Granada: day 1

Today I started my trip to Granada. Granada is a city in the south of Spain. We took a speed train to the city, can reach 350 km/h. 

This week is Holy Week in Spain, a religious holiday for Christians. The processions are really famous and in them a group of people carry the “pasos”. These are sculptures that narrate different episodes of Jesus’ death, resurrection…

The processions start in the church and they walk around carrying the pasos for hours, usually pretty late. However, this year some of these processions have been canceled or postponed due to bad weather. 

We visited the Cathedral, which is renaissance (sXVII). It’s known as the luminous Cathedral because it’s all white and golden and it’s got strategic windows and lights so that it’s very well illuminated. After that we went to a café where we had porras, hot chocolate and torrijas (traditional dessert from this time of the year).