Again I´ll suggest, read the first of the Semana Santa postings: Semana Santa: something else again! to get an understanding of what is happening.
This was a slightly, only just, smaller procession in that there was only two tronos: El Señor del Rescate and the Nuestra Señora la Virgen de la Piedad.
Bands are a big opening item.
There was the Purple KKK (I should probably stop calling them that).
... and then the Reds.
Just one last time: KKKKK - Kindly KKK with Kid.
And some scary hooded jokers.
Teenage girls play their part. All quite amazing. I wonder if their parents have the major say in this.
El Señor del Rescate
Not hooded, but nearly as scary ...
Be warned girls, you've had a glimpse of what grandma has turned out like.
Members of the congregation of Iglesia de la Santisima Trinidad join in behind the trono. You will notice it is mostly women. The men are carrying tronos, or are hooded carrying crosses. But in the case of the older guys they are there in spirit, taking up a position in a bar having una or dos cerveza, y un surtido de las tapas (one or two beers, and an assortment of tapas), smoking cigarettes like mad things, and raising a glass as the procession, and their wife, passes.
Nuestra Señora la Virgen de la Piedad
That's three down: four to go.
Mad
aka Max
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