Granada Festivals

From that year until now, the movement is formed by 32 founding guilds. Years 20, 40, 70, and 80 are the major eras of creating corporations by the Grenadines brothers, the latter being more than a decade that the foundation boiling lived.

The incorporation of youth for over 25 years through the squads of Costaleros Brothers opened the door for the arrival of fresh air to stagnating corporations and prehistoric structures. Today young people and women are fundamental pillars of the brotherhoods and its work over the years has created an Easter like that can be enjoyed today.

Semana Santa de Granada, for their youth, has searched in the Holy Week in Andalusia examples to look at. Therefore, his personality is quite a few elements and has been adapted from other provinces. In his early release and the Spanish city of Malaga were mirrors in which the guilds Grenadines looked.

But today the brand is Seville hegemony, brother in the city. Despite this, Granada offers a very important element: the power of his imagery and the value of a unique landscape.

There are a General Council fraternities and guilds, whose members are elected every four years by the older brothers of the various fraternities, which is responsible for organizing the Easter celebration and streamlining procedures and agreements with official institutions and everything related to the Carrera Oficial.

There is a whole series of elements related to the Semana Santa Granada as steps, the guilds, and brotherhoods, the Nazarenes, the costaleros and bolts.

Corpus Christi in Granada

La Feria de Granada has no fixed date for celebration because it is linked to the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi, which is linked to the timing Easter each year, which has different dates, although the month of celebration is usually normal in June.

It was established by the Institution Catholic Kings Day as Mayor after the conquest of the city. Its beginning coincides with the Thursday of Corpus Christi, and from then there are eight days of festivities.

It is a traditional festival, with over 500 years of history. The fairground is in Almanjayar, and it is advisable to travel in buses that the company Rober offers throughout the holidays from noon until the wee hours.

Deckhouses for tapas stand between Plaza del Ayuntamiento and Bib-Rambla, which often accommodate large numbers of pedestrians who used to take the first drink or lunch with friends.

In most booths you can taste the typical dishes of the earth—stew, gazpacho, Chota with garlic, fried fish, sardines espetos—and common dishes as well, such as chicken with potatoes, paella, pinchitos, sandwiches, and sausages.

People are dressed in costumes, typical Andalusian horses leave the car, and there are stalls and fairground attractions, many of them bullfighting and snagging competitions. Processions are held on Wednesday, Thursday morning, and Sunday afternoon.

On Wednesday there is the public sale, which is a celebration for children and youth and which undoubtedly creates the Tarascan, a mannequin on a dragon that is supposed to be wearing the clothes out of fashion this season.

Holy Week in Granada

The celebration of the various events that take place during Holy Week becomes one of the largest cultural, religious, and artistic celebrations that take place in this city.

Holy Week in Granada, as known at present (2008), has only one century of existence. Their tradition goes away with the confiscation of Mendizabal, and it was not until 1917 when a movement was reborn and led by the Archbishop of Granada.

The highlight of the fair is on Thursday, the day of Corpus Christi, when a religious procession takes place in the morning and now includes a throne made by the goldsmith and sculptor Miguel Moreno.

The procession leaves the Cathedral Plateresque custody on a carriage decorated with flowers, accompanied by civil authorities, representatives of guilds, and the public. The procession was in honor of the Monstrance containing the body of Christ and was formed by all the parishes of the city and the towns of La Vega, who were also responsible for covering the entire floor of the sedge route.

The procession is preceded by the Giants, representing Christians and Moors. It continues the tradition of building altars along the processional route and in the Plaza de Bib-Rambla called “Caroca,” drawings and Quintillan that have an allusive, satirical tone to events in the city during the previous year. The procession leaving Sunday afternoon is more sober and without folk elements.

Other Popular Festivals

January 2—Take the Day is a celebration of Granada’s and controversial before Nasrid surrendered to the Catholic Kings in 1492.

February 1—St. Cecilia is the patron of the city of Granada, was bishop of Granada, and a martyr during the first century.

Spring Festival on the weekend closest to March 21.

May 3—Day of the Cross

May 15—Fiesta de San Isidro

May 26—Procession of the Sacred Heart

Changing Date—Day of the Tarascan

September 15—An offering of flowers to the Our Lady of Sorrows, a patron saint of the city.

Last Sunday in September—Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows, patron saint of the city.

September 29—San Miguel