HOLY WEEK AND PESAJ IN BUENOS AIRES (By Hostel Buenos Aires)

These days, the city is commemorating the Christian Holy Week and the Pesaj (Jewish Easter). The Tourism Organization of Buenos Aires prepared for the occasion a series of activities which include guided visits to the churches and temples of our city, a Via Crucis, live music shows and allegoric exhibitions. These activities are developed in the Religious Tourism program that promotes the Ministry of Culture.

This program points to the strengthening of the city religious circuits and prioritizes the revaluation of the religious architecture in an annual calendar that includes different celebrations, festivities and pilgrimages. The Religious Tourism is an activity that moves millions of people around the world and its cultural heritage is one of the main riches of Buenos Aires. The cultural diversity and the different communities reflect in several cults that mold the Porteño identity, add activities and attractive in each creed.

During this week, two of the city’s major religions celebrate their Easter. The Christians commemorating the Holy Week, the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. The Jewish community, with its festivity that shows their spirit of freedom and birth of their people, the passage from slavery in Egypt to the miraculous salvation and liberation, physical as well as spiritual.

A full list of activities can be found in the Buenos Aires City Government website (available only in Spanish).