Bands, flowers and robes: Albox plans €56,000 for its 2027 Holy Week, the largest grant in its history
Albox Town Council plans €56,000 in 2027 for its four brotherhoods and the Hermandad de Pasión: €18,000 more than this year and the largest grant in its history.
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Bands, flowers for the floats, robes and the care of a heritage passed down from generation to generation: behind every procession there are many hours of work and many expenses too. To cover them, the brotherhoods (cofradías) of Albox will have €56,000 in direct funding from the town council in 2027, the largest amount the council has ever allocated to its Holy Week (Semana Santa).
The allocation will go into the 2027 Municipal Budget, which the governing team is drawing up and plans to approve before the end of this year, according to Albox Town Council. That is €18,000 more than in 2026, when the brotherhoods received €38,000, which was already a record at the time. The funding therefore rises by 47%.
The money is for the five Holy Week brotherhoods in the municipality: the cofradías of San Juan Evangelista (Paso Colorao), Nuestra Señora de las Angustias (Paso Blanco), Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (Paso Morao) and Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Paso Negro), and the Hermandad de Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Pasión. The town council has not specified how much each will receive.
What is it for?
According to the town council, the funding is used to cover the essential costs of Holy Week:
- Bands.
- Floral decoration.
- Robes.
- Conservation and acquisition of heritage.
The mayor, María del Mar Alfonso, and the councillor for Culture, Juan Domingo Navarro, broke the news to representatives of the five brotherhoods at a meeting at which they also took note of their needs and proposals for 2027. For the mayor, “Holy Week is part of the identity, history and traditions of Albox”, and the aim is for the brotherhoods “to have the peace of mind of counting on this municipal backing so they can prepare and celebrate a Holy Week that has a higher profile every year”.
The councillor for Culture added that they want the grants “to respond to their real needs” and recalled the revival of the Certamen de Marchas de Semana Santa de Albox (Albox Holy Week Marches Competition), which showcases processional music.
Much more than processions
After all, in Albox Holy Week goes beyond the religious. The mayor describes it as “one of the main hallmarks of Albox’s identity, which involves the whole town”, one that generates activity, brings residents together and attracts large numbers of visitors. The Andalusian regional government (Junta de Andalucía) includes it in its cultural agenda as a festival declared of tourist interest and highlights its Semana Santa Infantil (Children’s Holy Week), with the pasos (processional floats) of the youngest children.
Next Holy Week is still months away, but the brotherhoods of Albox already have a figure with which to start doing their sums.
