New rural hacienda joins 1,485 beds as bookings soar 70% ahead of Holy Week Lorca's hotels and tourist stays are filling up fast for Easter, with peak days from Maundy Thursday to Easter Saturday already at full capacity. Other days sit at 70% booked, while the Parador de Turismo is at 60%, according to Juan Francisco Martínez, director of the Murcia Region Tourism Institute (ITREM). The town now offers 1,485 beds, up 255 since January 2025 thanks..

A few seats are still left for the spectacular biblical processions of Lorca With just a few weeks to go before the city of Lorca divides its loyalties between the “Blues” and the “Whites” for the colourful and spectacular processions of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, there are still some tickets left for seats with a great view of the daredevil horsemanship and magnificent embroidery as some of the events of the Old Testament are recreated..

Lorca celebrates Easter week in inimitably spectacular style Semana Santa in Lorca is an extraordinarily flamboyant event, the most important element of which is the famed biblical processions, a unique manifestation of faith which features the exquisite embroideries for which the city is so famous as well as exciting feats of horsemanship. These are displayed throughout the year in the embroidery museums of the Cofradías (brotherhoods or..

The procession of the Stations of the Cross has been held in Lorca on Good Friday for over 400 years In March 2025 a new museum was opened in Lorca devoted entirely to the “Via Crucis” which is held every year during the famed Semana Santa celebrations in the city, with the purpose of holding a range of exhibitions throughout the year. The MUVIC museum already includes many items related to the procession along the Stations of the Criss..

The spectacular embroideries of Semana Santa in Lorca can be seen throughout the year in these four museums Lorca embroideries are famed throughout Spain Every town and city in the Region of Murcia has its curiosities, quirks and unique traditions, but none is as colourful and passionate as the Semana Santa (Easter week) celebrations in the City of Lorca, the outstanding feature of this extraordinary week being the embroideries created..

Lorca is famed for the embroideries featured in the annual biblical processions in Easter Week (Semana Santa) One of the most impressive and ebullient expressions of faith which can be seen anywhere in the Region of Murcia is the remarkable collection of embroidered pieces which the Lorca brotherhoods continue to expand and parade during the annual Easter week (Semana Santa) processions in the City of Lorca. The "Biblical processions..

Exquisite embroidery features in the annual biblical processions of Lorca Semana Santa (Easter week) in Lorca is an extraordinary week, as although the religious acts follow the similar pattern of processions charting the last acts of drama in the life of Christ, as in other parts of Spain, the city stands out for its exceptional embroideries and the "biblical processions" in which they parade. Although the brotherhoods of Lorca..

The museum contains pieces relating to the Semana Santa processions in Lorca Lorca has gained a fully justified reputation for artistic creativity due to the incredible biblical processions of Semana Santa week, the robes, standards and embroideries taking artistic creativity to a new level. Four brotherhoods work throughout the year to not only maintain and restore their existing collections, but also continue to amplify them, constantly..

This is one of four museums dedicated to the embroideries of the Semana Santa processions in Lorca The Museo de Bordados del Paso Encarnado, often known by the acronym MuPaEn, is one of four museums in Lorca  dedicated to the remarkable embroideries associated with the biblical processions which are held in Semana Santa (Easter Week) every year in the city of Lorca. The Paso Encarnado, officially entitled the Archicofradía del Santísimo..