Europe is a country known around the world for its festivals and celebrations.. Holy Week is, perhaps along with that of San Fermines, one of the most popular festivities, especially because, unlike the latter, it is not concentrated in a single place.
Perhaps the best-known Holy Week is Andalusian.with Seville and Malaga as the biggest representatives, but there are many other places, inside and outside this community, that allow you to enjoy the marches and marches of this massive event.
Navigating your way through the crowds, especially in the better-known cities, is difficult. More and more people are turning to apps that replace old paper routes, because apps like Google Maps have replaced maps. Each large city has its own, even if some, like the two Andalusian cities mentioned, have several.
The penitent
It is one of the best known and most used applications in the two cities where it is present, Malaga and Seville, two of the Spanish capitals where Holy Week is most experienced. El Penitente not only offers information on the stages of these cities, but also allows some personalization and, above all, real-time monitoring.
In this way it is possible to know the exact position of a step, in case we want to go see it, find out if there have been delays or problems and, finally, be informed of the processions we choose. It also allows you to have real-time photographs of the main processions and even an option called “My Planning” to organize your Holy Week easily and quickly.
El Penitente is a free app that includes ads for monetization. It allows you to configure notifications to only receive those from the city we choose, as well as from brotherhoods or even downloaded photographs. There is a Premium subscription to remove all advertising from News and Photos, in addition to randomly reducing 50% of the rest of the advertising.
Holy Week Jaen
Jaén is another Andalusian city in which Holy Week is an important event and attracts crowds of tourists and locals. The Jaén Holy Week application allows you to follow the news and itineraries of the brotherhoods and brotherhoods of the capital Jaén. Furthermore, allows you to follow the real GPS position of each Brotherhood live twice, being able to choose the leading cross and the last of the steps, to know the space occupied by the brotherhood in the street.
It also has real-time notifications on decisions made by the fraternities as well as updated information on departure time delays or itinerary changes. It also has a mobile guide to the city’s brotherhoods, very complete, with information on the city’s brotherhoods, from the shield to the imagery. This application is free and is made by the religious portal Pasionenjaen, which Live broadcast of Holy Week 2024 including broadcasts of past Holy Weeks and latest proclamations.
guide cross
Cruz de Guía is the Holy Week application of Radio Seville. In this application you can access information about the brotherhoods of Seville such as the year of foundation, the number of Nazarenes, vestments, coat of arms, parish, but also routes and maps of each brotherhood. Produced by a media, this application provides access to content from Cruz de Guía TV, the Easter video channel of Radio Sevilla.
In addition, it has up-to-date information about Holy Week in the Andalusian capital, such as the latest news, weather, cancellations or detours, as well as monitoring Radio Seville broadcasts.
Other cities
There are processions in most towns in Europe, although the main ones are those mentioned above. However, cities like Almería also have applications for their processions, such as the Almería Holy Week Guide, already updated for this year 2024. Another city with its own application is Palencia, which has seen its celebration declared of tourist interest in 2012. International. Something similar happened in Linares, which was declared a Festival of National Tourist Interest of Andalusia.
There are also applications in cities like Zamora or Valladolid, and in other small towns in Andalusia like Cabra, in Córdoba. Zaragoza Tourism and the Coordination of the Brotherhoods of Holy Week of Zaragoza have created an application to follow the stages and events of the Aragonese city. The same thing happens in San Fernando, a popular town in Cádiz with a great tradition this week. And Cádiz, the provincial capital, also has its own app.
Holy Week Walks
Not all applications concern processions and their routes. This one, for example, focuses on the music of this holiday. With a very simple interface, Easter Marches allow you to listen and download more than 100 titles in high quality for free, in mp3 format.
In addition, it has options to be able to share processional marches via applications such as Whatsapp. You can even create new lists with your favorite Easter marches and access them whenever you want. The update is weekly, with new equipment. In this case, the application is free, without payments or in-app purchases.
Continuous processions
If you can’t attend the processions in person, there are ways to watch them on television. One of the perfect apps for this is NefliCofrades, which Thanks to a subscription you have access to a catalog of more than 1000 scenes from Holy Week in Seville high quality from 1992 to the present.
This application allows you to send videos to a Chromecast, as well as putting videos in a playlist. It also allows you to mark the ones you like the most as favorites or search for scenes by year or brotherhood. Finally, it has another feature that allows play a random videowhich will be used to discover scenes that we did not know.
Other apps
To these applications, which are the main ones, you can add others related to these holidays but which offer a different approach. One example is Your Brotherhood, a game that lets you manage your own Holy Week brotherhood. A variation of the typical resource management game.
And so as not to get bored while waiting for our favorite stage to arrive, a good option is Quiz Cofrade, a kind of quiz that allows us to test our knowledge about Holy Week. Of course, the focus is on the Seville processions.
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