Lorca is tradition, passion and history
A present for all of your senses and for the traveller’s soul who dives in this city.
The history of Lorca can be read in its old stone-paved streets, in its corners and also in the Fortress of the Sun, in the Muslim Mosque and in its unspoilt Synagogue, and finally in the only church in Spain dedicated to San Patricio. So many vesiges of alive patrimony that this city has hoarded little by little from prehistoric times, after with the romnize and finally with the islam and Christian city which finally gave form to the Lorca we admire today.
What the contrasts of its Wide territory offer us
With more than 1600 km2, Lorca is the largest municipality not being capital of a province, in Spain and, consequently, it offers to those visiting Lorca an extraordinary variety and richness of landscapes; from the land in the North to the quite coves in its coastline alter crossing the rich and typical orchard by the Guadalentín River.
Easter Week in Lorca. A Different Passion.
Lorca is above all, PASSION all over the year thanjks to its Easter Week celebration declared of Internacional Tourist Interest because it offers the visitor the best of its spectacular and outstanding patrimony staging not only in “La Carrera” but also in the Embroidery Museums.
Neither a single corner to forget in Lorca nor a single second to miss to come and discover it.
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