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Among the new features this year also highlights the streaming video of the processions and the launch of an app that inform processions in real time.
Children will preferential treatment center.
In addition to expanding the route of the procession of the Angel, to completion cakes with egg and pills will be distributed verse.
The City Council has presented in Fitur the program of events designed to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the granting of the Charter of the city of Seville.
Holy Week of Murcia will have significant developments, both from the point of view of the celebrations and the use of new technologies, which are more present than ever.
The first step of this has been presented this morning at Fitur by the Mayor, José Ballesta, and the president of the Superior Council of Guilds, Ramon Sanchez Parra, accompanied by the Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, who report also other additions that prepares the City in tourism promotion of the municipality, namely, the commemoration of the 750th anniversary of the city or the initiatives launched to make Murcia a destination Smart Tourism, ie, an intelligent city as a tourist destination.
This year the Easter Murcia not begin, as usual, on Good Friday.
The event will start will be holding a general call.
It will be a unique event, which will take place at the Bridge of hazards, under the shrine of the Virgin of the Dangers, calling on all Murcia to attend, participate and live processions, transfers and other acts that make up the calendar Passion through the various guilds, and will take place on Saturday March 5, a week before the Procession of the Angel.
And for the first time they will be broadcast streaming and launch an app to follow in real time the route of the parade.
The use of new technologies will reach the whole world and the steps of the Murcia imagery can be viewed from anywhere.
Moreover, new generations of brothers have a special role in the celebrations and this is mainly demonstrated with two initiatives: First, expanding the route of the procession of the Angel and, secondly, sharing cakes with egg and tablets with verses for children.
With these additions are intended to enhance the role of children in Holy Week and at the same time, boost its presence in the celebrations.
Also, the Superior Council of Guilds has taken FITUR for another year, presenting the poster that promotes the Holy Week 2016, by the Colombian artist Willy Ramos, which was unveiled in Murcia on Saturday.
750th anniversary of Murcia
Murcia is celebrating the 750th anniversary of the granting of the Charter of Seville to the city and the City Council is preparing for this reason an ambitious program of cultural events to commemorate this event, which will include lectures, competitions of literature, poetry and painting, gastronomy , exhibitions and concerts.
The May 14, 1266 Alfonso X granted the city the privilege, known as the Law of Sevilla, thus creating its own law, territory is favored, in which he also gave the court and the franchises of Seville, specific provisions for the city of Murcia.
This privilege involved the constitution of the Council of Murcia, with the appointment of some of its officials (mayors, sheriffs, clerks, almotacén) and the granting of teaching and seal.
Ballesta explained that various competitions specifically aimed at children be convened because "it's important for us that the new generations are very present and know what our roots and our history."
Smart city as a tourist destination
Apart from this fundamental event that concentrate much of the role of the city this year, the City has been Fitur other significant proposals in line with the tourism promotion of the municipality.
One of them is the implementation of a set of actions to make it a destination of Murcia Tourism Smart, ie, a smart city as a tourist destination.
These measures include the establishment of new tools to improve the information provided to users of the hotels offered, where the aim is to install virtual tourist offices in their recepciones- and a mobile application to market tourism.
Tourist attractions
The presence of Murcia in the most important fair of the sector has also paid attention to gastronomy, Huerta and culture as three important pillars of its tourist attractions, which anchor the municipality as imperative to find culture, leisure, sport and gastronomy destination , all accompanied by an excellent climate throughout the year.
The visitors who have come to the exhibitor of the Region of Murcia in Fitur have seen, thanks to an innovative video with 200 images and twelve recordings made with drones, the wealth of gastronomy in Murcia and the beautiful landscapes of the garden .
Among the promotional material produced, it has also introduced two new magazines published by the City Council with all information necessary to discover the richness of Murcia Murcia Cultural and Tourism.
The first one shows the advantages of the municipality through the prism of their cultural resources, both museums, theaters, visitor centers or auditoriums.
For its part, the publication Tourism Murcia contains all the data that a visitor needs to consider when it comes to Murcia for the first time: hotel establishments, bars, restaurants and uniqueness of the garden, giving priority to the visual aspect.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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