--- title: 'Semana Santa Marinera gives up the 19 March processions to let the 2027 Cremà burn in peace' url: 'https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/semana-santa-marinera-crema-2027' markdown: 'https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/semana-santa-marinera-crema-2027.md' lang: en date: '2026-10-18' description: "The Junta Mayor of the Semana Santa Marinera, which brings together 31 brotherhoods, will hold no processional acts on 19 March 2027: that day St Joseph's feast, the Cremà of the Fallas and Good Friday of Sorrows all coincide. The Dolorosa virgins will still process at the Encuentro." taxonomy: category: - news tag: - semana-santa-marinera - crema - '2027' - valencia-city-council - coexistence-of-festivals - poblados-maritimos --- ![Semana Santa Marinera gives up the 19 March processions to let the 2027 Cremà burn in peace](https://grav.fallas.es/user/pages/01.noticias/semana-santa-marinera-crema-2027/semana_santa_crema_art.png) # Semana Santa Marinera gives up the 19 March processions to let the 2027 Cremà burn in peace 18/10/2026 [semana-santa-marinera](https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/tag:semana-santa-marinera) [crema](https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/tag:crema) [2027](https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/tag:2027) [valencia-city-council](https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/tag:valencia-city-council) [coexistence-of-festivals](https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/tag:coexistence-of-festivals) [poblados-maritimos](https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/tag:poblados-maritimos) The 2027 calendar has forced Valencia's two great festivals to come to terms, and they have done so gracefully. The **Junta Mayor of the Semana Santa Marinera**, which brings together the **31 brotherhoods, corporations and confraternities** of the seaside districts, has decided **not to hold processional acts on Friday 19 March** — the day when the feast of **St Joseph**, the **Cremà of the Fallas** and **Good Friday of Sorrows** all coincide. The decision was reached at a technical meeting chaired by the councillor for Festivities and Traditions, **Mónica Gil**, and the councillor for Fallas, **Santiago Ballester**, with the president of the Junta Mayor, **José Manuel Orduña**, its board and the municipal services involved —Local Police, Planning, Mobility, Public Domain and Fire Brigade— to move forward with the drafting of the **2027 Semana Santa Marinera Bando**. The renunciation is voluntary, the Junta Mayor said, and aims to ease the organisation of an exceptional day and the workload of the municipal services. There are nuances: the Dolorosa virgins will not process on Good Friday of Sorrows, but they will take part in the **Encuentro**, within the Semana Santa Marinera programme. The agreement includes one concrete request to the fallero side: from **20 March** onwards, the flags, lights and fallero marquees that could interfere with the **more than 80 processions** planned between 20 and 28 March in the seaside districts should be removed as soon as possible. Ballester stressed that the Fallero Bando must take into account the peculiarities of this neighbourhood, where fallas and Holy Week have coexisted intensely for decades. "We are facing an exceptional calendar and the best way to tackle it is to work together, with responsibility and respect for the needs of both celebrations," Mónica Gil summed up. With the gesture of the Junta Mayor, the night of 19 March 2027 will be able to burn with no company other than gunpowder. **Sources:** - València City Council, 15 Oct 2026 — [Semana Santa Marinera will not hold processions on 19 March to ease coexistence with the Cremà of the Fallas](https://www.valencia.es/cas/actualidad/-/content/semana-santa-marinera-i-sant-josep-valenci%C3%A0) - Levante-EMV, 15 Oct 2026 — [Semana Santa Marinera will not hold processions on 19 March to ease coexistence with the Cremà of the Fallas](https://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2026/10/15/semana-santa-marinera-celebrara-procesiones-135359773.html) - Valencia Extra, 15 Oct 2026 — [Valencia gives way without processions on 19 March 2027: Semana Santa Marinera gives up Good Friday of Sorrows so the fallas can burn in peace](https://www.valenciaextra.com/es/valencia/valencia-cede-sin-procesiones-el-19-de-marzo-de-2027-la-semana-santa-marinera-renuncia-al-viernes-de-dolores-para-que-las-fallas-ardan-en-paz_600969_102.html) *Article written by AI (Notifallas) for fallas.es.* --- ## Navigation - Parent: [Fallas de València](https://grav.fallas.es/en/index.md) - Previous: [Rain alert suspends Sunday's fallero agenda: Balls al Carrer will have to wait](https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/agenda-fallera-suspendida-lluvias-2026.md) - Next: [The last night of gunpowder: the Alameda bids farewell to the 20th International Symposium on Fireworks with over 500 experts from 42 countries](https://grav.fallas.es/en/noticias/clausura-simposio-pirotecnia-alameda-2026.md)