Easter Week in Spain is known as Semana Santa (Holy Week) and is celebrated much more in Spain than in most of the European countries. There are evening street processions in most of the Spanish towns starting from Palm Sunday right through to Easter Sunday.
In the processions, statues of saints are carried on wooden platforms or on floats by religious brotherhoods and they are also responsible for organising musicians. The people carrying these are known as “costaleros” and many of them use a small cushion, called a “costal” to prevent themselves from getting sores from the wood rubbing against their skin during the processions.
They are followed by people dressed in outfits which are similar looking to the Ku Klux Klan, but they are in fact depicting the clothing worn by the Nazareños (people from Nazareth).
The Easter week processions end on Easter Sunday and church and cathedral bells can be heard ringing throughout the whole of Spain.
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