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This is an innovative activity to enter the work developed by the brotherhoods of our city to make possible the aggrandizement of our processions.
The Councillor of Tourism in the city of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, has encouraged all Lorca and visitors during these dates are in our city to enjoy one of the most innovative activities has been launched by the city council to go into the work of preparing our Bible shows passion.
It is organized tours that take the term from "Lorca Taller del Tiempo" with the name, "The other Easter".
We are talking about a proposal that began on day 19 and may also enjoy throughout the days of Monday 21, Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 March.
The mayor of Tourism explained that these tours are the best way to approach all the ins and outs of our passion Biblical parades, declared of International Tourist Interest, to enjoy the aspects that no one usually sees: an essay bearers, floral arrangements thrones, preparing the cars, chariots and horses, the passion of a neighborhood for his images, the prayer of a Via Crucis ancestral, etc.
All tours begin at 8 pm taking as its starting point the Tourist Information Point located in the Convent of La Merced, next to the Medieval Wall.
In the day today Easter Monday will visit the ship on which the chariots, horses and floats participating in processions by the Paso Blanco guard, besides visiting the monumental environment and assist the testing performed by portapasos images Step religious Azul.
For the day of Tuesday Santo it provides for a route that includes a visit to the monumental environment, with an explanation and assistance to the procession of meeting Paso Incarnate, while the Holy Wednesday will visit the ship Paso White, environment monumental and head to Paso Morado to enjoy an explanation of the arrangement of their thrones.
The price of these tours is 7 euros for adults and 4 children (4 to 12 years).
The mayor of Tourism has stated that our Easter is the most important within the attractions of the city with a capacity of attracting visitors and tourists in the specific time of celebration much higher than the average annual event.
It also has great potential to become an important desestacionalizador element of tourism in Lorca, along with the Castle and other cultural activities, thanks to museums open embroidery all year completing a range of attractive quality product.
The importance that also has trade and hospitality of the city leading to the council to plan and carry out a strategy of promotion and communication specific to this product, which has included participation in the International Exhibition of Horse, in Seville, the most important international appointment in the equestrian scene where Lorca special guest with its own stand, a sign of lorquino embroidered with two important pieces of white and blue and with a striking and dramatic displays of handling the chariot.
Francisco Montiel has stressed that the challenge is to get visitors to come and return.
As a city, and the unity and effort of all, we must ensure that the attractiveness of Holy Week attracts attention and visitors all year round.
The work carried out to spread our Holy Week has as main purpose to increase the number of tourists and visitors during Holy Week 2016, promoting the Museums embroidered Easter as desestacionalizadores elements of tourism in Lorca, increase the number of accessions candidacy of Art Embroidery as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO, among others.
Thanks to this work promoting FITUR Easter in the City has got a wonderful response from the public with a total of 185,459 people reached.
16 persons reinforcement attention of visitors.
In addition to strengthening the focus on Municipal Tourist Office, located in the medieval city wall, in the days prior to the call and online due to the significant increase in demand for information we are receiving, the Department of Tourism increases from the Good Friday both times the Tourist Office as information points around the city center with counters at Palacio de Guevara, C / Santo Domingo outside the headquarters of El Paso White, C / Nogalte outside the headquarters of Paso Blue, city Hall Lorca in Spain Square and esplanade at the confluence of the Avenida Juan Carlos I and Avenida Santa Clara to lower the bridge next to the Mall of San Diego.
These information points manned by personnel from different companies of tourist services in the city properly trained before, offer visitors and citizens all the information needed for maximum enjoyment of Easter as the program of events and processions, the brochure courtship for better monitoring of figures in procession on Good Friday, the brochure Santa Lorca Taller del Tiempo week with all the special activities taking place in the castle and in the city and the usual information on museums and visitable monuments these days.
The total number of extra informants, such as the Good Friday besides the regular staff of the Office and Department of Tourism, will amount to 16 people.
16,000 printed to report all acts.
As usual, this booklet is sponsored by the CAJAMAR entity for 9 years.
It is distributed to all the information provided by the brotherhoods with the events organized for the Holy Week of Lorca while guides with useful information for better enjoy the same for both tourists and citizens with information.
This year also includes, as a novelty, a series of tips provided by the emergency of Lorca.
They have printed 16,000 brochures will be distributed through the offices of Cajamar (5000), in the regional tourist offices and through the counters located in the city center at Easter.
It will also be available in PDF version via the web and social networks, and in a shortened version in English online as well.
The images were provided by brotherhoods and individuals so this council also wants to thank.
As usual also, the cover includes the promotional poster for this year and the image integrates the new tourism slogan and logo of the city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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