Holy Week is coming and you still have no plans or destination to celebrate?
CoolRooms Hotels, which has hotels in historical, urban and natural environments, has designed special plans to enjoy the Holy Week from the front row!
Every year, at the end of March / beginning of April, Easter is celebrated with great emotion, indeed it is one of the most traditional festivities in Spain. One week to live an extraordinary and mesmerising experience, accompanied by the deep thud of drums and mournful wailing of trumpets.
If you want to enjoy a getaway away from the hustle and bustle of the city during Holy Week, Palacio de Luces in Asturias will be your favourite option. Easter in Asturias is spectacular, full of gastronomy, incredible plans, good weather and beautiful religious celebrations in many towns and villages of the Principality. CoolRooms has selected for you 5 activities that you cannot miss.
Experience the beauty of Asturian tradition and passion through the processions.
Holy Week is accompanied by outstanding processions and floats that run through different cities and towns of Asturias just like Oviedo and Gijón, for example.
During the Holy Week celebration in Oviedo, several processions will go through the historic center of the city. In 2023 we will be able to enjoy Holy Week with 9 religious processions and the transportation of “Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Sentencia” figure. A total of 10 Holy Week processions will take place in Oviedo See Oviedo processions program in Asturias.
In Gijón six brotherhoods and seven processions will go through the main streets of the city. Among the most outstanding processions is the Procession of the Holy Burial of Christ. See program of processions in Gijón in Asturias.
The tradition of the sweet bun “Fiestas de el Bollo” – Easter in Avilés
The Bollo Festival in Aviles is the best way to end the Easter celebrations, it is celebrated on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, which every year marks the arrival of spring in the Asturian city. It was declared a Festival of Tourist Interest in 1972. The Bollo Festival is a tribute to the bollu, a buttered sponge cake, shaped like a four-leaf clover or overlapping stars, forming a castle and dipped in powdered sugar; decorated with paper flowers and other motifs, such as the traditional chicks. If you have never been, you can’t miss this party wich represent the essence of Asturias tradition. See more information.
Mercaliarte in Colunga from April 6 to 9
For those who are passionate about crafts, you will be able to enjoy a craft market named “Mercaliarte” which is organized by the Association Alcuentros, in the Hernán Pérez-Cuubillas Park. Three days to discover exhibitions and handmade products as well as tasty thing to eat and drink. This market will have between twenty or thirty stalls with Taramundi knives, creative jewelry, macramé, ointments, thermal sacks, leather, wooden toys, bookbinding, textiles, olive wood, beans, sausages, cheese, honey, liqueurs, jams, donuts, caramelized almonds, Asturian bakery, saffron and much more.
Mercaliarte, Colunga
XXXII Horse Race Ribadesella 2023
“Las Carreras de Caballos de la Playa de Ribadesella” are organized as a recreational-sporting event of amateur character, to promote horse riding, a Festival recognized as a Regional Tourist Interest. This year it will take place on April 7 and 8. Thousands of people will gather to admire the charm of the only equestrian event in northern Spain, at Santa Marida beach.
