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The Director General of Tourism, Enrique Ujaldón, today the actions of Cieza Easter, declared of National Tourist Interest in November 2011.
He was accompanied by the mayor of Cieza, Antonio Tamayo, and President of the Board of Fraternities Pasionarias, Joaquin Gomez.
Ujaldón stressed that "this statement ratifies Cieza Easter as one of the largest in Spain, which is achieved through the efforts and the work of many generations that continue procesionando and increasing wealth are so spectacular that the guilds of this municipality. "
During Holy Week ciezana involves 18 brotherhoods, which are the Passionate Fraternities Board, one of the oldest in Spain, having been founded in 1914.
In total, in the Easter parade ciezana 43 steps and 13 steps for children, in a total of ten processions.
In addition to the processions are carried out various activities, both liturgical and cultural, such as lectures, publications, presentations of new works of art and concerts.
Among the highlight of Holy Week Cieza, it is worth noting imagery collection, with works by Alvarez Duarte, Gonzalez Moreno, Capuz Jose Plans, Palma Burgos Hernández Navarro, Marco Carrillo and Romero Zafra, including accredited sculptors.
Also, music is a fundamental cultural value of Cieza Easter, because it has its own assets comprised of 40 original compositions from pasodobles, marches and hymns created over two centuries.
Of these marches include such well-known inside and outside the regional boundaries as 'The Christ of Forgiveness' or 'Easter Cieza'.
Of the processions ciezanas deserve special mention of the Arrest, preceded by the enactment of the Gospel of the prison time of Christ, the Silent, the Entombment, the All Souls, with a spectacular tour through the old town, and the Resurrection, which leads the popular act of 'courtesy'.
Source: CARM
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