Don't you paint the eggs? Ku Klux Klan, guapa and potatoes on the street – Semana Santa in Andalusia
magdalena kusa
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I really wanted to spend Easter in Andalusia because I heard it is so spectacular. And it's true, but it is also really strange for poles.
The most well know thing connected with Easter here are street processions. When you first time go to see it and you can see it from the beggining, you are a little bit scared – why? When you see tens of hooded figures just with the holes for the eyes, with the candels in their hands, first impression is: madre mia, ku klux klan – run away! Then you calm down a little and realise that: c'mon – it's Spain XXI century, not America in XIX. In fact, this hooded persons called here penitentes or as a joke penitontos (tonto means stupid) have old tradition. In the middle ages there were people called – flagellants who talked about the end of the world, took on themselves the sufferings of the world and gave themselves up to repentance. When the pope forbade public scourging, they began to hide under the hoods, which become their symbol. Next this penitents began to form themselves into groups and as one of the objectives chosen to remind people of the Passion. From the fifteenth century, the brotherhood (hermandades) organized processions.
