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Cartagena City Council finally held, despite the crisis and budget cuts, the grant 226,000 euros to the Easter processions.

The mayor has given this evening in the traditional call a check for this value and has indicated that in times of crisis you have to be austere and reserved for the important things, like Easter, which is the most beloved tradition and a major cultural values and tourism in the city.

This is an amount similar to that granted last year, in the name of the brothers thanked the maintenance of the vice president of the Board of guilds, Tomás Martínez Pagán.

With British punctuality, the four older brothers, Jose Miguel Méndez, makos, Juan Manuel Moreno, for the Californians, Tomás Martínez Pagán, by the resurrected, and Manuel Sanchez, the Christ of Socorro, made appearance at the Town Hall Square , about half past eight at night.

They were preceded by the brass band that played Easter marches and followed by a multitude of processions.

They came to celebrate at their respective headquarters of the general councils and decide to take a year to the street processions.

With no rain, again the balcony of the Town Hall has been the scene of the act, where Tomas Martínez Pagán the mayor announced the decision to take the procession and reminded the 400 years that the people of Cartagena are celebrating in the streets of plastically Cartagena's passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

He also stressed that despite the crisis, it is necessary that light, color and bloom again flood Cartagena.

For its part, the mayor, has deepened the traditional character of the processions and the Call, which has survived to mayors and older brothers and expressed the joy of the family procesionil to return to work the miracle of Easter, after setting up the gears of a machine as old as amazing.

Finally committed the cooperation of the City in organizing events and parades, and direct support of the check delivered to older siblings.

After the usual, Music and Street, all these have gone through the main streets of the Old Quarter to announce the holding of the procession, ending at the Church of Charity which has made an offering to the patron.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena