Castile does Holy Week quietly. Valladolid's processions carry works by Gregorio Fernández, Juan de Juni and Alonso Berruguete — the finest polychrome religious sculpture in Spain, kept the rest of the year in the National Sculpture Museum and brought out to be carried through the streets. There is no music to speak of, no flowers, and the crowd does not applaud.
The Procesión General de la Sagrada Pasión del Redentor on Good Friday afternoon brings around thirty of these sculptures out together, which is effectively a museum walking through a city.
No attendance figure is recorded here in this pass.
Holy Week moves with Easter. Valladolid in early spring is cold and dry, the processions run on time, and the whole thing is a deliberate counterpoint to the Andalusian week — worth seeing by anyone who thinks they already know what Semana Santa is.
PlanningEaster-linked. The contrast with Andalusia is the point — no music, no flowers, no acclamation.