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La granadina It's the spring semester of my junior year, so I am celebrating with un gran viaje filled with classes (unfortunately) and crazy foreign fun.

Semana Santa

Jesus comes with a military marching band playing minor-key marches, evidence of Franco’s enduring and oppressive influence.

SPAIN | Thursday, 10 May 2007 | Views [327]

Jesus comes with a military marching band playing minor-key marches, evidence of Franco’s enduring and oppressive influence.

Jesus (aka Jesucristo) on His way to Resurrection. Semana Santa sculptures are all made of carved and painted wood, most copies of 17th-century works of art by the famous, famous Baroque artists I study in class. The Easter ones, however, are modern pieces designed to lengthen Semana Santa—a purely capitalistic intent.

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Each float is carried by 30 to 40 men, each holding about 40 to 50 kilos across their shoulders. Needless to say the processions move slowly, are accompanied by medics, and stop every few minutes for the men to set the float down and rest. As if this isn’t crazy enough, the 12-hour processions are only divided into two shifts. According to my POE professor, for those six hours, these are the drunkest men in all of Spain.

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