León is prepared to intensely live the most touching and close days of the calendar. Significant dates for thousand from families pertaining to the sixteen brotherhoods and brotherhoods of León arrive. And it is that the Holy Week of León has managed to consolidate like one of most excellent of our community and our country, thanks fundamentally to our brotherhoods, that year after year they favor the participation and the solidarity of the citizenship, and that also come playing a very important role in the conservation from our cultural patrimony.

Our tradition and customs have made of this religious feeling and its spirit an event with noticeable tourist character, that every year attracts more visitors confirming the international recognition of our Holy Week. Today this commemoration, that maintains throughout the years its signs of identity, is a tourist supply of first order thanks to the knowledge to do of all people of León, to its individual and collective commitment.
To disclose the values and peculiarities of the Holy Week through publications as this one, contributes to the greatness of the dates that we arrange ourselves to live. Only reduces me to express my desire with which the Holy Week of this year fill your expectations and helps to improve this religious and cultural manifestation still more.

Mario Amilivia González
Mayor of León