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A Sephardic poetry recital, by the Guerra Theater Company, and a Sephardic music concert by the 'D o Hispania' will be the activities organized for the Festivity of the Luminaries this year.
The event will be broadcast live through the Facebook of Turismo de Lorca The Vice Mayor of Lorca and Councilor for Tourism, Francisco Morales, presented this morning together with the Councilor for Culture, Mar a ngeles Mazuecos, and the President of the San Clemente Federation, Luis Torres del Alc zar, the acts related to the Hanukkah Festival, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary in Lorca.
Francisco Morales has indicated that "the acts of the Hanukkah festival, organized in Lorca by the San Clemente Federation in collaboration with the Department of Tourism, are intended to publicize this tradition of the Jewish religion, which was already celebrated during the Middle Ages in the Synagogue located in the grounds of the Castle of Lorca ".
Since the San Clemente Federation, Patron of Lorca, decided to recover in 2010 the Hanukkah Festival, which was not celebrated in the City of the Sun since the Decree of Expulsion of the Jews, the This act has become the culmination of the Patron Saint Festivities after ten years.
Hanukkah commemorates the Miracle of Oil in the Temple of Jerusalem after the Hasmonean Revolution against the Selecid Greek Empire, where with a jug of oil he fed the Menorah for eight days when only I could do it for you.
The mayor of Tourism has indicated that Hanukkah will be on Saturday, December 12 at 6:00 p.m.
in the Lorca Castle Synagogue and has adapted to sanitary restrictions with a very limited capacity.
Morales has indicated that this year, to celebrate it, on the occasion of the anniversary, the San Clemente Federation together with the Department of Tourism have organized a Sephardic poetry recital that will be in charge of the Theater Company Guerra and a Sephardic music concert by 'D o Hispania' with a repertoire of the Festival of the Luminaries ".
The president of the San Clemente Federation, Luis Torres del Alc zar, stressed that "those attending the event, who may only attend under strict invitation to the established sanitary measures, will receive the typical Sufganiots, a typical Hanukkah sweet that has been made by the Federation of Women's Organizations of Lorca, according to the strictest Kosher recipe ".
To end the event, which will be broadcast live through the Facebook of Turismo de Lorca, and after the concert and the poetry recital, the 'D o Hispania', a group of verse and wood formed by the actress and singer Reyes Aznar and the classical guitarist Ram n Vergara.
Since their foundation in 2012 they have toured numerous international festivals in ten countries on three continents and have premiered numerous poetic-musical recitals.
In 2019 they won the Jury Prize of the 'Encinart National Festival'.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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