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The regional deputy of the PP and mayor of the municipality of Yecla, Marcos Ortuño, has used the mentions in the work of the Spanish novelists Azorín and Pío Baroja on the religious and cultural value of Holy Week, in defense of the full Regional Assembly of the motion that pursues its declaration of National Tourist Interest.
A motion that has been approved with the support of all the parliamentary groups represented in the Autonomous Chamber.
Marcos Ortuño has highlighted in his intervention some of the singularities of the processions parishes and towns like the procession of Los Farolicos that gathers every holy Martes hundreds of children that illuminate to its passage the streets of the municipality, some lanterns made of artisan form that in many Cases go from parents to children.
The popular deputy and councilor of Yecla recalled that Holy Week dates from the seventeenth century, the form 19 brotherhoods and is shaped by 11 processions.
And it has manifested that its titular image is the Virgin of the Angustias of the sculptor Salzillo, declared Good of Cultural Interest, like the Basilica of the Purísima point of exit and collection of the processions.
The Holy Week of Yecla has been able to join its growth of the last decade to the maintenance of a tradition and the religious feeling, said Marcos Ortuño who has valued the plenary support as a very important step to obtain the declaration of National Tourist Interest on the part of the Government of Spain.
Source: GPP
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