Tamborada drum festival and Easter Week in Hellín

The highlight of Easter Week in Hellín, Albacete, is the Tamborada. This is the town's most important festival, when the sound of up to 20,000 drums fills the streets, creating a thundrous roar that lasts for several days.

At midnight on Maundy Thursday, the most important tamborada of these festivities takes place. In stark contrast to this tremendous hum of drums, on Good Friday night the procession of the Holy Burial takes place, marked by silence and solemn reflection. This parade includes the carved image of the Recumbent Christ, by the sculptor Mariano Benlliure, considered a masterpiece of 20th-century sculpture. A final tamborada, from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon, puts an end to Easter Week in Hellín, after a massive release of doves.