This is Lent in towns in Córdoba: best activities

With a trip through the towns of Andalusia in the Paths of Passion route You can see that the “feeling” that characterizes the Easter celebrations It extends far beyond this festive season.

Furthermore, during the Lenten season, the weeks preceding the Easter holidays, there are many events and celebrations that take place in these towns in Andalusia, and they become a reason to visit them.

La Lent It is the prelude to the eastern, specifically the 40 days preceding the Easter holiday.

At this time you can see parades of brotherhoods and groups with their music bands, listen miserers and arrows in churches, or attending concerts Holy music.

On a route through Andalusia at this time you will be able to see the beautiful corners of these white townsWith its palatial houses and cultural heritageas castles e churches.

But you also have the opportunity to to visit museums that show artistic works and objects that star in the Holy Week and Lent.

And you can also see how a large part of the population of these towns is immersed in Holy Week preparation, since the imaginary craftsmen that carve the figures, like Fernando Cobo in Priego de Córdoba.

Or the goldsmith artisans that Lucena They work on gold and silver objects from brother crafts.

Or the artisans of candle workshop in Cabra that since the mid-18th century and throughout the year they have been dedicated to making the candles that will then illuminate the processions.

Best Lent activities in towns in Córdoba

Below I am going to highlight some of the Lent activities in towns of Córdoba, and museums that you can visit during said journey along the Paths of Passion.

Roman Saturdays in Puente Genil in Córdoba

After Ash Wednesday, during the seven Saturdays of the weeks of Lent in the Cordoba town of Puente Genil take place Roman Saturdays.

I visited this town many years ago, and it is famous for its tradition as a producer of quince paste.

En Lent every Saturday at 10 pm the main Holy Week corporation, the Romans, begins a parade through the streets of the town, accompanied by its musical band, on a climb to the church of Jesus Nazarene, In the Calvary Square.

The corporation of the Ataos, and together they sing misereres and saetas.

Brothers of the Aurora in Priego de Córdoba

in the pretty town of Priego de Córdoba, in this time of Lent during every early morning from Saturday to Sunday, from 1 in the morning, the Brothers of the Dawn they start from the Church of the Dawn and walk through the streets of the town to the center King's Fountain Square.

During this tour the members of this brotherhood sing a traditional rosary.

It should also be noted that in the St. Peter's Church you can see a small brother art museum where the artistic objects used by one of the brotherhoods in the Holy Week processions are displayed.

Misereres in Baena in Córdoba

In the Cordoba town of Baena, the characteristic celebration of Lent are miserers that are sung every Friday night by the brothers of the different brotherhoods of the “white-tailed jews"And"black-tailed Jews".

The celebration begins with the parades that from the Constitution Plaza They are carried out through the streets of the town sounding their thunderous drums.

These parades end in the churches of their respective brotherhoods, such as that of San Francisco, where the typical saetas sing in the misereres.

Lucentine Santeria Museum in Lucena

En Lucena during the Lent season…and throughout the year, you can visit the museum of Santería Lucentina, located in the basement of the church of San Pedro Mártir.

There you have a large exhibition that shows the Holy Week traditions in LucenaKnown as the Santeria, a name that refers to the costaleros (santeros).

Highlights in this museum are the thrones of the six steps of the Venerable Archconfraternity of Our Father Jesus, as well as the curious procession of children's processions.

You can also visit the Brotherhood House of the Love and Peace Brotherhood, which has its own museum with samples of sacred art and belongings of the Brotherhood.

In this Cordoban town they concentrate goldsmith workshops in which most of their work is to make metalwork objects for brotherhoods in Andalusia.