Mona de Pascua is a perfect dish to celebrate. This day brings the end to sorrow and Lent-now it's time for a feast for your soul and body. Easter SundayĮaster Sunday is the day of festive masses and more religious processions with the center of activities located at Barcelona Cathedral. Soon, they introduced their native traditions to the neighborhood. In the 1960s, it became home to many people who came to Barcelona from the southern region looking for work. For the utmost experience, you should visit the nearby town of L’Hospitalet. Numerous towns across Catalonia host Holy Week processions. Generally, Semana Santa in Barcelona is quite moderate in comparison to other places in Spain like the region of Andalusia. Holy Week in L’Hospitalet and across Catalonia Just don't confuse it for the Sagrada Família, as it's not a cathedral but a Basilica. The best place to witness Good Friday processions is around Barcelona Cathedral - between 4 and 11 pm there are usually lots of activities. Hundreds of devotees follow the procession. Heavy floats with religious figures are paraded through the streets. Spanish style processions feature the members of fraternities and religious societies dressed in long robes with pointed hoods and two holes for eyes.

Good Friday is the second big day of the Holy Week. The palms are burnt, and the ashes are used by priests to draw a cross on people's foreheads to mark the start of the Lent. Traditionally these palms are blessed by a priest and afterwards stored at home for almost a year till the next-year Lenten season. In Barcelona, boys and girls receive the elaborate palm leaves from their godparents-boys get the tall 'palmónes' and girls receive woven 'palmas.' Everyone can buy one at the markets around Barcelona Cathedral, near the Sagrada Familia or La Rambla. It's done in memory of the greeting Jesus received on his entry to Jerusalem, a week before his death. This day is marked with a procession of people holding palm leaves.

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