Murcia’s Holy Week Procession Brings Tourists

by Kurt Schefken The Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, or as it is more simply called, Murcia, is one of the seventeen autonomous communities in Spain. The region was founded as Mendinat Mursiya by the Arabs in 825. These earliest settlers were able to use Murcia?s convenient coastal environment to create many of the first sophisticated irrigation systems. It is on the southeastern corner of the country and is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is next to three oth