Easter Week in Algarrobo

Easter Week in Algarrobo is an intense experience within the municipality, with Easter Sunday being especially remarkable.

Easter Sunday represents the highlight of Easter Week and is so unusual that it attracts many visitors. Christ Resurrected is dressed in a white tunic and Nuestra Señora de Gloria in a white dress holding a red rose in her hands. Until the 1990s, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which a farmer named José Ruiz donated to the parish in the 1940s, was paraded as if resurrected.

In 1991 the brotherhood of Christ Resurrected in Vélez-Málaga donated an image to the town of Algarrobo. This is the day when the images are paraded in a very special way, the floats are carried accompanied by a unique rhythm and at a trot. The men bearing the float walk at a trot and make small jumps with the images, moving along at a fast and happy pace, attracting both the faithful and numerous spectators; In certain areas of the town such as the Plaza de España, the Plaza de la Gloria, the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and at the door of the Church, the images come together by frontally joining the poles of the floats in what is call here "the kiss" and they walk along together side by side for a short period of time.

Everyone applauds excitedly when a number of white doves are released. These characteristic jumps originated in what was once known as "the bullfights of San Juan", where a child of God was taken out in procession at dawn on the day before and hidden in the Plaza de la Gloria until someone playing the part of the Saint John the Apostle ran from one image to the other and when the Virgin appeared in the Calle de la Gloria, he told her about the resurrection of her son.