[Leica] IMG: Good Friday in Alicante

[Nathan Wajsman]

I apologise if I am spamming you with images, but it has just been a photographically rich couple of weeks. Easter is a big deal here in Spain, for many reasons: several days off (Friday and Monday are holidays here), the traditional onset of beach weather in this part of the country, and of course the religious significance. There are processions every day beginning with Palm Sunday and ending Easter Sunday. In previous years, I have gone to the grand finale on Sunday, but this year I decided to go to the Good Friday procession which tends to me more somber than the Sunday one. There were actually four different processions yesterday. The one I chose was Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, starting around 8:30 pm from one of the Alicante’s two main churches, Basílica de Santa Maria, and lasting for 3 hours or so. I just hung around for the beginning, and the passage through a cozy little square a couple of hundred metres down the road. This little gallery of 33 images will give you an idea of what it looks like in our part of Spain:

http://www.greatpix.eu/Viernes-Santo-2017/

I always find it deliciously ironic that I, an agnostic Jew, go to see these processions every year while my Catholic wife stays at home—she dislikes big crowds.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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