Semana Santa de Jerez

Holy Week in Jerez de la Frontera is one of the five great Andalusian Passionist celebrations and is the splendid and surprising reflection of a fervent, religious (in its own way), cultured and lively society, which evokes a dream aesthetic, like the one captured Juan José Serrano from Avila or Eduardo Pereiras Hurtado from Arcana, but without being fossilized in those ancient sepia images. The main festival knew the austere, mystical and baroque, romantic, popular and flamenco influences, and it overcame the sociopolitical crises; It flourished in the years of the Primo-Riverista Belle Époque and its National-Catholic sequel; it adapted to the modern flower power that arrived at the rhythm of folk, pop and rock and roll, or it exploded into a global and refined model, with a theatrical, cinematographic and television language. It is a Holy Week of the first phenomenological and patrimonial level, revalued, traditional and innovative, with selected adhesions and creativity, and with a proud, challenging and confident look at its future.