The best applications to know processions

The devotee of Holy Week also has its place within the Google Play Store application store. Whether you live in an autonomous community with roots in Easter or not, the believer and fan of processional carvings has a good handful ofapplications that will satisfy his curiosity

Currently, there are 3 Easter apps among the most popular and downloaded in the entire Play Store. The 3 are limited to covering the provinces of Seville and Malaga.That is why, in addition to telling you what you are going to find in these, we are going to choose a couple more that cover the festivity in other Spanish regions. Because although Holy Week occupies a privileged place in Andalusia, we must not forget other towns with a vast tradition of parades and brotherhoods.

These are the best applications to learn about processions, steps and saints of Holy Week.

El Llamador Seville 2018

If you ask any Sevillian what is the Holy Week program for which everyone sighs when Palm Sunday arrives, without doubt will tell you that El Llamador. Published on paper by RTVA and developed for mobile phones by Guadalmedia, El Llamador is such a popular and widespread guide that people queue up at the Canal Sur offices at the Expo92 site to get it.

Fortunately, we have the digital version, so we are going to save waiting lines. El Llamador Sevilla 2018 is a free application, with , that you can download at this link. The weight of its installation file is just over 20 MB.

How is the El Llamador application?

Very simple and austere. On the main screen we have several sections arranged horizontally:

• Hermandades: ordered by days, we will obtain all the necessary information to know everything about the processions: number of steps and costaleros, history , music and data of interest. On the screen of each brotherhood you have a tab with the corresponding itinerary.

• Live: itinerary in real time. If we select this option, a map will open to see where each brotherhood is going at all times.
• Canal Sur Radio: direct link to the radio broadcast offered by Canal Sur during Holy Week
• Gastronomy: map with points of gastronomic interest. Because lunch and dinner time will catch you on the street, for sure.

In addition, we have a lateral menu where we can access:

• Photos of processions
• Seeker of guilds
• News Press
• Information of tourist interest
• Caramel: fun section with questions to liven up the wait between brotherhoods

Step by Step Seville 2018

The second most popular Holy Week application in the Play Store is also dedicated to Sevillan Holy Week. Its name is Step by Step and you can download it for free and with a weight of 24 MB. This app contains ads.

How is the Step by Step application?

It has a very austere interface: it consists only of a main screen with 11 sections of varied interest that we proceed to thresh.

• Brotherhoods: classified by departure days from Friday of Dolores, each brotherhood has its itinerary, a direct link to its page on the Internet, Twitter and Facebook. In addition, it offers information of interest and various curiosities.
• Program: itinerary for the whole week, ordered by days and hours.
• What to see? The application tells you, in real time, the best places to see the brotherhoods that, at that moment, march through the streets of Seville.
• News, photo gallery and weather forecast.
• Direct link to the hashtag semanasantasevilla on Instagram, as well as posts on Facebook and Twitter

The Penitent

In Andalusia the 'rivalry' between Holy Week in Seville and Malaga is notorious. The El Penitente application wants to avoid bad feelings, twinning (never better said) the two festivities in a single place. With El Penitente you can enjoy both places and, in addition, totally free. Its installation file is only 4 MB.

How is the El Penitente application?

As soon as we open the app we will have to choose which province we want to consult, Malaga or Seville. Once selected, we will be offered a list of outstanding processions of the province to fix the image of the user interface. Next, we can activate news notifications from Seville and Malaga.

Once the initial configuration is done, we can see the different options of the app:

• Lent schedule: Stations of the Cross, Friday of Sorrows and Saturday of Passion
• Transfers: date of transfer of the passage to the corresponding church
• Holy Week: detailed information on each brotherhood, organized by days
• Musical accompaniment: information on Easter bands
• Extraordinary departures and temples: information on occasional and extraordinary events outside the calendar as well as the main Canonical Headquarters of the capital

Holy Week Cáceres

The celebration of Holy Week in Cáceres is also one of the most important in the country. It lasts 9 days and steps of Castilian and Andalusian tradition are mixed. The Semana Santa Cáceres application offers you detailed information on the festivity and you can get it for free at this link.Its installation file does not reach 2 MB in weight.

How is the Easter Cáceres application?

Very austere. On the main screen, the fraternities appear in order of the day with a link to the itinerary and details of it. It contains a side menu where we can find a photo gallery and a complete list of brotherhoods.

Holy Week in Murcia

Holy Week in Murcia stands out, above all, for its wide variety of images dating from the 16th to the 18th century. With the official Holy Week in Murcia application we will have at hand everything that interests us about this festivity. The app is free and has a weight of just over 7 MB.

How is the Holy Week application in Murcia?

The main screen offers the different brotherhoods ordered by days, with their itinerary and, in addition, a notice when they are near your location. In the side menu we can access a complete party schedule. If you connect Bluetooth you will enjoy a much more interactive experience every day of Holy Week in Murcia.