{"id":7381,"date":"2021-08-20T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/the-pasos-of-holy-week-in-seville\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:32","slug":"the-pasos-of-holy-week-in-seville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-holy-week-of-seville\/the-pasos-of-holy-week-in-seville\/","title":{"rendered":"The pasos of Holy Week in Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The pasos of Holy Week in Seville <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Holy Week in Seville is famous for its beautiful and striking statues of Christ and Our Lady of Sorrows carried in procession by the confraternities. In Spain, these images placed on chariots or finely decorated wooden supports, are the famous <em>pasos<\/em> (which in M\u00e1laga take the name of <em>tronos<\/em> and that in Italy are called <em>Vare<\/em> or <em>Misteri<\/em>). The term <em>paso<\/em> indicates, by extension, as the supporting structure, as the processional &#8220;machine&#8221; as a whole. Each Holy Week confraternity in Seville is carried in procession by a minimum of one to a maximum of three <em>pasos<\/em>, the first two are devoted to Christ, the other to the Virgin Mary (called <em>paso de palio<\/em>, named after the imposing canopy above the effigy of the Suffering Virgin).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <em>pasos<\/em> of Seville are large, up to 2.50 metres wide and 3.5 to 5 metres long. Each <em>paso<\/em> consists of a chariot (<em>parihuela<\/em>), covered by a velvet fabric. The <em>parihuela<\/em> rests on a carved wooden base (often in Baroque style), festooned with flowers, lanterns and torches and candlesticks. On this processional &#8220;machine&#8221; there are statues or statuary groups (<em>las im\u00e1genes<\/em>), depicting Christ, a scene from his Passion (also known as <em>Misterio<\/em>), or an effigy of Our Lady of Sorrows. Most <em>im\u00e1genes<\/em> have been built over the last three centuries. Some of them, however, date back to the fifteenth century. Not infrequently, the <em>cofrad\u00edas<\/em> that established themselves in relatively recent times have inherited a lot of old images, in some cases dating back to the Baroque.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-holy-week-of-seville\/\" title=\"The Holy Week of Seville\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;back to The Holy Week of Seville<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pasos of Holy Week in Seville Holy Week in Seville is famous for its beautiful and striking statues of Christ and Our Lady of Sorrows carried in procession by the confraternities. In Spain, these images placed on chariots or finely decorated wooden supports, are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6573,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7381","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11719,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7381\/revisions\/11719"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}