Holy Week (Semana Santa)

Entrada Triunfal opens at 9:45am from San Lorenzo, the only morning procession until Easter Sunday. Six more brotherhoods follow through the afternoon and evening, with Las Penas now departing at 16:00 (an hour earlier than its previous schedule) and Amor closing the night past midnight — seven brotherhoods across roughly fifteen hours.

Sentencia, departing from San Nicolás de la Villa around 16:30, fields 549 nazarenos — the largest single brotherhood in Córdoba's Holy Week. The day also marks a first: Presentación al Pueblo makes its Carrera Oficial debut, having never processed on the official route in the brotherhood's history. Vía Crucis and Ánimas depart late enough that both are still out past 1:50am.

Agonía begins its procession from the Sanctuary of Fuensanta, south of the city, reaching the Carrera Oficial around 19:00 — the longest journey of any brotherhood this day. The Roman Bridge around dusk, roughly 7 to 8pm, puts you on the Guadalquivir as Agonía and Universitaria cross from the south bank. Prendimiento, depicting the Arrest of Christ, is last off the streets at around 2:50am.

Six brotherhoods process, two of them finishing past 4am. La Piedad — whose Virgen de la Piedad carries the nickname La Gitana and draws some of the week's most fervent flamenco devotion — departs from San Antonio María Claret this year, a change from its usual starting point. Misericordia leaves from the Caballerizas Reales area.

El Nazareno leads from around 17:00; by 10pm, several brotherhoods are simultaneously on the Carrera Oficial — the most compressed stretch of the week. La Cena departs from the Avenida de Guerrita area, while Cristo de Gracia closes the evening from around 19:10, finishing past 3am.

The Hermandad de la Buena Muerte, a military brotherhood founded in 1953, departs at midnight from the Eduardo Dato / Paseo de la Victoria area in silence — no applause, no talking, no flash photography. The official route passes the Mezquita at 02:15am; the brotherhood returns by 05:40. Temperatures drop to 6–8°C before dawn, so dress accordingly.

Seven brotherhoods process, including Santo Sepulcro (one of five brotherhoods bringing novelties in 2026) and Soledad, which departs from the Av. 28 de Febrero / Rabanales area on the western periphery. Dolores de Alcolea processes separately in the Alcolea suburb north of the city — a smaller, more local event for those who want Holy Week away from tourist crowds. Descendimiento finishes past 2am.

Hermandad de Nuestro Señor Resucitado departs at 9:30am from Plaza de Santa Marina, the nazarenos in white after eight days of dark tunics. The official route reaches the Mezquita around 11:50am and the brotherhood returns to Santa Marina by roughly 15:45 — unhurried, accessible, and over before late afternoon.