Last week has been crazy here. Every single day from last Saturday, until yesterday there have been religious processions to celebrate the ressurection of Jesus.
Every day there was about 6 or 7 processions of 100s of people dressed up in pointy hats and cloaks (the same outfits used by the K.K.K.) holding candles the size of baseball bats, people swining incents, people carrying crosses, carrying big floats, large musical bands, some military (only once that I saw) and women dressed for and actively mourning.
The freaky thing is to see the hundreds of adults and children (the penitents or nazarones) marching down the street dressed like they are in the K.K.K. Here is an example from the local media: http://servicios.ideal.es/especiales/semanasanta/album2005/universitaria.html. They have pictures from all of the processions on all of the days at http://servicios.ideal.es/especiales/semanasanta/fotografias.html.
The processions shut the city down for the whole week. The main streets are blocked. It becomes impossible sometimes to move through the city. To walk home from my class one evening, I had to walk through and sometimes next to and along the people dressed in these outfits.
Even if you cannot see the processions, you can always here them march as the patriotic/religious music fills the city.
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