What now?

Llegado el Monday Easter, with traditional the physical and emotional reward I experience vividly during Holy Weeklook back to take stock of what Seville has left.

A year longer, as usual, the city provided us with invaluable prints: scenes of enormous artistic value, first-rate bands, a thunderous feast unlike the algarabí hermandades de capaamong many other scenes that form part of his identity.

However, this Holy Week saw other less pleasant prints, and worse, more often.

Ah, for example, the mastication of the public, in many cases of tourists who do not know the proper behavior of a Sevillian in these days, when the holiday is not even the height of the seriousness of the celebration.

Good luck with whatever happened to those tourists who blocked the path of the Nazarenes from Coruna as they headed to the Sagrario, he insists that you take a picture with him.

But the affair never ends, unfortunately. There are also bottles in Heliópolis, where dozens of small babies smoke and even urinate between containers and carriages at the pace of the Mission herd.

Do not worry about the damage caused to some trees and bushes in the Jardines de Murillo to consider the transit of the Candelaria region.

Accidents that are common to others as usual a sea of ​​motion high up that dulls visionbulls around music bands or bad behavior in some enclaves in the hermandade phase, especially those who require an environment of greater comfort.

Sevillano tries to solve these situations in all the usual ways. Many friends admit that it is very inconvenient for them to go in the procession on certain days, especially when they go with small children who require special care.

Looking at all this, the families that choose to take care of the other Holy Weeks in the province are much less famous, but of great historical and artistic value.

And let us know that this exodus, in most cases, causes children to be deprived of a wholesome and reverent Holy Week, as they have been all their lives.

When I want to hear the same thing, I mean professional races that last for generationsHoly Week will start to disappear inside and will threaten to become a mere spectacle for those who come from abroad, attending a concert or contemplating a simple popular show.

And at this point the question is clear: what now? What do we want to do before this rumble changes? And most importantly, what can we look forward to during Holy Week in the future?

Because this number doesn’t only run on Main Week. It also focuses on other celebrations such as Christmas or the Feria, each of which has more meaning and less meaning.

They are celebrations that are gradually losing their individuality in favor of a model designed primarily for those who come from the future. It is not about increasing certain costs, but about thinking about what kind of city and society model we want for Seville in the future.

Now that we are in time to reverse this trend, we really want to save the uniqueness of this city and its traditions.

Now, at the time of the Resurrection, I will see the sea It is the moment when we look at ourselves as a city and recapture the purest essence of Sevillian cofradierism, which is not about fashion or tourism.

Sevilla would do well to protect what she gives to her heart and take care of it before she offers it to the world. Only then will Holy Week continue to be something special and not just entertainment that is consumed and forgotten.