Semana Santa (Holy Week), Seville, Spain

The effigy of the Virgin Mary, one of sweveral pasos is carried around the streets of Sevilla. Depending on weight (most weigh over a tonne), a paso requires between twenty-four and fifty-four costaleros to move. Each brotherhood has a distinctive way to raise and move a paso, and even each paso within the procession during Semans Santa, in Andalucia, Spain

Andalucia Associations Brotherhood Brotherhoods Carriers Cofradia Costaleros Depending Distinctive Effigy Fiesta Float Fraternities Hermandad Nazarenes Nazarenos Paso Penance Penitents Piety Processions Raise Requires Semana Sevilla Seville Tonne Twenty-four Weigh

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