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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Face masks with images of Jesus, Virgin Mary and soccer players are displayed in a shop during the Holy Week in Seville, southern Spain, Tuesday, March 30, 2021.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.