The processions are remarkable for their artistic quality (gilding, cabinetwork), sounds and smells (incense).
Interspersed in street processions, the plays are generally performed by eight main characters supported by dancers.
Eight glorious days of elaborate runway processions, posh after-parties and celebrities clad in eye-popping ensembles.
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Today, the site is still a spot for both impromptu and arranged musical celebrations and processions.
The law on public processions is governed by section 11 of the Public Order Act 1986.
It said that the situation "raised questions" about implementing the 1998 Public Processions Act.
The dancing and brass band processions happen nearly every Sunday, except during the hottest months of summer.
He said there was confusion over police now declaring that un-notified processions to Belfast City Hall were illegal.
This was the era of Casanova's wanton memoirs and the splendid Venetian regattas and processions painted by Canaletto and Francesco Guardi.
The escorted processions consist of several companies, grouping tens, even hundreds of marchers.
The processions have their own vocabulary and expertise, and the roles and responsibilities of each individual are precisely allocated.
What about the peculiarly named Vicus Papissa, or Road of the Lady Pope, a medieval alleyway shunned by papal processions?
At Smithfield, "one of the grandest processions of market buildings in Europe is hanging in the balance, " Ms. Cecil says.
"It was a grand spectacle, with sermons and flagellants and great unveilings of holy objects, " he said, "and there were processions galore, with music".
Over Easter, several ministers will be seen taking part in religious processions.
Chief Constable Matt Baggott said un-notified processions "must now come to an end" and said the Public Processions Act needed to be reviewed.
Mr Blundell, who has been to more than 100 repatriations, said local dignitaries "valiantly turn up every time" for the processions through Carterton.
The processions, which attract many visitors from around the world, are a major factor contributing to social cohesion and the local collective psyche.
People honor the lives of lost family members or friends by building altars, holding processions, decorating gravesites and placing offerings for loved ones.
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The Shrovetide processions take place in the town of Hlinsko and six nearby villages in the Hlinecko area of Eastern Bohemia in the Czech Republic.
Today, thousands of people line up for Easter processions and make pilgrimages to old monasteries and churches that either survived Soviet times or have been restored.
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The five processions, devoted to Mary, Jesus, the Cross, the Laying in the Tomb, and the Resurrection respectively, follow a two-kilometre route through the town centre.
Half the Olympic program, on the other hand, was given over to religious ritual: processions, hymn-singing, incense-burning, gory animal sacrifice and strange incantations by exotically attired priests.
In Santa Maria, mourners lined up in a series of funeral processions, and coffins were lined up in a gymnasium that authorities had turned into a morgue.
Police officers, many of them on horseback, had a hard time controlling the crowds, as many of the bathers lingered to gaze at the colourful processions of the holy men.
Chief Constable Mr Baggott said it was "entirely right that we asked the Parades Commission to consider its role in relation to un-notified processions", adding he was grateful for the clarity.
Street processions will take place through several Cornish towns.
Under the terms of the Public Processions (NI) Act 1998, established following major disorder across Northern Ireland linked to the Drumcree dispute, notification of parades must be given to the Parades Commission.
Races too often turn into processions with little real overtaking: a blistering start by stars like Mika Hakkinen or Michael Schumacher can put one of them in front for the whole of the race, barring breakdowns or accidents.
The Shrovetide processions - banned in turn by the Catholic Church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and by the socialist government in the twentieth century - play an important role in securing cohesion within the village community.
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