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Marrajos and Californios

Cartagena, Campo de Cartagena, Murcia

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Marrajos and Californios

Curiosity · Cartagena, Campo de Cartagena, Murcia

Image of Cartagena, not of the place itself.

The two great historic brotherhoods of the Semana Santa of Cartagena, the Marraja (founded in 1542) and the California (1747), whose centuries-old rivalry over the splendour of their processions, purple and crimson respectively, defines the character of the festival.

Photo: JASpencer (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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