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Feria del Sol y Tapas mil – Sun Fair & a thousand tapas

 

Lorca from the 14th until the 22nd April 2018 will be welcoming Spring in a week-long celebration with several events and activities to be enjoy be anyone!

The Sun Fair offers locals and visitors alike the chance to enjoy both a selection of tapas, music and dancing throughout the street and plaza of Lorca in the spirit of Spring.

The Fair of the Sun seeks to become an incentive to boost daily entertainment from April 14 to 22, for this Hostelor has organized 14 flamenco and rumba concerts in different squares in Lorca, as well as a parade at the Mercado del Sol – Sun Market, plus 23 establishments that will offer an elaborated tapa plus a Estrella Levante beer for 2.50 euros.

The Tourism Institute General Director, Manuel Fernández-Delgado, attended together with the Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, and Hostelor President, Francisco Jesús Abellaneda, the presentation of the Sun Fair during which a large representation of catering establishments in the city will offer tapas and tastings. The ceremony was also attended by representatives of Estrella de Levante and local businesses.

The Sun Market will host the “Aires del Sur” (air of the south) parade, which will be held on Sunday, April 22nd. In addition, on Saturdays and Sundays there will be up to 14 evening concerts with flamenco sounds and rumbas to encourage people to enjoy the Feria del Sol in the squares.

On Saturday 14, Son de la Tribu will perform at Lorca Plaza square starting at 4:00 pm and Más que Flamenco at Calderón at the same time. At 5:00 p.m. The Gipsy Payos will sing on the Run.

 

On Sunday, April 15th at 3:00 pm, Son de la Tribu will perform at the Plaza del Pueblo Saharaui; at 4:00 pm we will have Aires de Veleta at Lorca Plaza and Tributo Pata Negra at Calderón, while Más que Flamenco will perform at La Corredera at 5:00 pm.

On Saturday, April 21, Más que Flamenco will take the stage at 4:00 pm, , in Lorca Plaza, along with Aires de Veleta, in Calderón. At 17 pm Son de la Tribu will perform.

 

On Sunday, April 22, the last day of the fair, Aires de Veleta will perform at the Plaza del Pueblo Saharaui at 3:00 pm; Private Property will act at 16:00 in Lorca Plaza and Son de Tribu will do it at the same time in Calderón; and Pata Negra Tribute will close the performances at 5 pm on the Corredera.

 

Participating establishments:

  1. BAR 1900

  2. BAR ESPAÑA

  3. BAR PRIMOS

  4. BAR RIVERS

  5. CAFETERIA NOVA

  6. CAFETERIA PARIS

  7. CAFETERIA PAST ZENON

  8. CERVECERIA ALBLANCA

  9. CERV. LAS COLUMNAS

  10. EL FORNO LORCA

  11. BAR LA CONFITERIA

  12. MERCADO DEL SOL

  13. MESON LORQUINO

  14. PARADOR CASTILLO DE LORCA

  15. PIZZERIA PEDRO´S

  16. PUB PLAZA

  17. RTE. EL SEGOVIANO

  18. SOJO BAR

  19. TABERNA 4 CANTONES

  20. TABERNA LA CEPA

  21. TAPERIA 4 BELLOTAS

  22. TAPERIA ALBEDRIO

  23. TGB BURGER

LORCA CASTLE

 

The Castle of Lorca (Murcia, Spain) is a fortress of medieval origin built between the 9th and 15th centuries. It comprises a series of defensive structures that, during the Middle Ages, turned the city and its fortress into an impregnable point in the southeast peninsular. The castle of Lorca was a key bastion in the figth between Christians and Muslims during the “Reconquest” conquest. It is classified as an Asset of Cultural Interest and within the delimitation of the historical-artistic complex of Lorca.

With its extension, it is 640 meters long by 120 meters at its widest point, is one of the largest castles in Spain.

 

Under Islamic rule, the castle of Lorca became an impregnable fortress because of the steepness of the hill on which it sits. Its interior compartmentalized in two halves by the wall of the Espaldón. In the western part there is a large “albacar” to protect food and livestock in times of danger. In the eastern sector is the Alcalá; neighborhood of the Muslim querter. From its walls, the walls that hugged the rest of the iner neighborhoods, souks and suburbs located in the lower part of the city started from the hillsides.

With the conquest of Lorca by Don Alfonso (future Alfonso X) in 1244 for the Crown of Castile, the fortress would become a strategic enclave of the first magnitude as the outpost of the Crown of Castile against Granada. For more than 250 years, the Castle of Lorca would guard the border between the Christian kingdom of Murcia and the Muslim of Granada.

This privileged situation was the reason that forced the Castilian monarchs to make an effort to repopulate the area and build and maintain the most adequate defenses for the Castle.

The Jewish quarter of medieval Lorca was inside the citadel, separated from the rest of the city by its walls. The physical separation of the neighborhoods had as its objective the protection of the Jews, but at the same time it meant a clear ethnic division of the community of Lorca, leaving the Christians in the lower part of the city.

The remains of the Lorca Jewish quarter extend over an area of ​​about 5,700 square meters. So far a total of 12 houses and a 14th century synagogue (only found in the Region of Murcia) have been excavated. The archaeological remains found can be visited in the basement of the “Parador de Turismo” and in the exhibition “Luces de Sefarad”.

The castle is very rich in history and every bit worth a visit and exploring each corner.