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Quito, Apr 1 (EFE).- Packed churches and street processions will once again mark Easter in Quito after a two-year gap in public events due to the coronavirus pandemic. After the removal of capacity limits imposed to reduce the transmission of Covid-19, the Ecuadorian capital began decorating its old town, which will be at the center …
Easter in Britain is a sorry affair, when compared to carnivalesque Quito
Men in horned masks and winged Virgin Marys: Tim Wyatt revels in Easter in Ecuador Cucuruchos prepare for Easter celebrations in Quito
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Easter in Britain can be a sorry affair: a tired donkey processing up a provincial high street, and maybe a half-hearted egg hunt in the church. But to experience this festival in its all glory, glitz and glamour, head to Quito, a city whose inhabitants delight in being even more Catholic than the Spanish who converted them half a millennium ago.
During Semana Santa (Holy Week), you can barely move inside the historic Old Town, without stumbling across a gaudy procession or stupendously extravagant church service. My Ecuadorian Easter begins at the city’s cathedral, which sits in the heart of the colonial plazas and narrow streets. Just a few days before Good Friday, this centuries-old sacred space is host to a special mass which, across the entire Catholi