Processions of Holy Week on La Rambla
· When? From 13 to April 18th. 2025
· Days? Thursday, Friday, Sunday
Palm Sunday processions
The celebration of Holy Week is coming. This religious festival has its first celebration on Palm Sunday, which this year falls on April 13th
Palm Sunday procession. Sunday April 13
As every year, the procession of "la Borriquita" or Jesus entering Jerusalem departs from Plaça Sant Agustí and follows a route through different streets of the Raval and the Gothic Quarter. La Rambla will be one of the points along the route where the procession can be best seen.
The procession begins at 10:00 am from Plaça Sant Agustí. The "borriquita" goes through Hospital, La Rambla, Santa Anna, Portal de l'Àngel, Cucurulla, Portaferrissa, La Rambla, Hospital, and Plaça Sant Agusti.
Approximate schedule of the procession:
10:00 am Pl. Sant Agustí
10.15 am Hospital
10.30 am Pla de la Boqueria
10:45 am La Rambla
11.15 am Santa Anna
11.30 am Av. Portal de l'Àngel
11.45 am Cucurulla
12.00 pm Portaferrisa
12.15 pm La Rambla
12.30 pm Pla de la Boqueria
12.45 pm Hospital
1:00 pm Pl. Sant Agustí
1:15 pm Mass
Maundy Thursday processions
Bloody Way of the Blood. Thursday, April 17
The Blood Procession is documented to have taken place around the year 1570, making it the oldest processional mysteries in Spain.
The Way of the Cross took place for the first time in 1601 as part of an agreement with the parish of El Pi to carry out the Holy Week cults. During the 17th and 18th centuries and the first half of the 19th century, the Blood Procession became one of the central events of Holy Week in Barcelona. With the extinction of the guild corporations in 1842, the procession began to decline and gradually lost participation until it definitively disappeared around the year 1900. However, the Bloody Way of the Blood continued to take place in public until 1936, the beginning of the Civil War. It was resumed in 1939 and continued until the 1970s, when it began to be held inside the Basilica.
The Way of the Cross will be carried out with the Venerable Image of the Holy Christ of the Blood, a three-meter sculpture of Jesus on the cross, and also the mystery or passage of the Virgin Mary of Sorrows with an 18th-century sculpture of the Virgin. Fourteen stops will be made, reading biblical passages corresponding to the fourteen stations of the Passion of Christ, commemorating the sufferings of Jesus, from Judas's betrayal to his burial.
Organized by the Royal and Illustrious Archconfraternity of the Most Pure Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, it will take place on Maundy Thursday, April 17 from 9:00 to 10:30 p.m. The start and end will be at the headquarters of the Archconfraternity, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi.
This procession does not pass through La Rambla: departure from the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi (Plaça del Pi), Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol, Carrer de la Palla, Carrer dels Banys Nous, Carrer del Call, Plaça de Sant Jaume, Carrer del Bisbe, Carrer de la Pietat, Plaça de Sant Iu, Pla de la Seu, Carrer de Santa Llúcia, Carrer del Bisbe, Plaça de Cucurulla and arrival at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi (Plaça del Pi).
Good Friday processions in La Rambla
Friday, April 18
On Good Friday, which falls on Friday, April 18th this year, there are two processions that pass through La Rambla. One departs from the Raval, that of Jesus del Gran Poder and María Santísima de la Esperanza Macarena, and the other from the Gothic Quarter, that of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias.
Procession of the "pasos" of Jesus del Gran Poder and María Santísima de la Esperanza Macarena. Friday, April 18, 2025 at 5 p.m.
The procession of the Pontifical and Royal Brotherhood of Jesus del Gran Poder and María Santísima de la Esperanza Macarena of Barcelona departs from Plaça de Sant Agustí at 5 p.m and follows a route through Hospital, La Rambla, Santa Anna, Portal de l'Àngel, Arcs, Plaça Nova, Av. Catedral, Boters, Pi, Plaça del Pi, Cardenal Casañas, Plaça de la Boqueria, Hospital and Plaça de Sant Agustí (arrival is scheduled for 10:30 p.m).
Procession of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias. Friday, April 7, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Procession of the Brotherhood and Confraternity of Our Lady of Sorrows
A bit later, at 6:30 p.m., the procession of the Brotherhood and Confraternity of Our Lady of Sorrows will depart from the church of Sant Jaume (c/Ferran, 28). The route will be as follows: Ferran, Plaça Sant Jaume, Bisbe, Avinguda de la Catedral, Boters, Portaferrissa, La Rambla and Ferran (arrival at 11 p.m).
Procession of the Good Death
On Friday, April 18, the procession of the Good Death will also take place. Organized by the congregation of the Christ of the Good Death, the procession starts and ends at the parish of Santa Anna.
The scheduled time is from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The passage of the processions through La Rambla will cause transit disruptions.
