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El antes y despuès de Calpe en los últimos 70 años:

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C A L P E

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SLOWING DOWN, CALPE, 2024

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Clips from the Holy Week processions in Calp, central Valencian Country. Video by Calp city council.

The Holy Week is the most important moment of the year in the Christian religion. It commemorates the last days, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Holy Week starts on Palm Sunday (a day in remembrance of Jesus's entrance to Jerusalem), and reaches its most important days on Good Friday (anniversary of Jesus's death on the cross) and Easter Sunday (which celebrates the day when Jesus was resurrected).

The Holy Week is held annually in March or April but the dates change every year because, like many Christian holidays, they follow the lunar calendar. Easter Sunday is held on the first full moon of spring, based on the Gregorian calendar in Western churches and on the Julian calendar in Eastern churches.

Most countries with a Christian cultural background, like ours, have the whole Holy Week as days off in schools and many workplaces, while other workplaces only have the second half of the week off. In the Catalan Countries, there are many traditions on these days, most notably the processions (done mostly by believer Catholics, starting with the Palm Sunday blessings and continuing with many different processions in every town), food traditions (followed by everyone regardless of religious beliefs, like tortell de Rams, arnadí, rubiols and crespells, currutacos, etc. and most importantly the mona or mico), folk theatre (the Passion) and folk dance (like the Dance of Death in Verges).

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RICARDO BOFILL, Xanadu, Calp, Spain, 1968

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The Peñón de Ifach Natural Park (in Valencian Parc Natural del Penyal d'Ifac) was declared a natural park by the Valencian government on January 19, 1987.

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