Take 1: Antigua
Semana Santa, also known as Holy Week, is the week before Easter. The week leading up to Easter is filled with processions. During the processions men dress in purple robes and women dress in black and white and they walk through town carrying statues of Jesus on floats or wooden planks. Before the processions occur men, women and children spend hours making the most intricate and beautiful alfrombras (carpets) for the processions to walk over. The alfrombras are made out of flowers, straw, leaves, fruit, vegetables, and sawdust and the cover the streets throughout the city during Holy Week. The purpose of the alfombras are to welcome Jesus to town similar to when people laid palm leaves and their cloaks on the ground to welcome him years ago.
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| Alfrombra made of grass, hay, and flowers! |
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| Colorful sawdust alfombra. |
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| More sawdust alfombras! |
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| Procession in Antigua--little boy leading the way. |
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Procession walking through Antigua-everyone
dressed in purple. |
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| The float that took 40 men to carry through the streets. |
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Procession!
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