Holy Week is a period of reflection, deep-rooted traditions, religion, and culture. From our processional steps to the emotion of each brotherhood and confraternity, we are reminded of the great historical and artistic value that this solemn celebration holds, the devotion, and the vast heritage that is born from our land.
During these days, the measured steps of the confraternities will resonate in Badajoz, allowing us to admire the images that parade through our streets and feel the emotion that each one evokes.
Our Holy Week is a true treasure where faith, traditions, and sacred art intertwine, but beyond its religious character, this time also serves as a meeting with tradition and togetherness. It is an opportunity to get to know Badajoz in depth, to enjoy the solemnity of its streets, the typical gastronomy, to share moments with those around us, and to participate in the various cultural and leisure activities that take place during these days.
I want to express my deepest gratitude to all those who work throughout the year to make our Holy Week a bigger celebration each time, with which we now aspire more than ever to achieve International Tourist Interest.
It is you, the members of the brotherhoods, the penitents, the foremen, the costaleros, and the volunteers, who, with your dedication, manage to grow this tradition and keep it alive. I would also like to thank all those people and entities, believers or not, who make it possible and visit us at this time.
May this Holy Week be a time of renewal, of encountering our traditions, and of solidarity among all neighbors, and may the incense, the candles, the saetas, and each of the processional steps bring us closer to this festivity.
Ignacio Gragera
Mayor of Badajoz
