Seville on Tuesday cancelled its traditional Easter processions, calling off Spain's most spectacular Holy Week parades with three months' notice because of the coronavirus.

Go Advice:From taking in Easter events in Seville to walking in Garmisch and Rome on a budget, JOAN SCALESanswers your travel questions My wife and I are thinking about going to Seville for the ...

SEVILLE, Spain — As incense and candles burn, trumpets blare and drums beat, penitents covered in colorful tunics and conical hoods march slowly through the night toward the cathedral. Life-size ...

Spain's Seville settles for subdued Easter Week. ... A restored figure of Jesus arrives into Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria church in Seville, southern Spain, Thursday, March 25, 2021.

A controversy has ensued in Spain over an artwork created for Easter week in Seville, with some seeing the image of Jesus created by artist Salustiano García as sexualized and offensive, which ...

By Mariano Valladolid SEVILLE (Reuters) – For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, crowds thronged the streets of Seville as one of Spain’s most iconic Easter processions wound ...

STORY: There are six processions during Seville's Madruga, but the most famous gathering is the Virgin of Macarena. News of its cancelation left many worshippers in tears.The cancelation of La Madruga ...

The pointy garb worn in Spain in the run-up to Easter will horrify many who see it. But this strange costume can mean many different things, writes Kelly Grovier.

Many called it a disgrace, inappropriate, too pretty, modernist and out of line with Seville's Easter tradition. Spain is predominantly Catholic and church traditions such as marriage, ...

Seville on Tuesday cancelled its traditional Easter processions, calling off Spain's most spectacular Holy Week parades with three months' notice because of the coronavirus. With some 1.9 million ...