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Semanta Santa
Semanta Santa or Holy Week is the biggest celebration in Antigua. Hundreds of locals dress in violet robes to accompany daily processions in remembrance of the crucifixion. The celebrations last the entire week, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, with the main processions occurring on Good Friday. A fascinating aspect of the processions are that families get together and create elaborate and stunningly beautiful colored flower petal carpets made by hand using petals, and colored sawdust, only to watch their work be trampled by huge processions of thousands of penitents and Roman centurions. Huge biers with priceless colonial effigies of Christ, the apostles and the Virgin Mary are carried by the penitents. These traditional processions date back hundreds of years and attract visitors and pilgrims from all over the world.
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