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Local Festivals

There are two emblematic festivals internationally renowned Seville held during spring are Easter and the April Fair. It is also very popular among citizens Seville attend Rocio pilgrimage that is held every year in the Sanctuary of the Virgen del Rocío located in the town of Almonte, in the province of Huelva, and one of the big days for Seville , is the day of Corpus Christi.
Easter week
The great strength of Seville, one of the most famous images of the Holy Week in Seville.
The celebration of the various events that take place during Easter become one of the cultural, religious and artistic most important place in the city. The Holy Week celebrations in this city are among the most famous in Spain and have international resonance in the Catholic world, making them a major tourist attraction. Easter is considered Tourist Festival of National and International.
The processions of Holy Week are centuries of evolution forms, ways and means of the fraternities and sororities composed of diverse groups of people of various kinds labor or other features where multiple factors influenced both religious, artistic, social and historical . The season of penance or processional is the main external worship of the corporations doing the Brotherhoods. The week runs from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, every day procesionando images representing the Passion of Christ in its entirety adding 60 sororities, highlighting the Great Power, and Esperanza Macarena Esperanza de Triana and others.
There is a General Council brotherhoods, whose members are elected every four years by the Elder Brothers of the various guilds, which is responsible for organizing the Easter and streamline procedures and agreements with official institutions and everything related to the Official.
There is a whole series of items related to Holy Week in Seville as the Steps, the fraternities and sororities, the Nazarenes, the bearers and arrows.
April Fair
It is known as Feria de Abril to one of the festivals that take place in the spring, particularly in April. The fair takes place in the neighborhood of Los Remedios and is considered Tourist Festival national, and since 1965, as International.
The Real de la Feria, consists of 24 blocks, has a surface area of ​​about 450,000 m2. that sit in booths 1047, with dimensions varying from one to another with a road network composed of Real fifteen streets with names of fighters who have been intimately linked to the city. This part of campus is equipped with sufficient infrastructure to solve the problems of water supply, sewerage and electricity demanded by each of the booths implanted.
Attached to the Real de la Feria, facilities include an amusement park, with about 400 different attractions, this park is ephemeral and is known as Elm Street. In the municipal marquee is where you perform the activities of City Protocol and each District has a booth for public use, because access to the booths in most of them is limited to members of the same.
The origins of the April Fair dates back to 1846 when Narciso Bonaplata, of Catalan origin, and José María de Ybarra, of Basque origin, drafted a proposal that led to the City of Seville. In March 1847, Queen Elizabeth II granted the privilege of fair Sevilla. Some characteristic features of the April Fair are: short dresses, flamenco dresses, flamenco dancers, horses and carriages, drinks (like the typical fine wine, chamomile and modern rebujito), food (very typical cured ham, and more recently the fried fish, especially on the night of "alumbrao"), Elm Street, bullfights, fireworks.


Corpus Christi
The Corpus Christi of Seville is one of the most important celebrations in Seville. It takes place next Thursday the eighth Sunday after Easter. That day the city is decked out in their best clothes and makes for a day all Seville brotherhoods (whether of glory or sacramental penitential) are united in the same procession. The procession consists of nine steps (including Seville are saints, patrons of the city, the Holy Thorn and custody with the body of Christ) and several social representations, ecclesiastical, military and civic. It's a party considered of national interest.
Triana Bridge during the candle lit Santa Ana
Summer Festival held from 21 to 26 July, which originated in the late thirteenth century, during the celebration of the feast of Santiago and Santa Ana and held in the district of Triana. La Vela de Santa Ana is from an ancient pilgrimage that took place at the Royal Parish of Santa Ana, and its main event, the procession. During this unique week-long event can find streets decorated with lanterns, booths, Potters Market, live entertainment, trophies and various sporting events and the famous game of Cockaigne, where young people try to prove their ability to try to catch a flag on the end of a stick placed horizontally smeared grease on the river.
Bullring of the Royal Cavalry of Seville.
The Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza de Sevilla Cavalry is one of the oldest bullrings in Spain. It is the seat of the bullfights that take place in the city, having special relevance for the fans that are held during the April Fair. It is considered one of the tourist attractions of the city's most popular and is among the most visited monuments in the same. The bullring, with capacity for 12,500 villages, 231 is owned by the aristocratic corporation based in Seville which is called. The bullring was begun in 1749 to replace the rectangular bullring located in the place and its construction took many years, as it was doing in phases. In 1765 the façade was constructed inside the square called Palco del Príncipe, which consists of two bodies: the gateway to the square, leaving the triumphant bullfighters, and the box itself, exclusive use of the Royal Family . Its construction was completed in 1881.233 Between 1914 and 1915, under the direction of Seville architect Aníbal González, was amended by replacing stone laying another brick with a gentler slope.
In the vicinity of the square are statues of Seville matadors who have succeeded in it, the most important being the dedicated right-hander Curro Romero. The Bullfighting Museum of the Royal Cavalry, opened in 1989, is housed under the stands of the bullring, where a collection of paintings, bullfighting posters, photos, costumes, bronzes, sculptures and tiles. The latter include the works of Mariano Benlliure and busts of legendary bullfighter Curro Cúchares, Pepe-Hillo o Espartero.
In relation to bullfighting included the recent emergence of civic movements antibullfighting of significant importance in the city, which, as in other Andalusian cities, organized regular demonstrations against this show coinciding with the celebration of runs.