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On January 2 is the commemoration of the conquest of Granada, which was the last Muslim stronghold on the peninsula by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. On the Day of the Assumption is held official events at the Chapel Royal and at City Hall. Is the party more representative of how much historical character in the city.
recalls the day when the Catholic Kings, after rigorous Capitulaciones signed in nearby Santa Fe on 25 November 1491, took possession of the Alhambra.
At dawn on January 2, 1492, and in the Hall of the Tower of Comares, Boabdil gave the keys of the Alhambra at Cardenas Gutierrez. Once the doors open, Iñigo López de Mendoza, Count of Tendilla, entered the front of a large military parade. Then the confessor of Queen Isabel, Fray Hernando de Talavera, said the first mass and raised the cross and the royal banner of Castile in the Torre de la Vela.
Today, the celebration begins in the Chapel Royal with a religious function and tremoleo the Banner, there is preserved. Then we organize a civic-religious procession that moves the pendant to the main balcony of City Hall where the youngest councilman waving back three times, repeating the protocol formula: Spain, Castilla, Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella Don Fernando ".
Dating from the late nineteenth century and is the oldest in Spain. It is a procession that symbolizes the arrival in the city of their Majesties the Kings.
Part of Argüeta López Rector Street and ends at the Plaza del Carmen, in City Hall. The figures of the Kings Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar often usually "embodied" by personalities from public life Granada and Andalusia.
Since 1982 joined the parade of characters and world of circus animals. The procession could not be more heterogeneous and encompasses both the traditional camel and horse as different floats of endless rain down candy and goodies along the whole route.
February 1. Pilgrimage, Sunday closest to February 1.
It is traditional on a pilgrimage to visit the catacombs and the Monastery of Sacromonte.
Is the patron of the city, but we must clarify that this day is not party. When they do is celebrated the first Sunday in February, the day is a pilgrimage that goes up to the Sacromonte where are the catacombs of the saint.
The story goes that St. Cecilia was one of the three envoys, the other two were Isio and Tesifón, for San Pedro to Spain for their evangelization.
When they were gathered in the catacombs of this mountain with nine other priests were surprised by the Romans and martyred.
His disciples wrote the story in a lead sheet and hid between two stones, one white and one black, who were thrown into the river Darro. Found in 1595, were sent to Rome, which houses the original, so that they confirm their authenticity.
From that date, built an abbey on the catacombs and a collegiate church. During the procession, the young women of marriageable age to touch the white stone if you want to get husband to touch the other promises to the contrary. So you know, the choice is yours.
St. Cecilia is the patron saint of Granada and the pilgrimage dates back to 1599, a plague swept Granada and the tradition that went off by invoking the saint.
This pilgrimage takes place in the Bario del Sacromonte, around the Abbey which receives the same name. The landscape, given its cave houses and vegetation give a dramatic character. Around this day there are acts of civil, military and church and has held a solemn mass solar offering.
The pilgrimage was created by the City, so this has a fundamental role. One of the most popular, is the distribution of Jayuya salaíllas or cakes, beans, cod, and wine, the Council offers to all attendees who enjoy the mountains scattered in the company of family and friends of these products in conjunction with other processed in their homes at the rate of traditional dances and music.
Date of event, according to the liturgical calendar.
February 28 Feast is celebrated throughout the Andalusian
Easter dates change every year, usually coinciding with the first full moon of the vernal equinox, the exact dates of the Vatican decrees, but always takes place between 22 March and 25 April, according to the Gregorian calendar and the consensus in the Council of Nicea 325
Holy Week in Granada, International Tourist Interest , is very different from other cities, is distinguished by the simplicity and beauty of its steps, but also no doubt by the unique setting in which run their processions.
The streets of Albaycín, such as narrow and twisting with their typical cobblestone stage serve as a Virgin of the Conception Aurora or that become almost human in its path through the neighborhood that receives it with great exuberance and affection.
See the Christ of Silence of the Gypsies or the Carrera del Darro under the moonlight and the Alhambra lit on the hill behind is definitely a scene that will not leave indifferent.
Some steps representing the Holy Week in Granada are the Holy Christ and the Virgin del Consuelo del Sacromonte (Gypsies) of the Aurora Mary, Our Lady of the Star and the Virgin of the Conception (that run the Albaycín) or The Holy Christ of Mercy (silence), and also the Holy Christ of favors (in the neighborhood of Realejo brother) and Santa Maria de la Alhambra (leaving the heart of the Alhambra).
Easter is celebrated in Granada probably from the Reconquista, although available data are from the sixteenth century, we know that in 1573 were banned fraternities of penitents who were re-authorized in 1611. Most of the current guilds born around 1830, since those in previous centuries had been dissolving, mainly from the late eighteenth century. It is however from 1926, with the Cardinal Archbishop Casanova, when there is true revival that arrives today. Currently there are 32 fraternities with more than two thousand bearers carrying 58 steps from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, coinciding few days half a dozen processions that pass all the official race (Calle Navas, Plaza del Carmen, Calle Catholic Kings Inns Street, Calle Marques de Gerona, Pasiegas Square and inside the Cathedral). Follows the pattern typical Andalusian Holy Week, with the particularity of his tours of the beautiful and narrow streets of Granada and from the Albaicín with the beautiful background of the illuminated Alhambra.
