by Maria Comellas What is Holy Week
La eastern It is the Catholic holiday celebrated every year in which the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth is remembered. Spain is one of the countries in the world where this celebration is experienced most intensely. It begins with Palm Sunday and ends on Easter Sunday, lasting a total of 8 days. Each year the date of the festival varies (it is between March and April depending on each year) since it depends on the lunar calendar. In eastern The processions and representations of the Passion of Jesus Christ stand out.
Hotels, apartments and campsites during Holy Week 2018
La Semana Santa 2018 in Spain it is from Sunday Winners will be announced in March (Palm Sunday) to Sunday April 1 (Easter Sunday). Coma-ruga is one of the best choices if you want to spend the Holy Week on the Costa Dorada from Tarragona.
In Comarruga you will find numerous quality accommodations where you can spend your Semana Semana holidays. It has Hotels of all prices, camping and apartments for rent, we offer you a directory of accommodation in Coma-ruga for Holy Week. On the one hand, you can consult our Hotel list and if you want to rent an apartment we also have one list of real estate agencies.
History of Holy Week in Comaruga
La Holy Week in Coma-ruga It is celebrated in a more recreational and holiday way than in a religious way. It is in the municipality of El Vendrell, to which Coma-ruga belongs, where the best-known liturgical celebrations of the region take place. eastern in this town of the Costa Dorada from Tarragona.
Stands out in the events of eastern in El Vendrell the Fervorous and Humble Brotherhood and Brotherhood of Nazarenes of Nuestro Padre Jesús de las Penas in their arrest, Nuestra Señora Del Consuelo and Señora Santa Ana. In 2009 they organized a charity festival, pro-restoration of their titular images, the which had been desecrated in their parish headquarters last year.
Entities from El Vendrell collaborated in the event, such as the Andalusian and Extremaduran Song and Dance groups and the Parish Orfeón.
In an attempt to promote the religious celebration of the Holy Week in Coma-ruga, some members of the well-known Brotherhood 15+1 of Hospitalet who spent their holidays in the town tried to organize a procession similar to the one in Barcelona, however, because these events must be prepared for a good part of the year, the tourist characteristics of the local population made the implementation of this very complicated. initiative.
The Brotherhood of Las Penas de El Vendrell was founded in 1991 by a group of emigrants strongly rooted in their place of reception, El Vendrell, and their parish of Sant Salvador, with the concern of organizing a brotherhood but in the style that they had known in their homeland as in the case mentioned above.
On July 8, 1991, the Archbishopric of Tarragona gave its approval to the Rules and the first Government Board. Afterwards, the members of the brotherhood traveled to Seville to order the Titular Images, a Captive Lord and a Sorrowful Virgin, the belongings, the powers of Our Lord and the crown of the Holy Virgin, as well as a tunic for the Lord and a skirt and a cloak for the Virgin.
Later the brotherhood acquired a canopy passage and on Palm Sunday, April 12, 1992, the Brotherhood held its first season of penance, an event that has since been marked in the festival calendar of El Vendrell. Today it has about 400 brothers completely rooted in El Vendrell and others belonging to different parts of Spain.
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The Brotherhood carries out a penance station on Palm Sunday from the Church of Sant Salvador through the streets of the town, the Tancat neighborhood and through Portal, Cometa and Mar streets, already in its collection. The procession is made up of approximately 100 Nazarenes and two groups of costalero brothers, all of them accompanied by musical bands such as the Muchachos de Consolación Musical Group of Utrera, the Friends of Music Association of Estepa, the Buena Muerte Musical Group of Linares, the Association Musical Daliense, the Expiración Musical Group of Salamanca..., and thus a large number of bands and musical groups until the moment when the Virgen del Consuelo Musical Group itself was created. The band is made up of 50 members who accompany Nuestro Padre Jesús de las Penas through the streets of Vendrell.
The Brotherhood was named an honorary member of the Council of Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods of the city of Utrera, the only case outside of it. In addition, the corporation is twinned with the Brotherhood of the Quinta Angustia of Utrera (Seville) and awarded the gold and diamond medal to the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Consolation, patron saint of Utrera. Furthermore, in an extraordinary meeting it was decided to name the Civil Guard as Honorary Brother, with the Captain General of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands attending the event, receiving for his part the highest award granted by the Civil Guard, the gala tricorne.
