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Holy Week in Archena

Archena, Valle de Ricote, Murcia

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Holy Week in Archena

Activity · Archena, Valle de Ricote, Murcia

Image of Archena, not of the place itself.

The Semana Santa of Archena brings together the set of acts, processions and brotherhoods the town has held during Lent and Holy Week for around 500 years; already in the 15th century there is record of the Domingo de Ramos procession, and in the 16th that of Jueves Santo was added, with penitents who walked the Way of the Cross. In the 18th century the cofradía de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno was founded, the oldest of the current ones, and around that time the image of the Virgen de los Dolores was incorporated. Declared a Fiesta de Interés Turístico Regional in 1995, on the morning of Viernes Santo the Procesión del Encuentro Doloroso takes place, in which the images of San Juan, the Virgen de los Dolores and Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno meet in the plaza de España after leaving the iglesia de San Juan Bautista.

Marzo o abril, Semana Santa

Photo: Elgaard (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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