Spain is getting ready for one of its most revered holiday periods of the year: Easter Week, which means thousands of colorful and noisy religious street processions that draw multitudes onto the streets to watch. Know more:
ELCHE, Spain—Spain is getting ready for one of its most revered holiday periods of the year: Easter Week, which means thousands of colorful and noisy religious street processions that draw multitudes onto the streets to watch.
While the processions take place over just a handful of days, preparations are a year-round affair and involve a wide range of small, sometimes family-run businesses. “It’s yearlong preparation,” says Paqui Serrano, an artisan palm leaf bouquet-maker in Elche, southeast Spain, the heart of Spain’s palm tree agriculture.
Elche traditionally sends such bouquets to public figures. This year, the recipients included Pope Francis and Spain’s Queen Letizia. “As you can see, the machines and tools are our hands, needles and scissors, and it can be stressful,” Serrano explained. “But when you are working at what you like, well, it can almost serve as a therapy because it relaxes you a lot.”
He says the task of carrying the floats has varied little in the brotherhood’s 83 years of existence.
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