Easter holidays in Spain

4 destinations with passion for tradition

In Spain Holy Week is lived intensely in many of its towns and cities. The protagonists take the processions and religious acts, which are true museums of imagery and open-air goldsmithing in which emotion spreads to everyone. Multitudinaries, singular or very sound ... we present you 4 traditional Holy Weeks that you can not miss this year. And to stay, the best hotels with charm.

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LA ROMPIDA DE LA HORA DE CALANDA

Easter Calanda is literally one of the most famous in Spain. Every Good Friday, at 12 noon, hundreds of drums and drums break the silence in unison in a square colored purple. It is la Rompida de la Hora, declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest. The big hype marks the rhythm in front of the birthplace of filmmaker Luis Buñuel, who conceived it as "an indefinable emotion that soon becomes a kind of drunkenness that seizes men." Go ahead and break the time on April 19, and stay at one of the hotels and rural houses of Rusticae in Teruel.

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Easter of Vilafamés

Easter in Vilafamés is, without doubt, one of the most beautiful celebrations of the year that is worth living in this town in the interior of Castellón, where you can stay at the El Jardín Vertical hotel. Among the different acts, highlights "The procession of the Christ of the Blood" on Holy Thursday accompanied by drums and drums. After the procession, at midnight, the "Trencada de l'hora" ("Trencada de l'hora") takes place on the Planet of the Parochial Church where the pain for the death of Jesus is symbolized. On Good Friday, the town celebrates the Via Crucis and, at night, a new procession takes place: that of the Burial of the Lord. The large number of acts of Holy Week, as well as the intensity and fervor with which they are made, make these celebrations have a particular attraction that is worth witnessing.

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