Alhama de Murcia
26 MAR - 05 ABR
Alhama de Murcia celebrates Easter Week with processions, flowers and sweets Semana Santa (Holy Week or Easter) is probably the most important few days in the religious calendar of the Region of Murcia and is full of processions, flowers and music, commemorating the suffering and death of Jesus and his subsequent resurrection. Far removed from the world of chocolate and bunnies, Semana Santa in Murcia is a week of colourful processions, rows of penitents accompanying the ¿pasos¿ representing the last days in the life of Jesus throughout..
Totana
27 MAR - 05 ABR
The Easter Week processions and traditions are upheld in Totana (Note: if and when tickets for stands in the streets go on sale, details will be added here. Alternatively, seek information from the tourist office of Totana in the Plaza Balsa Vieja.) The Semana Santa or Holy Week celebrations in Totana are particularly well regarded and are among the most important of the Region of Murcia, featuring processions which date back to the 18th century. Nowadays the events are organized by 16 Cofradías (brotherhoods or guilds) who parade nearly..
Caravaca de La Cruz
27 MAR - 05 ABR
The main processions in Caravaca are on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Easter Week In the Holy City of Caravaca de la Cruz the first known documentary references to the celebration of Semana Santa, or Easter Week, date back to the 16th century, and there are now seven ¿cofradías¿ (brotherhoods) taking part in the processions. Most of the sculpted figures and tableaux paraded date from the 17th and 18th centuries, although it was not until the 18th that some of the processions began to climb the hill to the castle/sanctuary which..
Cartagena
27 MAR - 05 ABR
The Easter Week processions in Cartagena are the first to get under way in Spain Recommended: Friday March 22, Day of the Patrona: the floral offering at 17.00 and the Via Crucis later. Sunday March 24, Palm Sunday: the Procession of the Palms at 17.00, a children¿s procession, with a large number of participants. Wednesday March 27, Easter Wednesday: the dramatized representation of the trial of Christ in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento followed by the first of the large processions. Friday March 29, Good Friday: the long..
Águilas
27 MAR - 05 ABR
The major Semana Santa processions in Aguilas take place between Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday The Semana Santa week processions and events in Águilas take place during the whole of Easter Week, concluding on Resurrection Sunday (or Easter Sunday). The processions and acts of penitence are, of course, events charged with religious importance, but the sheer beauty of the rows of penitents, flowers and sculptures which parade during this important week are also popular with those of all religious denominations, bringing colour and spectacle..
Lorca
27 MAR - 05 ABR
Lorca celebrates Easter week in inimitably spectacular style Semana Santa in Lorca is an extraordinarily flamboyant event, the most important element of which is the famed biblical processions, a unique manifestation of faith which features the exquisite embroideries for which the city is so famous as well as exciting feats of horsemanship. These are displayed throughout the year in the embroidery museums of the Cofradías (brotherhoods or guilds), and although the most spectacular pieces are the vast cloaks worn in the main biblical processions..
Molina de Segura
01 ABR
A reenactment of the Stations of the Cross just outside Molina de Segura One of the most unusual of the many Semana Santa celebrations in the Region of Murcia takes place every year on Easter Wednesday, and was first organized in the 1980s by José Moreno, the parish priest of Torrealta, an outlying district of Molina de Segura. Sr Moreno¿s celebration consisted of a living representation in the streets of the town of the Via Crucis, and when he left the village and the tradition died out, many locals missed it. However, in 1997..
Los Alcázares
02 ABR
Four days of revelry in Los Alcázares while the rest of Murcia enjoys its Semana Santa processions While most of the rest of the Region of Murcia spends Easter Week preoccupied with its religious processions, some of them solemn and some rather less so, Los Alcázares heads in another direction and celebrates the local history with the Fiestas of the Berber Pirate Raids (¿Incursiones Berberiscas¿). These fiestas are a relatively recent addition to the calendar in Los Alcázares but, as they reach their 25th edition, have become extremely..
Yecla
03 ABR
Witness the ¿Acto de la Cortesía¿ during the Good Friday morning procession in the Plaza Mayor of Yecla This special tour of Yecla coincides with the Good Friday procession through the streets of the town with participants learning about the sculpted images and tableaux which are paraded in the Plaza Mayor. Information is also offered about some of the curiosities of Yecla¿s processions, one of which is the central feature of the visit: the Acto de la Cortesía. This pivotal moment during the Procesión de la Pasión del Señor is..
