HOLY WEEK
Festivities
Cieza
An eminently passionate and processions-lover village, whose first Nazarene demonstration date from the end of the 15th century. Since its dawn, the Holy Week of Cieza has evolved to offer the current visitor lots of values and hints which ...
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Jumilla
We use the terms"distinctive", "different" and even "exceptional" when referring to Lorca's, Cartagena's or Murcia's Holy Week. Regarding Jumilla, the concept of Passion over there has little to do ...
HOLY WEEK
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Cartagena
The International Tourist Interest of Cartagena's Holy Week defines what is going to be experienced by the visitor these days. A quick look at the routes and timetables programs will give you a clue. The processions in Cartagena have ...
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Calasparra
In Calasparra it is possible to attend to a celebration that the city lives with special enthusiasm and participation. This celebration commemorates the moment when Jesus was captured in the Garden of Olives. The representation is held in the ...
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Archena
In the morning of Good Friday, Archena celebrates the "Procession of the Encuentro Doloroso". The "Encuentro Doloroso" is held after thrones and nazarenes formed in long queues and go out of the Church of Saint Juan Bautista. ...
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Alhama de Murcia
The Holy Week of Alhama de Murcia is awarded regional tourist interest status. It has preserved for centuries a legacy with an important cultural and artistic heritage which allows, every year, that this celebration becomes a religious manifestation ...
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Alcantarilla
In 1590 the Church of Saint Pedro Apóstol was inaugurated. Then, at the end of the 16th century, the first brotherhoods emerge and create their own hallmarks. In the 1950s the first brotherhoods were reestablished and new ones were created. ...
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Abarán
The Holy Week processions in Abarán are some of the most colourful and beautiful ones in the Region of Murcia. Not surprisingly, it is declared as event of Regional Tourist Interest since 1985. The religious and the civil shake hands, ...
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Totana
Holy Week in Totana is a mix of tradition and modernity and brings together a multitude of men and women on its days of celebrations. In fact, the most settled tradition in Totana is "dressing like a nazarene", a kind of magical call ...
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Murcia
Anyone attending a procession in Murcia for the first time, specially one of the most popular processions, will witness a series of astounding images that have no equal in Spain. A celebration such as the Holy Week only gains personality and ...
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Yecla
Nineteen Fraternities and Brotherhoods, nine bands of cornets and drums and musical unions, and more than three thousand members of the brotherhood, march along the streets of the city, accompanying forty two statues in the eleven processions ...
Holy Week in Lorca
Festivities
Lorca
Up to this moment, for one reason or another, the peculiar way of celebrating the Holy Week in different towns of Región de Murcia has been pointed out. But when it comes to Lorca, we need to speak of uniqueness: something you never ...
Homenaje a la mujer
Monuments
Molina de Segura
La Chimenea de Hernández Gil perteneció a la antigua fábrica de conserva de El Pelícano. Al derribar la instalación en su solar se hizo un jardín, el Huerto Fayrén, donde permanece la chimenea. A su lado podemos admirar la escultura del artista ...
