Pilgrims "The Weapon" captured heart Photo taken in Almagro
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" weapon ", religious brotherhoods integrated at the celebrations of Easter Camp Calatrava, has become one of the hallmarks of most peculiar identity of the Passion Road Calatrava.
These formations, which have a paramilitary structure, inherited from the Baroque soldierly, and as part lances, halberds, trumpets and drums, ranked according to various ranks, are one of the main attractions of the Easter calatrava.
The weapon formed square, marching to the beat of drums and horns and parade as if it were a legion.
One of the most spectacular of this march is when they make the familiar figure called the "spiral", a colorful parade in spiral shape and is rolled on itself and, in the case of arm yourselves Almagro, held in the Plaza Mayor of this tourist town in La Mancha.
brotherhoods The weapons are very old, some of which date from its founding in 1880. "