Ash Wednesday in Cartagena mark the countdown of the Holy Week processions, the celebration of the traditional call.
The Palace Hall will host on February 25 this massive event in which the four guilds of Easter come to the City to communicate its decision to take a year to the street processions, obtaining municipal plácet and a check, which materializes direct financial assistance provided by the municipality to parades passion.
The event takes place at around 20.30.
The representatives of the Board of guilds, led by older siblings will enter the Palace Hall, where they will be received by the mayor.
Subsequently, from the main balcony interventions happen: first the executive vice president of the Board, which this year corresponds to the resurrected Tomás Martínez Pagán, who shall notify the respective agreements of general councils.
Answer the mayor, who issued the check and completed his speech with the usual invitation to communicate to all Cartagena this year there will be processions, and Traditional Music and Street.
The procession will go then to the Church of Charity, where he held the offering to the patron.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena