Easter in Asturias. Traditional festivals of Asturias

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With regard to the religious celebrations, Avilés takes the palm and adds seven brotherhoods with their respective processional steps that run through the streets of the town between Palm Sunday and Holy Saturday. Stresses the emotionality of the traditional Silence procession, a procession that is also a protagonist in the fishing village of Cudillero, in western Asturias.

En Gijón, whose Holy Week dates back to the 17th century, highlights the tradition of its images, recovered after the Spanish Civil War.

En the Cathedral of Oviedo Every year they organize a good number of religious events, beginning with the Blessing of Palms, vigil, celebration of the Passion of the Lord, the Easter Mass...

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En Villaviciosa it is said to celebrate the oldest Easter of all Asturian women. The Brotherhood of Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, made up of more than 2000 brothers, is the center of all religious acts. Festival of Regional Tourist Interest.

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Holy Week in Llanes It is full of religious events, which are set in an urban area of extraordinary beauty.

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If we get closer to Infiesto on Good Friday At 18:00 p.m., we'll be able to witness the Stations of the Cross, a lively procession in its streets. A special moment of great spiritual devotion.

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Luarca It enjoys some of the most multitudinous and devout processions of the Asturian West.

In The parish of Besullo (Cangas del Narcea) an ancestral tradition is kept alive. On Holy Saturday, before midnight arrives, a bonfire called Fumaza is lit. All the congregants dance and dance around it throughout the night. This dance, more profane than religious, is accompanied by the tasting of bocho, a sweet bread that is handmade by this time.

In Asturias, on these dates, the Living Way of the Cross in various locations. On Villanueva de Oscos, we can attend a popular representation of the Passion according to San Marcos in which all the neighbors participate on Holy Thursday. in the parish of Saint Stephen of Pianton belonging to the western municipality of VegadeoIn addition to the processions, the reproduction of the central events of the Passion staged by the residents is also organised. A representation of great realism like the one that happens in Infiesto with "Sanhedrin" included, the trial that the high priests made to Jesus before being crucified, one of the most famous dramatizations of Holy Week in Asturias on Holy Thursday. In this same town, also on Holy Thursday, the Last Supper -in the parish church- and the Prayer in the Garden of Olives, in the Plaza Mayor; the Good Friday is the main course with the staging of the Passion of Christ along the main street of the capital of Piloñesa.

En Ribadesella, in eastern Asturias, stands out for its spectacular maritime Via Crucis on Friday night.

En Santo Adriano, celebrate the famous Xuntanza on Saturday, with dances around the bonfire and performances of folk groups.

The range of Asturian towns where Holy Week is celebrated with great pomp are completed by Oviedo, Santa María de LLas (Cabrales), Cangas de Narcea, Cangas de Onís, Covadonga (Cangas de Onís), Grado, Lastres (Colunga), Llanes, Luanco (Gozón), Miranda (Avilés), Pravia, Nava, Salas, and Tapia de Casariego.

Easter Monday and Tuesday Holy Week continues in Avilés and Pola de Siero, with its multitudinous and declared festivals of Regional Tourist Interest. The Bollu Festival in Avilés Easter Monday, is a culinary event and an exaltation of folklore and the Asturian costume. The Feast of the Pinot Eggs, Easter Tuesday in Pola de Siero, is a festival in which the streets are filled with stalls selling eggs painted in watercolor, ink, tempera, with regional motifs, alluding to politics, comedy... The festival is very crowded and consists in wandering around, giving each other eggs, going to cider houses and folixa.