Lorca is a crossbreeding of towns and cultures to which the present-day Murcian and Andalusian influence is superimposed. This reality becomes evident in the variety and riches of the Festivals and lorquian traditions.

Some parties have their origin in acts of God, like the festivities that agree with summer solstice, Saint John, or the winter's equinox, at Christmas. Other ones are related to the agricultural tasks such as the sow, reap, thresh or wine harvest that were the base for celebrations related with protective gods of agriculture and that at a later time, they were Christianized.

The popular lorquian culture is almost preserved intact in the deputations and its celebrations are a reflection of habits and traditions of last epochs: the Blessing and auction of the Waters of souls, the processions of a patron saint, musicians' dances of the leather bag with ‘cuadrillas’ in Zarzadilla of Totana; the Picking up of rosemary and the bonfires the night of Saint John in Coy; the Christmas' songs or Christmas bonuses of the ‘cuadrillas’ at La Hoya, Purias, Zarzalico ...

We also highlight the Pilgrimages that are celebrated, habitually the days related to the patron or the patroness saint, at the rural hermitages. In addition to the religious acts, the dances of bid or ‘subastaos’ take place. These dances are celebrated in honour of the patron of the place.

In like manner, in spring, the burning of the figures of straw to impede the disasters of nature takes place. In Morata and also in Almendricos, two puppets, the John and the Jane were burnt off at Saint John's Day. In the city of Lorca, ‘the Judahs’ were also burning on Easter Saturday , at several neighbourhoods and streets. The ‘Asociación Belenista of Lorca’ has recovered this tradition when burning the Judas at the Spain square.