Happy Easter everybody!
Here Easter is actually a little different. In Spain we celebrate "Semana Santa" (Holy Week), and during Holy Week different processions of different churches go out round the streets. There are nazarenos (nazarenes), people who wear a gown and 'pointy hats'. There are also bands, and 'pasos', which carry the figure of Christ or the Virgin Mary generally.
I don't often go out to watch processions, but I always watch the last one, called "La Resurrección" which goes near-ish where I live. So, at 5am this morning, my mother and I slipped out to watch it and we followed it up to the first open bar where we bought some breakfast ('chocolate y churros'). After that, we returned home and no other mention of Easter has really taken place.
Here are some images of previous Easter, la Resurrección:
Nazarenos
A paso
The paso of the Virgin
The paso of Christ
Of course, in other Hermandades the parts of the stories of Christ are different ones, and the nazarenes may wear different coloured gowns. In la Resurrección they are white for purity, but in other 'Hermandades' they may be black for mourning, or purple, blue etc.
The Resurrección is a reasonably small procession too, there are many others with well over 2 pasos.
