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The ceremonial embroidery of Lorca is famed across Spain and is an essential part of the Semana Santa processions

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Guided tour in Spanish of the historic city centre of Lorca and a spectacular embroidery museum: December 6 to 11

Tour name: Lorca Monumental y su Bordado

This guided tour features not the main monuments of the centre of the historic city of Lorca, but also a visit to one of the embroidery museums which exhibit the fantastically intricate, elaborate and spectacular items worn by participants in the annual Semana Santa (Easter Week) processions, an event granted International Tourist Interest status. These shawls and other accoutrements take countless hours of painstaking work to create, and bids have been launched for them to recognized by UNESCO as an item of Intangible World Cultural Heritage.

The 2-hour tour starts on December 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11 at the Tourist Office in the Plaza de España at 11.30 and is priced at just 1.50 euros. This includes entry to the museum, which will be payable on entry. Bookings should be made here at least 48 hours in advance, or by contacting the tourist office directly.

For more information about what to see, what to do and where to eat and drink in Lorca visit the home page of Lorca Today.

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Oficina de Turismo de Lorca

Lorca Tourist Office

The rich and extensive history of Lorca has left a legacy of archaeological sites, and historic buildings, around which the modern City has built its tourism industry. Amongst these are Lorca Castle, the Jewish Quarter of the castle and Synagogue, Lorca Tourist Office Plaza de España, Colegiata de San Patricio, Museo de Arqueologico Municipal, Iglesia de San Francisco, Casa Huerto Ruano, Palacio de Guevara, Iglesia de San Mateo, Pósito de los Panaderos, Convento Virgen de las Huertas, Antiguo Convento de la Merced, Iglesia del Carmen and the Teatro Guerra.

Unfortunately Lorca has also been prone to natural disaster, suffering a Gota Fría on September 28th 2012, as well as an earthquake which measured 5.3 on the Richter scale on 11th May 2011 and claimed 9 lives. Since this earthquake the city has been rebuilding, winning recognition for its Lorca, Open for Restoration initiative, which used the restoration of the city as a tourist attraction whilst it rebuilt its historical buildings, some of which are currently still not open.

Lorca Tourist Office The tourist office itself has temporarily relocated until the renovations are completed and is on Calle San Patricio near the church.

Lorca also has an area of coastline incorporating the Parque Regional de Cabo Cope - Puntas de Calnegre, in the Sierra de Almenara, which includes the beaches of, Puntas de Calnegre, Baño de las Mujeres, San Lorca Tourist Office Pedro, El Siscal, Cala Honda, Cuartel del Ciscar, Junquera, Cala de la Gruta, Cala Leña, Los Hierros, Cala Blanca and Playa Larga, although many are accessible only through agricultural exploitations.

However, in spite of its many attractions, the name of Lorca is synonymous with Easter, (Semana Santa) its biblical parades of International Tourist Interest status and famous throughout Spain. The week includes a Lorca Tourist Office series of parades in which the whites (Paso Blanco) and blues (Paso Azúl) try to outdo each other with the magnificence of their embroideries and the skill and daring of their horsemen.