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Semana Santa de Alzira(Alzira)

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Alzira's Holy Week, declared a Festival of National Tourist Interest since 1988, has 18 brotherhoods and sisterhoods that take to the streets with 25 processional floats that are true works of art. Each of the brotherhoods and sisterhoods go through the city in their own processions, the via-Crucis and the transfers from Friday of Sorrows to Maundy Thursday.

The Proclamation is the starting signal for a celebration that reaches its climax in the Palm Sunday Procession, a very colourful event with a theatrical performance, as well as in the General Procession of the Holy Burial on Good Friday, which is attended by up to 40,000 people. The great peculiarity of Easter Week in Alzira are the canopies: the brotherhoods that take part in the processions arrange and decorate the images that take part in the parades. These adornments are a wealth of art and imagination and their aim is to make the carvings as realistic as possible.

In Holy Week, an essential and very important element is the drum, which has been integrated in the form of Drum Bands and is currently essential in any manifestation of the Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods. In 2011 the local Tamborada alzireña was declared an Intangible Cultural Interest and in 2018 along with the rest of National Drumming, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by Unesco. It is part of a typology of collective rites based on the simultaneous, intense and continuous beating of thousands of drums and bass drums.

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