Exhibitions
Moratalla
¡Moratalla se llena de arte! Inauguración Herederas del Sol una exposición única de Bartolomé Palazón. Descubre un diálogo fascinante entre lo tradicional y lo tecnológico: desde madera y vidrio hasta impresión 3D con materiales biodegradables. Una obra cargada de emoción dedicada a la memoria de su padre. Lugar: Sala del Convento de San Francisco, Moratalla. Inauguración: Viernes 15 de mayo a las 20h. Hasta el 15 de junio. ¡No te pierdas esta joya del Plan EXE!
Holiday accommodation
Mula
Se trata de una antigua casa rústica reconstruida a partir de una ruina en 2010. Restaurada respetando su estructura antigua, esta maravillosa casa tiene vistas a Mula, a Sierra Espuña y al histórico castillo de Mula. El pueblo está a pocos pasos. Mula tiene muchas fiestas durante todo el año; las más populares son la Noche de los Tambores en Semana Santa, declarada de Interés Turístico Internacional
Festivities
Cehegín
En la noche de la Fiesta de San Sebastián, los vecinos realizan una peculiar romería portando antorchas hasta una gran hoguera en honor al santo. La tradición surgió para pedir al santo ser protegidos contra las pestes o los fuertes vientos. También hay degustación de gastronomía local, romería del santo y bendición de naranjas y flechas. La celebración dura todo un fin de semana a finales de enero.
Festivities
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 with that concept in those other places, and this represents an invitation for the visitor to experience the wide range of possibilities offered by Región de Murcia when it comes to celebrations and traditions. Jumilla, not forgetting its roots from Levante -southeastern Spain-, seems to look towards the plateau of Castilla, where a great sobriety prevails. Still, its sobriety, austerity and strictness do not mean a lack of show. Jumilla is full of moderate, concentrated show, intensity and total devotion. Its processions and its people conserve the spirit of the Middle Ages with which they were born: the didactic work implied by this martyr exhibition. It was necessary to explain what the death of Christ was and how and why it took place, together with the biblical verses. There was nobody better than the Franciscan order -that settled in Jumilla with a missionary vocation- to make it possible that, even before the 15th Century, the celebration of processions were much more than the images' leaving of the temples. Almost each day of the Holy Week, apart from the processions, something significant takes place: public representations of Christ's capture, thrones and images being moved from their Churches of origin to the processions' starting points, traditional opening speeches, or the romería -pilgrimage-, either from San Agustín Hermitage or from Santa Ana Monastery (a place worth a visit, counting on craggy approaches and with a view to a privileged spot). During the day or night Brotherhoods' routes, those visiting Jumilla will have the impression that they are surrounded by a new and amazing atmosphere. During the day, due to the sky's intensity, which multiplies the singularity of anything that may happen. At night, since the smell of flowers and burnt wax, together with the hurt and rhythmic music in some narrow streets, are responsible for pictures that are as powerful as time travel.
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 make it unique in comparison with the rest of the southeast of Spain. Cieza knows how to show in its Holy Week that there can be a contemporary and traditional mix, and that fidelity to religious rites and celebrations can also take part in the festive part. Cieza also knows how to mix the aspects of sacred and profane worlds, which may yearn for the same. In these dates, in a square, in a street, we can attend an Auto Sacramental, but also an intense sweets rain, the roar of jubilation of drums and the reflexive concentration of the nights in which it is admired the pain of a dying Christ transfixed by a lance, almost gravitating over a city in the dark. Attending so many withdrawals is impressive. But at the same time concerts are held other days, moves of statues, children processions with the tots of the different brotherhoods, fireworks, or Palm leaves are blessed or proclamations about the Nazarene.
Festivities
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. Then, during its way to the Plaza de España the "Encuentro Doloroso" takes place between the images of Saint Juan, the Virgin of los Dolores and Our Father Jesús Nazareno. Thousands of people observe this representation, with background music played by the Centuria Romana, which always accompanies the "Nazareno". Later, in the stillness and silence of this day the sermon, which is given in the balcony of the town council, can be heard. The procession continues in the oldest part of the town, to celebrate the "Encuentro of the Nazareno" a second time, but this time with La Verónica, in whose cloth the face of Jesus Christ still remains. This morning, the "marchas" (musical march) of the Centuria Romana of Archena are very characteristic, these pieces of music accompany the well-known "puntos", also played along the walk. The Centuria Romana want to represent with the aggressiveness of their lances the moment when the centurion Longino stuck his in the side of Christ.
