Holy Week in Valladolid

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Holy Week in Valladolid
Procession in Plaza Mayor
Official name	Semana Santa de Valladolid
Observed by	Valladolid, Spain
Type	Religious, Historical, Cultural
Significance	Commemoration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus
Celebrations	Processions
Begins	Palm Sunday
Ends	Easter Sunday
2023 date	April 2 - April 9
2024 date	March 24 - March 31
2025 date	April 13 - April 20
2026 date	March 29 - April 5
Frequency	Annual

The Holy Week in Valladolid is one of the main tourist attractions, and cultural and religious events of Valladolid and the surrounding province during Holy Week in Spain. It boasts of renowned polychrome sculptures, created mainly by sculptors such as Juan de Juni and Gregorio Fernández,^[1] who were active when the city served as the imperial court. The city's National Sculpture Museum has a total of 42 images (distributed in the corresponding pasos) for the processions.^[2] The Holy Week in Valladolid is known to depict the Passion with great fidelity, rigor and detail.^[3]

In addition to the artistic and catechetical (instructional) value of its religious imagery, the Week is characterized by devotion, sobriety, silence^[4] and respect for the brotherhoods and the public, and by unique acts such as the "General Procession of the Sacred Passion of the Redeemer"^[5] and "Sermon of the Seven Words" in the Plaza Mayor, which recalls the autos de fé (ritual of public penance) of the 16th century. For these reasons, this celebration was declared a Fiesta of International Tourist Interest in 1980 (the first Holy Week celebration in Spain to have such a designation), and in 2014 work began to have it recognized as a representation of intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.^[6]