SAINT WEEK IN LEÓN

The Saint Week of León is one of the most important of Spain, signalled in the festive calendar of León as the most important of the year and having achieved in the year 2002 the statement of "Party of Interest Tourist International".

They are sixteen the Brotherhoods that provide of proper personality such demonstration of religiousness, registering in 1572 the foundation of the most ancient :"Nuestra Señora de las Angustias y Soledad" and the most modern in 1994: "Cristo del Gran Poder".

During ten days, from the spectacular exit in the afternoon of "La Virgen de los Dolores" until the loose of pigeons the "Domigo de Reurrección" in the Square of the Cathedral, the people of León and visitors share in this Saint Week an unequalled experience.

Sixteen thousand "leoneses", designated commonly as “papones” take part actively in this Saint Week, whereas all the village of Lion and the increasingly visitors crowd together in the streets to contemplate it and admire it.

And, beside the art and the devotion, some moments of esparcimiento in the numerous bars than day and night offer the typical “limonada” of Saint Week which does with sugar, cinnamon, fruits and wine.