Experience Holy Week in Cuenca, from March 24 “Palm Day” to Sunday the 31st “Easter Day”
Holy Week in Cuenca is one of the most important events of the year for the city. Thousands of people and visitors walk the streets, squares, churches, markets and restaurants to commemorate these festivities. Religious institutions, public and private have prepared a great offer to live Holy Week in Cuenca, find out here.
Religious festivities begin from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday.
What to do at Easter in Cuenca?
La Procesión de los Pasos
A custom that has become a tradition that adorns and commemorates the Death and Passion of Christ
The procession of the steps is a significant religious event that revives more than 30 years ago, where every Holy Tuesday, each of the moments and episodes of the Passion, represented in each step or set of religious sculptures, was exhibited in a tour.
This Tuesday, March 26, 8 impressive steps or groups of sculptures, representing scenes, from the prayer in the Garden of Olives to the Descension, will leave on a tour, all along with several bands of seasonal music.
Start: Church of San Blas
Route: Simón Bolívar to Catedral Nueva
Date: Tuesday, March 26
Time: 18:30
7 Churches Tour - Holy Week in Cuenca
This tour is another of the entrenched traditions of the Catholic religion, which invites faithful and visitors to tour seven different churches, symbolizing the seven places where Jesus was taken after his arrest.
This Holy Thursday, March 28, the attention in all the churches of the Historic Center will be until 24:00, so that all who can make this Christian journey. In this 2024, 8 temples will be illuminated:
1) San Blas
Location: Manuel Vega y Simón Bolívar
2) San Alfonso
Location: Simón Bolívar y Antonio Borrero
3) Catedral Vieja
Location: Luis Cordero y Mariscal Sucre
4) Catedral Nueva
Location: Benigno Malo y Mariscal Sucre
5) El Carmen
Location: Mariscal Sucre y Padre Aguirre
6) San Francisco
Location: Padre Aguirre y Presidente Córdova
7) Cenáculo
Location: Simón Bolívar y Tarqui
8) San Sebastián
Location: Simón Bolívar y Coronel Talbot
On Holy Thursday on foot, Simón Bolívar Street will be pedestrianized from 5:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Tourist and Cultural Circuit in Simón Bolívar Street
This Thursday, March 28, Simon Bolivar Street in the section between Luis Cordero Street and Coronel Talbot Street, and Sucre Street in Padre Aguirre and Benigno Malo, will be routes of exclusive use to walk from 17:30 to 23:30.
On the pedestrian streets, several cultural tourist activities will be developed to encourage walking.
Iluminación con faroles
Time: 19:30 a 23:00 Place: Simón Bolívar, entre Luis Cordero y Coronel Talbot
Música Sacra – Banda de Pueblo
Time: 19:00 a 19:45 Place: Glorieta – Parque Calderón
Presentación Teatral
Time: 19:45 a 20:30 Place: Glorieta – Parque Calderón
Balcón Musical
Time: 20:00 a 20:45 Place: Casa del Coco – Simón Bolívar y Juan Montalvo
Performance Teatral
Time: 20:45 a 21:15 Place: Exteriores iglesia del Cenáculo
Vía Crucis - Semana Santa en Cuenca
This procession will recreate Jesus’ path to crucifixion, with various depictions of the Stations of the Cross along the streets of the city.
Start: Catedral Nueva
Route: Mariscal Sucre and Benigno Malo to Mariscal Sucre and Manuel Vega. Return along the Simón Bolívar
Time: 19:00
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