Easter 2008 in Santiago de Compostela

Easter is around the corner and the local government has presented a new website that is focused on presenting the easter program. As you may know, in Spain easter is know for their easter easter processions (see photo).

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In Santiago de Compostela this year there will be 14 of these processions. Have a look here for the program. Each procession walks a different route, click on one to see the route and to get some more historical information on each route. It seems like English is not available.

For more information on the easter celebrations in Santiago de Compostela, have a look here:

http://www.semanasantasantiago.com

To get an idea of what a procession is like, have a look at this video:

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