On May 3. takes place one of the most popular celebrations in Granada, Las Cruces, which each year come to the meeting point thousands of visitors from all over Andalusia.
Its origins appear to lie in 1625, the date on which stood a cross of alabaster in the district of San Lazaro, which was celebrated with songs and dances by all locals.
In the early twentieth century the Albaicín Realejo children and small altars built with a cross, being decorated with shawls, ceramic pots, copper pots and scissors but with a dunk. By their surroundings, the children called the "chavico", a word that comes from the local short farthing.
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Corpus Christi is the biggest party of Granada, usually in June, but it is a movable feast of Easter depends. The way to know the exact date of the Corpus is to have 60 days from Easter Monday, first Monday after Easter Sunday, and will give us the Thursday of Corpus Christi, big day of the week during the holidays.
Corpus Fair begins every year on Monday at 12 pm with " lighting "-on of the thousands of bulbs in the home-and ends the following Sunday with a fireworks display.
At this time, the city is prepared to enjoy and live their major festivals, those more than five hundred years ago were ordered by royal command. The Festival of Corpus are part of the most joyous traditions that preserved the city and throughout its history has served as a break in the daily lives of the people of Granada, a conference on promoting healthy living and entertainment.
In these days where a full range of cultural events, among which bullfighting, booths and swings thrilling fair
The fair environment can be enjoyed both day and night at the fairgrounds. By day and look elegant carriages with people dressed in traditional flamenco dresses. During the night the atmosphere does not decay and that flamenco can be seen in any of the houses and their decorations care to detail.
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At the end of June marks the International Festival of Music and Dance, which has become one of the largest in Europe. Its stage is the Alhambra, either in the Palace of Charles V or in the Gardens of Generalife, with its outdoor theater.
It is one of the most prestigious musical events in Spain, has its origin in the symphony concerts since 1883 were held at the Palacio de Carlos V and the Concurso de Cante Jondo, convened at the Square of the Cisterns of the Alhambra in 1922 with the assistance of Federico Garcia Lorca, Manuel de Falla, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Santiago Rusiñol and other intellectuals and artists of the time, although the first edition was in 1952, it is a cultural event that has been enriched over of years, to present a wide range of musical offerings for three weeks (the last two June and early July) monopolize almost all corners of the city. The Alhambra, the Generalife, the Albaicin and many other landmarks of the city become the stage for symphonic concerts, chamber music, ballet, contemporary dance, flamenco samples, early music, electroacoustic music, contemporary.
It also has a long tradition in the city of Granada Jazz Festival, which since 1980 has brought great legends of this genre like Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Haden, Art Blakey, Tete Montoliu, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock or Chano Domínguez, and Granada has created a great fondness for this kind of music.
For its part, the International Tango Festival in Granada, which began in 1987 has become one of the most interesting in the musical field as in the exchange of some cultures are so close and yet so distant.
Granada is also home to other festivals which are examples of this city's devotion to art. Theater, film and all types of music are also subject to two separate festivals.
Although this representation of the Virgin Mary dates back to the sixteenth century, the canonical coronation took place in 1913, which also was declared patroness of the city. This is a carving of Torcuato Ruiz del Peral.
On 15 September, the City is full of people from the capital, people and tourists in wonder the fervor of Granada since early morning were prepared to visit the Virgin. The center of the city becomes a colorful display of flowers that later become an offering to be deposited by pilgrims, flower to flower, business line on the facade of the Basilica.
last Sunday in September, the movement of people is constant Puerta Real, Plaza de Bibataubín and Carrera de la Virgen. Grandparents accompany their children and grandchildren in the course of the sweet smell of winter fruits: figs, quinces acerola cherries, pomegranate, jujube, apricot ... chickpea donuts and cakes of the Virgin, sugar, pumpkin and even chocolate.
September is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, and that during the thirty days are passing by the temple all the local governments of Grenada to worship.
At the time of Arab domination there was a legend in the popular Cerro del Aceituno (also Cerro de los Diablos) had a miraculous olive tree that once was only able to offer its fruits with the whole process of maturation simultaneously. And so there was a party on the day of Ankara next to a tower that stood there.
After the Christian conquest of the city, the place became known as Cerro de los Angeles and built a small chapel where Mass was said for the first time in 1673. This shrine was destroyed by the French in 1810, but the Brotherhood's efforts to build it back in 1828.
Although a local party Albaicín quarter, has a huge impact on the entire population of Grenada to attend the pilgrimage in the Cerrado of S. Miguel, next to the Chapel, decorated with horses and carts.
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