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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

The drunk men in action. Note how fancy and blue Mary’s float is—she’s also known here as the Queen of the Heavens.

SPAIN | Thursday, 10 May 2007 | Views [373]

The drunk men in action. Note how fancy and blue Mary’s float is—she’s also known here as the Queen of the Heavens.

Mary’s arrival is an event in itself. The Wednesday of Semana Santa features three Vírgenes, and the crowd apparently goes wild. Thanks to old Pagan beliefs, where the Goddess was associated with fertility and springtime, the men of Spain call La Virgen “guapa” (“beautiful”) and whistle obnoxiously as she parades on by.

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Mary’s floats are always much finer, made of gold- and silver-painted metals (remember how poor Baroque Spain was). This Mary is made entirely of wood, but usually her dress is real fabric, meaning her body is a wire frame. This makes her hips sway back and forth as the processions proceed and basically just serves to egg the Spanish men on.

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