The Councillor for Tourism of the City of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, this morning the device tourist information for this Easter 2015, which will feature numerous programs and brochures that illustrate Biblical Passionate Parade, with an app and more information points the previous year.
The mayor explained that "as in previous years, the Department of Tourism has developed a series of brochures and printed materials to provide relevant information to visitors and to Lorca own. Today we also present the booklet The Courtship with Explanation the Bible Parade Pasional of Friday Procession to be dealt into the tourist office and information points from Holy Wednesday ".
In this sense, Montiel said that "this year have been updated and reissued designs last year of the author's own hand Cartel Holy Week this year, Francisco Soriano. In summary, the amounts of this set of publications referred to Easter are 25,500 spread over 3,500 posters (2,500 Spanish, English 500, 500 undated); 16,000 programs and 6,000 pamphlets Courtship.
For the information device that triggers the Department of Tourism, Francisco Montiel has reported that "the Tourist Office of Lorca has strengthened and increased over previous years in the number of informants who shall be a minimum of 6 on Friday Dolores up to 18 on Friday, with 62 hours of service, and the Tourist Information Points to be installed in San Francisco, Santo Domingo, Guevara Palace, Town Hall, Avda. de Santa Clara and Presidency during Easter 2015 ".
It also stressed that "information is very important, so the special information reinforcement that began last March 13 in the Office of Tourism and Visitor Center, will extend until next April 5 with a significant improvement over the 2014 ".
In this regard he explained that "the main changes are in terms of data points and Main Office. The City Council increases by two days service information regarding recent years, these being Good Friday and Saturday Passion. Likewise Point Information Avda. de Santa Clara will remain open for the first time on Holy Saturday in the morning. The informants Presidency this year will serve both Thursday and Good Friday that unlike the Last year, only they did on Good Friday and also attend to visitors with a fixed counter unlike other year. The Tourist Office has also strengthened its schedule with the opening of it, half an hour before the Thursday and Friday, which will open at 10:30 instead of 11:00 am as he had been doing in recent years. "
As last year, Francisco Montiel recalled that "laConcejalía of Information Society maintains the Web support APP for Android, iOS, Rim, Windows Phone, Firefox OS, Ubuntu ... This application devices that you can download to your desktop includes The Courtship, Agenda, Itineraries processions, recommended visits, Brotherhoods, News, Photogallery, Weather, Twitter, sale of tickets and parking areas. Although this information is also available on the website www.lorca.es and www.lorcaturismo.es ".
Moreover, Montiel has reported that "the Department of Tourism of the City of Lorca is already working on the next Easter and in promoting international organized in collaboration with the Institute of Tourism in the Region of Murcia and Turespaña through its OTS Frankfurt a press trip with German journalists from different media that will be in Lorca from Wednesday 1 to Saturday 4 April. In these four days journalists can meet, in addition to our Parade Bible Passionate, also the intricacies of processions within religious sites, the monumentality of the Sun City, Castle Lorca and all its activities and the various hotel establishments in the city and the atmosphere and bustle of the city with visits to Mecardo Craft Easter and flags collected from different brotherhoods. "
As promotional activities to be performed during this Holy Week, the mayor reported that "as online promotion has created an Newsletters and diffusion in social networks, where through Twitter and Facebook comments will be made inviting . our fans, friends and followers to participate in the creation of events Regarding offline promotion, promotional material sent to the Tourist Offices in the Region of Murcia; Huerca Tourist Offices Overa, Mojacar, Velez Rubio and Roquetas, as well as major hotels in the region. We have also put offers on different websites like Oferplan and Cuponvi ".
Francisco Montiel recalled that "this informative Easter device also features visits to the Visitor Center where a permanent exhibition with an audiovisual circulated to know our territory, the municipality, coastal areas and the districts are offered. In the same Thus, the Castillo de Lorca also graces during these dates to live Holy Week Lorca and offer visitors different activities to entertain you. You can walk among its walls, guided tours of the Alfonsina Tower visits to see the city from its highest point , found the remains of a fifteenth-century Jewish Quarter and Synagogue. Also Guevara Palace opens its doors to visitors to discover its spectacular colonnaded courtyard, its monumental façade and the other rooms and rooms that have recently been restored.
Other activities that can be performed during Holy Week are dramatized visits such as: theatrical tour "Living in Sefarad", in which a Jewish character will show how his life within the walls of this castle.
Guided tour of the Archaeological Park Synagogue to know the archaeological remains of the Jewish Quarter of the castle.
Guided tour of the Alfonsina Tower to see the inside of the highest tower recently restored Lorca.
There will also be a display of falconry, and finally, the tourist train.
Another interesting option is highlighted Montiel "The Other Easter".
This visit can know Lorca biblical scrolls from a different perspective.
A unique opportunity to understand all the intricacies of this different passion with a guided tour of the historic town and going to the headquarters of the brotherhoods to see firsthand the floral arrangements from their seats, the enjaecimiento of horses, trials of the bearers, prayer of an ancestral ordeal ...
Finally the mayor wanted to acknowledge the contribution and economic and dissemination participating organizations and companies that have sponsored Easter printed materials or services necessary for the normal development of the information actions.
These are La Caixa, which collaborated with the poster contest Easter and dissemination thereof, Cajamar with the Programme of Easter and also spread through their offices, and the Beacon Mall collaborating with editing brochure Courtship.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca