORDOBA
When the smell
of orange blossom invades the city of Córdoba, Holy Week is approaching with brotherhoods walking along the streets with their courtship and their images. These
days, the city is visited by tourists who discover and admire the float ("pasos") with their images walking
slowly along narrow and charming streets. The Holy Week in Cordoba offers you
art( images and sculptures of great valueand beauty), as same as devotion and
music with an incomparable ambience.
If you want to
visit the city these days, keep in mind that
this year ,the official itinerary (it is a place where the brotherhoods have to pass obligatorily)has been changed and will be around the
Cathedral.The brotherhoods will pass through these streets that sourround this area, making you fe admiration and a real delight. If you want
to enjoy the processions in a comfortable way ,chairs will be at your disposal along the itinerary .
The official
itinerary begins at the Bridge Gate.The
floats will continue through Torrijos, accessing the Patio de los Naranjos
through the door of forgiveness, and then they will enter the inside of the temple through the Gate of the Palms
and leaving by the same access. After this, the procession will head towards
the Puerta de Santa Catalina and then continue down the street Magistral González Francés, ending at
the junction with Cardenal González.
37 brotherhoods
go out in Cordoba during Holy Week, some of them with centuries of history. One of the most devoted image of
The Virgin of Dolores which has a large number of penitents and devotees. It leaves
Good Friday from the Hospital Church of San Jacinto (Los Dolores) and also it is possible to visite her to the church on
Friday of Dolores ,just two days before Palm Sunday.The Rescatado Christ goes out to the streets on Palm Sunday from the church of Nuestra Señora de Gracia. Nuestra Señora de las Angustias that process on Holy Thursday from the church of San Agustín and Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Esperanza that process on Holy Wednesday from the church of the Capuchin convent of the Holy Angel. All the brotherhoods have their devotees who these days go out to the street accompanying their images.
Entrance to the
Lent, different brotherhoods around their different churches take their Christs in viacrucis: like the one of the
Christ of the Clemencia (Brotherhood of Dolores) whose route is Place of
capuchinos, Bailio, Carbonell and Morand, Plaza Cardenal Toledo, Obispo Fitero, Conde de Torres
Cabrera, San Zoilo, San Miguel, interior Parish San Miguel, Ramirez de
Arellano, Osario, Burell, Plaza de las Doblas and Plaza de Capuchinos . The Christ de las Penas, its route includes the
neighborhoods of San Andrés and Santa Marina. On Friday of Dolores many
brotherhoods carry their Christs as in the case of the Brotherhood of Agunstias
with their Virgin of Angustias that crosses the square of St. Augustine, the
brotherhood of the Cister (La Sangre) that processes its Christ de la Sangre around The Plaza de
Capuchinos and the Brotherhood of the Passion that carry their Christ of the
Passion through the Barrio de San Basilio.
Holy Week in Córdoba will make you feel immersed in a religious feeling, that will transport you to centuries of history ago, admiring its proccessions and exploring its streets.
Image of the title of Victor Gonzalez Felices.
Image of the Christ of the Sangre of Ávaro Córdoba.
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