Symbols and religious rituals in aljarafe (Sevilla)

Abstract

The most important aspects of the religiosity of the aljarafe are detailed, very defined natural region and close to the city of Seville. Forms by numerous towns municipalities one of them have their own religious and identity symbols, once it has been marked by the preponderance of unifying symbols the Virgin of Loreto and the Virgen of Rocío. The first, originally linked to the towns of Espartinas and Umbrete, by way of legends of publication, its devotion expands the hand of the observant Franciscans, since the sixteenth century in the convent-sanctuary of Loreto, which has sought to make this image of the region is effective. The Virgen of Rocío from its sanctuary of Almonte has gained from the second half of the last century a powerful influence in the region, luck in most of the towns that have created a brotherhood, I found some of the most ladies of those who come to the village on the feast of Pentecost.