martes, 12 de abril de 2011

2011 HOLY WEEK IN MALAGA

The Holy Week will start on the 17 of April (Palm Sunday) and will end on the 24 of April 2011 (Easter Sunday).
The artist from Malaga Pepe Palma Santander has been commissioned to perform the official poster for the Holy Week of Malaga 2011. Pepe Palma artist represented in the poster for the Holy Week of Malaga 2011 a classical composition in the style of the movie billboards half of the twentieth century. The poster can be seen, the Virgen de los Dolores del Puente and two Nazarenes with the colors of the city, green and purple, which are the reasons players.

The Malaga-born actor Antonio Banderas will be the preacher of the Holy Week of Malaga 2011, appointment was agreed at a meeting of the governing board of the Association of Guilds proposal of its president, Rafael Recio.

Holy Week in Malaga, is an ancient tradition that dates back to the age of the Catholic Monarchs. The city of Malaga is the capital city of the Costa del Sol and is located in Andalusia, the south of Spain, a land that perfectly combines modernity and tradition in the middle of the 21st Century. The most famous of these traditions is, undoubtedly, its well-known Holy Week of Malaga. The taste for Baroque art by the religious brotherhoods and associations and the great amount of processional materials that they have been accumulating for centuries result in a street stage of exuberant art, full of colour and majesty.


Every year, during the Passion Week in Malaga takes out to the streets a real festival perceptible by the five senses: processional thrones carrying images that are swung all along the entire route, thousands of penitents lighting and giving colour with their candles and robes, processional marches, as well as aromas of incense and flowers filling the air as the processions pass by and thousands of people crowded to see and applaud their favourite tronos (floats, thrones).



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