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Subject: [OM] IMG: Good Friday in Alicante
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 20:43:03 +0200
I apologise if I am spamming you with images, but it has just been a 
photographically rich couple of weeks. Easter is a big deal here in Spain, for 
many reasons: several days off (Friday and Monday are holidays here), the 
traditional onset of beach weather in this part of the country, and of course 
the religious significance. There are processions every day beginning with Palm 
Sunday and ending Easter Sunday. In previous years, I have gone to the grand 
finale on Sunday, but this year I decided to go to the Good Friday procession 
which tends to me more somber than the Sunday one. There were actually four 
different processions yesterday. The one I chose was Nuestra Señora de la 
Soledad, starting around 8:30 pm from one of the Alicante’s two main churches, 
Basílica de Santa Maria, and lasting for 3 hours or so. I just hung around for 
the beginning, and the passage through a cozy little square a couple of hundred 
metres down the road. This little gallery of 33 images will give you an idea of 
what it looks like in our part of Spain:

http://www.greatpix.eu/Viernes-Santo-2017/

I always find it deliciously ironic that I, an agnostic Jew, go to see these 
processions every year while my Catholic wife stays at home—she dislikes big 
crowds.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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