Annual feast
For hermandad boards of government, tourism desks, hospitality teams and protocol teams that need nazareno apparel, station-of-penitence tickets, commemmorative pieces and press kits ready for the eight processional days across the historic centre and the Carrera Oficial, from 29 March to 5 April 2026. EUR pricing with 21% IVA on B2B invoices through FACe and the Suministro Inmediato de Información (SII) of the Agencia Tributaria (AEAT), shipped from the Madrid hub to a hotel in the centre or a caseta of the brotherhood.
Semana Santa in Seville packs eight days of processions in which roughly sixty penitential hermandades make their station of penitence from their church to the Cathedral. La Madrugá of Good Friday is the peak: between one and seven in the morning, four brotherhoods close the most anticipated cycle of the Spanish cofradía calendar —El Silencio, La Esperanza Macarena, El Gran Poder and La Esperanza de Triana— with silence broken only by spontaneous saetas sung from balconies of the old quarter. The Carrera Oficial organises the shared route with timber barriers, rows of chairs and viewing stands installed by the Consejo General de Hermandades y Cofradías; daily attendance across the week is measured in hundreds of thousands, peaking on the Madrugá and on Resurrection Sunday.
For hermandad boards of government, tourism desks, hospitality teams, press offices and corporates receiving guests during the Madrugá, the merch brief is unusual. The boards of government renew each year the nazareno station-of-penitence tickets and the cords; tourism desks equip their casco guides and Carrera Oficial stewards with branded polos and caps; hotels and restaurants in the centre refresh their service apparel and tableware for the strong days; and corporates receiving clients or authorities need guest station-of-penitence tickets, named commemorative pieces and press kits ready before the Madrugá. The cofradía colour palette —the colours of each brotherhood, deep burgundy, ivory, antique gold, rigorous black— drives the textile and decoration decisions.
Logistics in the historic centre during Semana Santa are restrictive. The Carrera Oficial barriers close the most commercial streets of the centre, and vehicle access is reduced to very narrow windows between processions. Most teams therefore schedule deliveries to a hotel warehouse, a caseta outside the centre or a point in Triana in the early morning, and move the merch on foot in the breaks between processions. It pays to plan the production schedule with healthy margin: the Madrugá does not wait, and station-of-penitence tickets, nazareno cords and capirotes have to arrive several days in advance for named delivery at the caseta of the brotherhood.
The typical cofradía rotation kit combines station-of-penitence tickets printed or engraved on laid paper, nazareno cords and threads in the colours approved by the board of government, capirotes in velvet or satin with embroidered brooch, tunics and capes for the junta de gobierno, polos and white shirts for the tourism desk, fans and corporate medallions for VIP guests, and commemorative pieces of the station-of-penitence —figures, scapulars and presentation cases— for authorities and visiting press. The textile choice mixes satin and velvet for the nazareno pieces, with combed cotton and linen for service uniforms of hotel staff and casco guides.
Station-of-penitence tickets on laid paper or parchment with traditional typography, nazareno cords and threads in the colours approved by the junta de gobierno, capirotes and antifaz in velvet or satin with embroidered coat of arms. Each allocation is packed by name and section of the brotherhood, and labelled with nazareno number and citación time at the church.
White and burgundy polos, shirts and capes for tourism desks, official guides, Carrera Oficial stewards and accessibility staff. Sizes split by shift, exact Pantone branding in the colours approved by each desk, and lanyards in Spanish and English for the week’s rotation.
Embroidered polos and aprons for hotels and restaurants of the historic centre serving the Lenten menu through the week, menu and bill-holder covers bilingual ES/EN/FR/DE, branded place mats and recurring gift pieces for clients who book the same Carrera Oficial stand year after year.
Spanish and English press packs including credential and a Madrugá dossier, presentation cases and corporate medallions for guests and authorities, scapulars and cofradía keepsakes for corporate clients attending a specific station of penitence, delivered by name to the hotel or the caseta of the brotherhood.
Artwork, quantities, Pantone reference by brotherhood and the named consignee at each church, hotel or office have to be locked before production starts. Seville’s casco histórico is closed to traffic during the strong processional days, so Carrera Oficial deliveries work best in the early morning before the brotherhood leaves its church, or in the long midday pause between processions. Most teams split the shipment between a buffer pallet in a central hotel or in Triana, and named consignments to each caseta or starting church. The 21% IVA is added on the B2B invoice and reported either through FACe (the e-invoicing platform of the Administración General del Estado) or the Suministro Inmediato de Información (SII) of the Agencia Tributaria (AEAT); EU intra-Community dispatches use the reverse-charge mechanism with a valid VIES NIF. Some promotional or printed items may fit the Spanish 10% reduced rate when they meet the corresponding category, which we confirm line by line on the quote.
Semana Santa 2026 starts on Palm Sunday, 29 March, and ends on Resurrection Sunday, 5 April. Processions extend from the afternoon of Viernes de Dolores through Resurrection Sunday, with the Madrugá of Good Friday as the peak between one and seven in the morning. The Consejo General de Hermandades y Cofradías publishes the official calendar of exits and entries each year.
Yes, with planning. The casco histórico restricts vehicle access during the strong days, so we usually deliver to a central hotel, a Triana office or a nearby warehouse before the brotherhood leaves. For deliveries inside the starting church we coordinate with the diputado mayor of the board of government and use the window between the previous brotherhood’s exit and the next one’s arrival.
Boards of government typically order 200–1,500 station tickets per hermandad and 100–800 nazareno pieces; tourism desks 50–200 service polos and 200–600 giveaways; central hotels and restaurants 25–80 staff polos and 100–400 hospitality pieces; and corporate teams with stands or guests 30–150 VIP kits. We size the run by named allocation and can split one order across several hermandades.
No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps hermandad boards, tourism desks, hospitality teams and event teams prepare their own merch for Semana Santa in Seville. It does not organise, sponsor or represent the Consejo General de Hermandades y Cofradías, the Archdiocese of Seville or any individual brotherhood.
Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier for hermandad boards, tourism desks, hospitality teams and event teams. This page helps participating companies prepare their own merch for Semana Santa in Seville; it does not represent the Consejo General de Hermandades y Cofradías, the Archdiocese of Seville or any individual brotherhood.
For post-Madrugá follow-up, the typical workflow combines returned-to-stock apparel (any piece the standing crew did not use on the named allocation) returned to a Seville or Madrid buffer, a numbered merchandise reconciliation against the named-consignee list at each caseta, and a delivery report with photos of the assembly point and the standing crew. The reconciliation is useful both for the next edition’s order (size mix, quantity per section of the brotherhood, decoration method per piece) and for any VAT/IVA records the participating company needs to keep for the Agencia Tributaria (AEAT). If your team works with the Hermandad’s cabildo on a long-term basis, we can store the master artwork in a shared asset library so that the next cycle reuses approved designs.