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Holy Week Leon in Leon
Leon's Holy Week combines standard Castilian religious processions past the Gothic cathedral with the Entierro de Genarin, an unofficial late-night satirical procession honoring a local wine merchant killed by a rubbish truck, held through the Barrio Humedo tapas district in the small hours of Good Friday.
Leon's Holy Week runs the standard cycle of processions through a historic center anchored by the city's Gothic cathedral, but it is best known outside strictly religious circles for the Entierro de Genarin, an unofficial, satirical counter-procession held in the small hours of Good Friday that has nothing to do with the church calendar it parodies.