The Easter in Lorca is the most important celebration of this municipality and was declared Celebration of National Tourist Interest in 2007. The Biblical processions and parades are religious, artistic, cultural and social manifestation that congregate not only to the citizens of Lorca but also thousands of visitors. From Friday of Sorrow to the Easter Sunday, Lorca commemorates the Passion, the Death and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

It deals with a unique spectacle that cannot be contemplated in a passive way, but that induces to a symbiosis between actors and spectators. It is an explosion of colour, beauty and intensity of the embroideries in silk and gold of the mantles, dressings, standards and flags.

The music of the marches and the hymns of the different brotherhoods, the determination of the horses and the grandiosity of its thrones and floats; the shouts and the ‘vivas’ ;the rain of flowers to the passage of the Virgins... It is an explosion of passion and fervour to the Virgins of the Dolores and the Bitterness or ‘Amargura’.

The different brotherhoods organize these Biblical processions and parades. The White Step and the Blue Step, the ‘Paso Blanco and Paso Azul’, are two brotherhoods in permanent rivalry that dye with ‘blue and white’ the city of Lorca. They are the ones in charge to give to life on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday to the old civilizations, with multitude of Biblical personages. Other
Brotherhoods or steps give a religious content and symbolism to this Easter: Paso Morado, Paso Encarnado, La Curia y el Resucitado, or the Dwelled Step, Incarnated Step, the Bar and the Revived one respectively.

Holy Week in Lorca cannot be counted. It is necessary to see it and to live it.

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