Nerja Stars

8-points: a Star is re-born:

Other Stars:

Easter week Processions are organized by religious groups called hermandades or cofradías. Members of these cofradías and those participating in processions are called nazarenos, hermanos or cofrades.

Some cover their face with a cloth & a cardboard hat on top in the shape of a 3D-star-point, called capirote. Those that carry the Jesus float as penitence are often called Costaleros:

Oxen as stars
at the agrarian festival of San Isidro:

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