5 applications that you cannot miss this Holy Week
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With the traditional Palm Sunday, Easter officially started this year yesterday. Until next Holy Saturday, the streets of a large part of the Spanish geography will be filled with steps and brotherhoods with hundreds of devotees and onlookers crowded around religious images. If you don't want to miss any procession, either because you stay at home or travel expressly to some of the most enthusiastic areas, such as Malaga or Seville,we recommend some Applications.They will help you to get information about the schedules, as well as the different itineraries that all the steps of Holy Week will carry out.
Some, even, give details of the brotherhoods, with added history and curiosities. You can also enjoy live broadcasts, photographs of the day or know the weather forecast. If you are interested in the topic, keep reading. We recommend five applications that you cannot miss this Holy Week.
The Penitent
One of the applications to find out all the information about Holy Week this year is El penitente. It is an app developed in Malaga during November 2014 with the aim of giving all the details of Holy Week in Malaga the following year. Currently, El penitente is also available so we don't miss a thing during Holy Week in Seville, with all kinds of information, such as transfers, itineraries or extraordinary outings.
The penitent has a very visual interface, with up-to-date information so that we don't miss a procession. Among some of its main characteristics we can mention hourly tables of the Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods with intervals of 15 minutes. This app also has a warning system through configurable instant notifications. Of course, there is a geolocation service so that we know how to get to the step that interests us from when we are , or the location planned for days. One of its advantages is that it offers the option of being able to plan to establish the routes that interest us the most. In this way, we can mark the best ones for that day, indicating times and places so as not to miss any. We can also share all this on different social networks, in order to notify our contacts or invite them to join us.
El penitente is a very complete application to learn about Holy Week in Seville or Malaga.It also has live television, photos of the day (only in Malaga), musical accompaniment, and gives the option to customize with our favorite Nazarene corporation. Likewise We also found a brotherhood dictionary so as not to get lost with any terminology or weather service.
Trivial Brotherhood
If you are an enthusiast of Holy Week, you may be interested in this application that entertains while teaching. It is a trivial thought by and for the most devoted. Since it is the south of Spain where the epicenter of this annual festivity is located, Trivial Cofrade is based on Holy Week in Seville to ask your questions. Anytime Anyway, don't worry if you're not from there or don't know much about the subject, I'm sure it'll be good for you to learn more and then share it with your friends.
The operation of this application is very simple. As soon as you enter (you can do it with a nickname or through Facebook) a menu will appear to establish the type of game. You can play online, choose a single player or play one against one. During the game a series of questions appear when you spin the wheel. You can choose the category or not have this option. However, once you have answered, whether you are correct or not, the system will allow you to assess the question (whether it was difficult, easy, bad or good). There are questions of all kinds and all related to Holy Week in Malaga.
Cope Holy Week
It is difficult to find an application that gathers information on Holy Week from the different cities where this event is most lived. Cope Semana Santa was born with this mission and offers information on Holy Week in Seville, Málaga, Córdoba, Huelva, Almería, Jerez, Jaén or GranadaIn other words, some of the places where this week of passion is most successful. The application is very simple and gathers all the steps with the different times in which they will leave throughout these days.
It also gives details of the history of the brotherhoods, the time or the last hour. With this feature you can find out everything that has happened up to the minute in the cities it registers. The interface is very easy and intuitive. As soon as you enter the app, a map of Andalusia will be displayed to choose the city you want to consult. You can also use a search engine to find a specific step that you want to see.
Official Holy Week Race
If trivia is not your thing, but you like Easter game applications, you can take a look at Official Easter Race.The objective of this app is to help the Nazarene to arrive on time when leaving his brotherhood. You'll have to go around different obstacles to get there on time before the brotherhood hits the street. During your walk you will find costaleros, women dressed in mantillas, musicians and other key pieces of Holy Week.
Getting to the brotherhood won't be easy, you'll have to jump to be able to get there on time and collect candies, avoiding, of course , that the children steal them from you.
Holy Week Music
Finally, we recommend that you install Easter Music on your device. This application allows you to know the music of the bands of the processions that move these days through the streets of the entire Spanish geography. You can listen to more than 50 different songs and share the videos with your friends on social networks through your mobile device.There is space for saetas, marches or bands from Seville, Córdoba, Málaga, Jerez, Cádiz, Jaén, Granada, Huelva, Madrid, Valladolid, Cabra, Toledo, Almería, Elche or Zamora, among others.
Of course, keep in mind that this application is not a guide, so you will not find routes or itineraries of the processions, It is only a compilation of the bands for the most fanatical.
