The departments of Education and Tourism of the City of San Javier have developed this week a series of didactic lectures in explaining to the pupils in the second cycle of the particular precedence Easter pinatarense and differences with other municipalities in the region.
The City of San Javier, through the departments of Education and Tourism, has launched this week a series of lectures and teaching, which is explained to students the holiday and tourist aspect of Holy Week pinatarense.
These talks, given by the staff of Tourism, aims of the municipality that children know the tradition of the Easter pinatarense, impact tourism and the particularities that distinguish it from the processions that take place in other municipalities.
Thus, it is explained that pinatarenses processions are the only performed in the basin of the Mar Menor, as neighboring municipalities such as San Javier and Los Alcazares not celebrate Easter, and that the holiday has been declared of Regional Tourist Interest.
The colors and symbols that distinguish each guild, the number of groups that exist in the municipality, age and artistic importance of the thrones or how it has evolved and grown participation in Holy Week since its inception, are some of the features are highlighted in this talk.
In addition, children learn about other curiosities of Holy Week in different parts of the Region, as the "arrest" of San Pedro in Cartagena, parades biblical passion of Lorca, carbides miners carrying the Nazarene in La Union or the sharing of monkeys, beans or boiled eggs in the processions of Murcia.
This educational activity is conducted, throughout the week, students in fourth through sixth graders from schools Villalegría, Maspalomas, Los Pinos, The Hopes and Our Lady of Carmen.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar