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Palm Sunday

The floats of the Holy Supper and Our Lady of La Victoria leave the church of Santo Domingo and return to it through the streets of Realejo.
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Granada is bedecked with palm leaves and olive branches to waken with the first roll of drums and welcome the eight significant days of the Passion, Death and Resurrection that are still to come. The procession always starts at 17:00. Penitents dressed in blue and white gowns fill the streets, which appear, if this is even possible, to be more jam-packed every year.

Just before the float leaves the church on Palm Sunday, a customary ritual takes place. The chief steward of the last Passion Brotherhood of the previous year (Santa María de la Alhambra), gives the "key" to open the current year's Station of the Cross to the first Brotherhood of the new year. When the Stations of the Cross end on Holy Saturday, it is the La Boriquilla Brotherhood who returns the "key" to the brothers of Santa María de la Alhambra, who keep it until the following year.

 

Brotherhoods that hold their processions on Palm Sunday, by order of departure from their churches:

- La Borriquilla Brotherhood

- La Santa Cruz Brotherhood

- Las Maravillas Brotherhood 

- El Despojado Brotherhood

- El Cautivo Brotherhood 

 

Further information at Royal Federation of Brotherhoods and Confraternities of Granada