Women Carrying Shrine During Holy Week Procession Editorial Photo

Guatemala, Sacatepequez department, city Antigua: Semana Santa or Holy Week begins in the tourist resort of Antigua already on Palm Sunday a week before Easter. For the procession lay people flower carpets. The women carriers of the heavy bar with images of the Virgin Mary and Magdalene through a street and walk while on a flower carpet. The electricity wires hanging low across the street to this enormous religious artwork so men with a long stick to push the wire up so the images underneath can. The procession takes place amid great interest from both Guatemalans and tourists.