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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bernat Armangue and Ciarn Giles

REVEALED: Spain easter procession events a yearlong operation | Rare Historical Photos

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Spain is getting ready for one of its most revered holiday periods of the year: Easter Week, which means thousands of colorful and noisy religious street processions that draw multitudes onto the streets to watch.

The central pieces of the processions are the richly decorated gigantic floats bearing sculptures of Jesus or the Virgin and often weighing up to a ton or more.

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