Wow. What a big, colorful celebration! Thanks for the tour.
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I apologise if I am spamming you with images, but it has just been a
> photographically rich couple of weeks. Easter is a big deal here in Spain,
> for many reasons: several days off (Friday and Monday are holidays here),
> the traditional onset of beach weather in this part of the country, and of
> course the religious significance. There are processions every day
> beginning with Palm Sunday and ending Easter Sunday. In previous years, I
> have gone to the grand finale on Sunday, but this year I decided to go to
> the Good Friday procession which tends to me more somber than the Sunday
> one. There were actually four different processions yesterday. The one I
> chose was Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, starting around 8:30 pm from one of
> the Alicante’s two main churches, Basílica de Santa Maria, and lasting for
> 3 hours or so. I just hung around for the beginning, and the passage
> through a cozy little square a couple of hundred metres down the road. This
> little gallery of 33 images will give you an idea of what it looks like in
> our part of Spain:
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> http://www.greatpix.eu/Viernes-Santo-2017/
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> I always find it deliciously ironic that I, an agnostic Jew, go to see
> these processions every year while my Catholic wife stays at home—she
> dislikes big crowds.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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