Holy Week is commemorated each year in

Santa Cruz de La Palma Santa Cruz de la Palma (Spanish for ''Holy Cross of La Palma'') is a city and a municipality on the east coast of the island of La Palma in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the Canary Islands. Santa Cruz de la Palma is the second-largest ...

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, by processions marking the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is one of the oldest festivities in the island of La Palma, and is the most significant public religious event that takes place in the city, except for the Lustral Festivity of the '' Bajada de la Virgen''. In 2014 it was declared a Fiesta of Tourist Interest in the Canary Islands."Holy Week", April 18 2017
''Visita Santa Cruz de la Palma''.

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In addition to preserving some traditional rites, the event incorporates others of recent creation. It is noted for the rigorous chronology observed in all processions, in which the order narrated in the Bible is followed, and for the antiquity and variety of the musical genres that are performed during the processions. Another feature of interest is the quality of its sculpted imagery, with carvings from the ancient Spanish provinces of the Netherlands,

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, the eighteenth-century Sevillian school, nineteenth-century neoclassicism – with the presence of some of the best works by Canary Islands sculptor

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– and the most brilliant periods of local sculpture. The urban setting of Santa Cruz de La Palma, through which most of the processions take place, was declared ''

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'' (Historic-Artistic Grouping) in 1975.

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* * * * {{cite book , last=Rodríguez-Lewis , first= Juan José , title= La Ciudad y la Pasión: la Semana Santa de Santa Cruz de La Palma durante los siglos XIX y XX , publisher= Cartas Diferentes Ediciones , year=2016 , isbn= 9788494357282 , language= es Holy Week in Spain La Palma Culture of the Canary Islands

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