{"id":4155,"date":"2023-03-31T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2023-03-31T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:11:54","slug":"holy-week-in-tenerife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/03\/holy-week-in-tenerife\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week in Tenerife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Holy Week in Tenerife is celebrated with great religious fervour. Processions and acts of the most deeply-rooted Christian tradition take place all over the island, especially in certain towns and villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In La Laguna, these dates are marked in a very special way. The city hosts processions full of floats, which are prepared with great care by brotherhoods within the city, to create a great experience and celebration of Christianity, with thousands of faithful present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/semana-santa-1-690x460.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/semana-santa-1-690x460.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/semana-santa-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/semana-santa-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/semana-santa-1-83x55.jpg 83w, https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/semana-santa-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/semana-santa-1-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/semana-santa-1.jpg 1316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the settlements of Candelaria, G\u00fc\u00edmar and Adeje, they perform a re-enactment of the Way of the Cross, in an overwhelming display of religiosity and passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy Week is also experienced with the same passion in other municipalities of Tenerife.&nbsp;This is the case in La Orotava, Arona, Icod de los Vinos, El Sauzal and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Week in Tenerife is celebrated with great religious fervour. Processions and acts of the most deeply-rooted Christian tradition take place all over the island, especially in certain towns and villages. In La Laguna, these dates are marked in a very special way. The city hosts processions full of floats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,85],"tags":[232,798],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-traditions","tag-tenerife","tag-visit-tenerife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webtenerife.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}