Corpus Christi, a celebration that moves mountains in the province of Jaén

The Corpus Christi It is a feast to value the Sacrament of the Eucharist, and the Body and Blood of Jesus, whose origins go back to the Middle Ages, which is celebrated on Thursday after the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This year this emotional celebration is due on Thursday, June 16. This is about a feast that enjoys great tradition in all corners of the province of Jaén and is held every year with a great popular impact.

In the capital, Cathedral of Jaén it becomes the focus of the celebration and it is common for the bishop of the Diocese of Jaén to perform a special mass, and for the citizens to meet in the Plaza de Santa Maria, which is also the starting point for the procession that honors this holiday and in the participant the girls and boys who this year have made the First Communion.

Beyond the capital the Corpus Christi is lived with great passion and devotion in many municipalities of the province. In particular, Villacarillo and Villardompardo this holiday has been declared recently Good of Cultural Interest and constitutes two powerful tourist demands for the province at this time. In Villardompardo stands out the originality and the affection with which the villarengos decorate the streets of the municipality with jars, olive branches, flower petals and various sculptures made with different decorative and recycled materials. A celebration that also has the distinction of the Feast of Tourist Interest of Andalusia and that leaves no visitor indifferent.

The Corpus Christi de Villacarillo is also an emblematic and different celebration within the province, as well as the oldest and most solemn in Andalusia. This holiday has been in the statutes of the Cathedral since 1364, and has the privilege of being one of the few that are held in the afternoon. This year will take place in the afternoon of Sunday, 19 June. The Villacarillenses have made this celebration one of their main signs of identity, and in each edition a massive procession goes through the streets adorned with plants, paintings, fabrics and murals decorated with religious motives. The course of the procession is covered with carpets made of colored sawdust and flower petals.In addition, the journey is covered with large awnings, banners and hives.

The World Heritage City of Baeza is also another place in the province where the Corpus Christi is a pole of tourist attraction, a celebration that is lived with great fervor, highlighting the magna custody that the antequerano Gaspar Núñez de Castro performs, being the same a walking catechesis that will shine through the streets of the city. In addition to this work of goldsmiths, catalogued as a good of cultural interest, this celebration stands out for the solemnity of the cults that are celebrated in honor of Jesus Sacramented, as well as the eve of the Corpus where the city is set to receive in its streets the love of the loves among a bustle that recovers the monumental heart.

Other villages in the Jiennese province such as Valdepeñas de Jaén, Villanueva del Archbishop, Iznatoraf, La Carolina, Lopera or Ubeda, among others, also live very intensively this expected religious holiday. Don't miss this year. a celebration full of passion and devotion moving mountains in the province.