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Holy Week in Cieza

Cieza, Vega Alta del Segura, Murcia

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Holy Week in Cieza

Activity · Cieza, Vega Alta del Segura, Murcia

Holy Week in Cieza (Region of Murcia), more than 600 years old and the town's most popular event with visitors. It was declared of Regional Tourist Interest in 1993, of National Tourist Interest in 2011 following an unprecedented citizens' movement, and of International Tourist Interest on 23 March 2023. Its processions are notable for following the chronological order of the biblical narrative. The city's eighteen brotherhoods organize parades involving more than 5,000 people, with a total of 43 processional floats, most of them carvings by renowned sculptors such as José Capuz, Romero Zafra, Álvarez Duarte and José Planes, as well as local sculptor Manuel Juan Carrillo. It also has its own musical repertoire, with pieces by the Cieza-born composer José Gómez Villa.

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Photo: Antonio Camacho García (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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