The processions and historical biblical parades of the Holy Week in Lorca, were declared a Tourist National Interest in 1967 and make up the most important celebration during the year and possibly the only religious, artistic, cultural event that Lorca gives in all its illustrious history. It is the "holiday of Lorca", which identifies and fills everyone and anyone that has been born in Lorca, so called "City of the Sun" with pride. During these days, those who live or visit Lorca will be surprised and amazed at the unusual and powerful memory of the Passion, Death and Jesus de Nazareth's Resurrection.

The city of Lorca, monumental and baroque was declared a noble city in 1442, turns into a piece of new Jerusalem, into a copy of the thousand-year-old capital, unrivalled drama where the Ancient Testament is represented in the evening, alive and in movement, the Sacred History; they take a body and there re-arise from the tunnel of the time when these people and civilizations of the oriental Antiquity that they occupied, they invaded or conquered the Increasing Fertile one and the Ground of Canaán; where a fascinating recreation passes, before the thousands of eyes of those who contemplate the Courtship Bíblico-Pasionario, like a living tapestry of the principal facts of the History of the Salvation and of the Elected People, which culminate in the Resurrection of the Son of the Man, an essential part of the whole Mystery of the Redemption

Kings, emperors, priests, warriors of Assyria, Babylonia, Persian, Egyptian, Roman, Macedonian, Israelite ... parade richly decked in velvets, robes, cloaks, tunics and folders embroidered by hand in multicoloured silks, in groups astride, on foot or by car, re-lived through scenes and episodes chosen from the Bible, creating an outstanding procession and a popular spectacle that is impossible to forget, created in a splendid explosion of art showing the creative vitality that few people have been able to construct and rein-act this time in cultural heritage of magnificent beauty and splendour.

The Lorcan Courtship is an unheard-of and infrequent exteriorization of the peculiar goodness of the men and women of Lorca, which continues to feel with the same intensity as centuries ago, the thousands of visitors who every year come to live and feel the Holy Week of Lorca, which does not limit itself to staging only the Passion. The Death and Resurrection of Jesus de Nazareth's by means of sculptural images, this is also totally unique: before the extraordinary staging of the Bible in the streets of Lorca, which allows you to appreciate in all dimension a wonderful historical - cultural trip full of contrasts between the penitential courtships and the history of the bible.


Being present in Lorca during the Holy Week proves to be an unforgettable personal experience it is difficult to describe but the processions of Lorca are of an incredible stateliness for the artistic wealth of the embroideries in multicoloured silks, there is no comparison with those of any other place of Spain, not even in events of the calibre of those that happen in the same dates in Seville, Cuenca, Malaga, Valladolid or Zamora, for mentioning several other significant examples.

Besides this, the Holy Week of Lorca is also different for its noble religious images, at a height of other notable samples of the art carved in wood; dynamic Mediterranean colour brightly lit streets and squares, which are a part of an urban environment where the stone, the history and the ornamental and architectural beauty are felt by every step; and especially, it is different for the passion of the feelings that the Lorcan people express, the entire population through that from voice to impudent scream, demonstrates the devoutness concerning the Virgin, you will not find this is many other towns.

All of this verifies that Holy Week in Lorca is an event of International tourist Interest can seem nothing but obvious. It is undoubtedly of universal interest, and it deserves to be and is worthy of this consideration.