This eminently religious conclusion perceived importance throughout the six centuries of its existence. More rises will be as from the Eighties when cobras, in May 1995 while being recognized by the Parliament of Estrémadure like Tourist Festivity of Interest. To this recognition one adds the interest that causes this festivity out of our borders. Is such surge of tourists whom the hotels hang the poster of the complete ones.
The Easter of Caceres lasts eight days, where there are 18 processions, which take to share some 12 brotherhoods or fraternities trained by roughly some 15.000 citizens.
During this week the brotherhoods cacereños present a very particular vision to us Passion, the Death and the Resurrection of Jesus-Christ. The admirable images, some of they of large works of art traverse with "shoulders" of the brotherhoods the streets and the places of the monumental zone of Cáceres. It is this course that which prints a special stamp with these processions and obviously, this Holy Week.
The most interesting moments of these processions are: entries and exits of the images of the churches in front of waiting of people. The Easter of Cáceres begins Sunday of Branches with the procession of knowledge like "step" of the "Burrina" and finishes with the procession of the Meeting Sunday of Resurrection.
Between the many ones you ravel processional that one distributes throughout these eight days should not be lost that which carries out the Fraternity of Christ Black (century XV). This one takes place holy Wednesday at the 24 hours with exit of Concatedral de Sta. María. It acts of a funeral procession formed by 50 brotherhoods dressed with tunics and hoods black and the "step" of the Black Christ. This procession traverses the medieval enclosure with the only music a shears and of a disturbed drinking cup. For this reason it is also known like the "Procession of Silence" and because many the public which gathers in the streets keeps a respectful silence with its step.
There is a procession called Magna which is carried out only one time each 5 years, in it take to share all the brotherhoods and including some arrivals of outside.
Undoubtedly, this one a great religious, artistic and cultural event of Cáceres will leave deafened the visitor, because it will be able to enjoy a religious event, already known, but in an incomparable scene: the medieval city, declared by UNESCO World Heritage City.
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