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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 Credit: Getty 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

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