For us the processions are part of our tradition, but foreigners experience it as something completely exotic. So much devotion seems surprising to them, to say the least. The amazement begins with the hoods. They confuse them with Ku Klux Klan. “It’s a bit shocking,” says one of them. “It’s a bit disturbing because we associate it with the Ku Klux Klan,” confesses an African-American man. One of the tourists assures that the hoods scare him.

He hood is that hat with the tip pointing towards the sky that the Nazarenes carry. symbolizes the repentance and rapprochement bye bye. The historian Manuel Jesús Roldán explains to laSexta that the cone probably comes from the world of the inquisition. “But when it reaches our days it has no relation to the Ku Klux Klan,” he adds.

The reactions to the clothing reach social networks. As is the case of the gestures of astonishment of a group of african americans before the passage of the Nazarenes. “Images we weren’t prepared to see today,” she notes in the video. images with which they are perplexed and they record everything with the mobile.

They are puzzled by so much devotion. “You feel that there is a spirituality in the city,” says a Frenchman. “I am not religious and I asked myself why people adore and admire him like this,” a Spanish woman wonders.

They also draw attention to smell of incense. “Not only the processions, it’s the people in the street and the smell of orange blossom and incense,” says a woman from Uruguay.

Those who come from abroad experience Holy Week as a spectacle and do not want to miss the processions. “For a Frenchman it’s amazing,” she says. “Even though I’ve been in Seville for seven years, I’m still surprised because this is crazy,” adds a Uruguayan.

The preparations and the clothes, which becomes a patrimonial value. “It is a family tradition, but over time the garments deteriorate and they are made again,” explains the historian. For all these reasons, today there is applause celebrating these customs with a march made in Spain that brings thousands of people to discover the country.