Holy Week 2022

What is it? Where is it? Why is it?

Chocolate “Nazarenos” at La Campana, Seville’s iconic pastry shop. Author photo

Over the next seven days, I shall provide blow-by-blow reporting on the Semana Santa (Holy Week) festivities taking place in Seville, Andalusia, in the south of Spain.

Each day, a new article will be posted to Dispatches from the Mediterranean. At the end of this essay, I will embed a link to each day’s report