Just before we left our hotel to catch a train to Seville a military procession came by right below our balcony. All uniformed personel of the city and government is allowed to participate in Semana Santa, they don’t see this as a threat against the secular state. There was a constitutional challenge in 2011, but it did not succeed: “when a religious tradition is integrated into the social fabric of a particular group, it cannot be argued that public authorities intend to convey support for or adherence to religious tenets through it.”
