14 Mar, 2020 @ 12:51
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BREAKING: Semana Santa CANCELLED in Sevilla over coronavirus in HUGE €400 million blow to tourism

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SEMANA Santa has been cancelled in Sevilla.

The decision has been made by the Junta de Andalucía following the state of alarm declared by Spain yesterday.

The huge event will be an emotional and economic loss for the regional capital.

The week long Easter celebration usually contributes some €400 million to the economy.

“There are sufficiently justified public health reasons to suspend the processional parades on the public thoroughfare of the brotherhoods of Sevilla in Easter 2020,” a city council statement read.

“It is our obligation and that of all citizens to cooperate in the achievement of the objectives that our country has set itself on this issue.”

Semana Santa was last cancelled in Sevilla in 1933 due to a lack of security following government instability.

Even during the Civil War, Sevilla was not without its Holy Week.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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