What Happens during Holy Week?
For three days at Easter the entire city performs one huge passion play. The people dress up as biblical characters and join the dramatic daily procession through the streets. The streets themselves are decked out with alfombras, intricate patterned carpets of coloured sawdust and flowers which can take several people as long as twelve hour to make, and which the entire procession tramples through and utterly destroys. What’s the history of Holy Week? Holy Week is celebrated at Easter, when Christians everywhere commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. When the Spanish came to South & Central America they imposed the Catholic religion on the indigenous population. The tradition of the flower carpets originated in the 16th century when carpets of pine needles and flowers were used for processions.
