18th September 2025. \u2013 Lucena Town Council and the Agrupaci\u00f3n de Cofrad\u00edas are making the final preparations for the Great Passion Procession (\u2018Procesi\u00f3n Magna Pasionista) \u00abLucena Lives the Passion\u00bb, which will take place on 27th September to coincide with World Tourism Day. This unprecedented event for the town is expected to attract thousands of visitors, showcasing Lucena’s rich cultural and historical heritage, its distinctive \u2018santer\u00eda\u2019, and benefiting from extensive media coverage.<\/p>\n\n
Lucena’s Mayor, Aurelio Fern\u00e1ndez, appeared alongside the Councillor for Tourism, Francisco Barbancho, and the President of the Agrupaci\u00f3n de Cofrad\u00edas, Antonio D\u00edaz, to highlight the significance of this event as a historic milestone for the town and its tourism profile: \u00abIt is a unique opportunity to strengthen the bid for our Holy Week to be granted National Tourist Interest status and to showcase Lucena as a town fully prepared to host major events\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n
Francisco Barbancho, for his part, stressed that this Magna Procession \u00aboffers an opportunity to present to the world one of Lucena’s most distinctive and authentic traditions, our Holy Week, with its rich anthropological, cultural and identity heritage\u00bb. Antonio D\u00edaz, meanwhile, emphasised that this event has been organised within the framework of the 2025 Jubilee Year and brings together the town’s seventeen Passion brotherhoods, \u00aban unprecedented occasion that highlights Lucena’s Santer\u00eda, recently declared an Asset of Cultural Interest\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n
The Great Passion Procession of Lucena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n A total of 18 devotional images\u2014Christs, Virgins and mystery processional thrones\u2014from the Passion brotherhoods will take part in the Magna Procession, led by Mary Most Holy of Araceli, Patroness of Lucena and of the Andalusian countryside. The processional cort\u00e8ge will follow the chronological order of Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection, offering a devotional and artistic journey spanning from the 16th century to the present day. The procession will feature the distinctive sound of the drum and the torralbo, together with performances by renowned musical ensembles, including the \u2018Agrupaci\u00f3n Musical Virgen de los Reyes\u2019, the \u2018Banda de las Cigarreras\u2019, the \u2018Agrupaci\u00f3n Musical Jes\u00fas de la Redenci\u00f3n\u2019, and the local ensembles SDM Banda de M\u00fasica de Lucena and the \u2018Agrupaci\u00f3n Musical Stmo. Cristo de la Humillaci\u00f3n\u2019.<\/p>\n\n In the days leading up to the event, the town will also witness the processional transfers of Our Lady of Solitude (21th September), Our Lady of Araceli (21th September), Jesus of the Valley (23th September), and Jesus of Humility (date to be confirmed).<\/p>\n\n