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Nine organizations, including fraternities are Easter, bands, fraternities pilgrims, folk groups and other associations, assembled for this weekend, as many Cruces de Mayo in the city and county adjacent neighborhoods, with collaboration of the council of Celebrations of the City of Cartagena.

La fiesta de las Cruces de Mayo is celebrated in many Spanish cities and regions around May 3. Its origin is religious, and it commemorates the day when the tradition was found Christ's cross by St. Helena, mother of Emperor Roman Constantine the Great.

But along with this religious background, it remains popular in dance and other cultural activities around the different streets and squares where you installed crosses adorned with flowers and other motifs.

The ratio of intersections and locations this year is:

- Guild mako (street and alley Breteau Jara)

- Risen Guild (Pallas Street)

- Relief Christ Brotherhood (Calle San Miguel)

- Soc

Artistic Musical Santa Cecilia (Basque Núñez de Balboa Street. Pozo Estrecho)

- Hermandad de Romeros de San Antón (square of the Immaculate San Anton)

- Sports and Cultural Association The Pina (Plaza de la Marina de Santa Lucia)

- Dorda-San Miguel Coto (Barrio Concepción)

- Hermandad de Romeros de San Ginés (San Francisco Square)

- Cartagena City Folk Group (Cuesta de la Baroness)

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena