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Basílica de la Macarena

  • Address: C. Bécquer 1, La Macarena, Seville, 41002
  • Phone: 95/490-1800

Fodor's Review:

This church holds Seville's most revered image, the Virgin of Hope—better known as La Macarena. Bedecked with candles and carnations, her cheeks streaming with glass tears, the Macarena steals the show at the procession on Holy Thursday, the highlight of Seville's Holy Week pageant. She's the patron of gypsies and the protector of the matador. So great are her charms that young Sevillian bullfighter Joselito spent half his personal fortune buying her emeralds. When he was killed in the ring in 1920, the Macarena was dressed in widow's weeds for a month. There's a small adjacent museum devoted to her costumes and jewels.

  • Cost: Free
  • Open: Basilica daily 9:30-2 and 5-9.
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