Cartagena and his quirky live Holy Week, declared of International Tourist Interest.
As is expected, at three-thirty this morning has come from the vicinity of the Old Cathedral of Spain the first procession, which marks the beginning of ten days of shows passion and transfer of images to live intensely.
Large crowds passed all night to accompany the Via Crucis of the Brotherhood of Christ Relief, founded by the Duke of Veragua in the seventeenth century.
It is an austere penitential procession is accompanied by a muffled drum and prayer stations along the main streets of the Old Quarter.
It procesionado photo images of the Virgin of Solitude and the Christ of Consuelo Moreno.
Among the officials who accompanied the procession councilors Antonio Calderon and Isaiah Camarzana and admirals Chief Maritime Action and Arsenal Arsenal Salvador María Delgado and Fernando were Zumalacárregui.
Especially emotional were the first stops will be at the official patron saint of Cartagena, the Virgen del Rosell, in Santa María de Gracia, and later about six in the morning, before the popular patron saint, the Virgin of Charity in the Basilica of the same name, where he has held a ecucaristía.
With the first light of dawn the procession, in which a special cleaning brigade has been watching to address any issues that may register for the course was collected.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena