DavidThe apartment we hired in Zaragoza is a good place to stay for the Passion Week parades. Unless you want peace and quiet...
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These parades of brotherhoods date back to the Flagellantes, who did public shows of penance in response to the Black Death. Partly because the church didn't like them, they often hide their faces.
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The cone hat was used by the Spanish Inquisition to mark a public humiliation, so in time the brotherhoods used it as a symbol of humility and penance. This is the origin of the rather sinister hoods they wear, called 'capirotes'.
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#zaragoza #capirote #Easter #easterparades #pascua #passionweek #capirotes
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These parades of brotherhoods date back to the Flagellantes, who did public shows of penance in response to the Black Death. Partly because the church didn't like them, they often hide their faces.
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The cone hat was used by the Spanish Inquisition to mark a public humiliation, so in time the brotherhoods used it as a symbol of humility and penance. This is the origin of the rather sinister hoods they wear, called 'capirotes'.
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#zaragoza #capirote #Easter #easterparades #pascua #passionweek #capirotes
