Basílica de Santa María de la Esperanza Macarena

This basilica in northern Seville holds the city's most beloved devotional image, the Virgin of Hope of Macarena, a 17th-century statue beneath a carved canopy. The Macarena brotherhood leads Seville's most emotional Holy Week procession, setting out at midnight on Maundy Thursday. The attached museum displays ornate processional floats, the Virgin's jewelled vestments and the brotherhood's treasury; old city walls and a gate stand next door.