Since it started three years ago at the initiative of the Cabildo Superior de Cofradias of Las Torres de Cotillas, the Permanent Exhibition of Dioramas of the Passion of Christ of the town, unique of its characteristics in the Region, has not stopped receiving visits from students, members of various groups and people coming from beyond Murcia.
The genesis of this simpar regional heritage has been based both on the use of meticulous techniques by the hand of the local artist José Antonio Egea and thanks to the collaborative team work of members of the eight Passionary brotherhoods of the municipality. Torres de Cotillas offers in yes a sample, that gathering pieces of remarkable artistic value modeled by distinguished nativity scenes of Murcia, represents the recreation in scale model and in achieved level of precision and preciousness of those passages of the New Testament such as the Last Supper, the triumphal entry into Jerusalem , the wedding of Canaan, the Via Dolorosa, the crucifixion or the resurrection).
The visitors of this pioneering Exhibition in the geography of Murcia, located in the headquarters of the Cabildo Superior de Cofradías will find a first class cultural proposal as well as an example of virtuosity as an instrument designed to preserve and disseminate one of the most refined expressions of popular culture, of faith and tradition of which the Torrena Village presumes with pride.
And it is this accumulation of factors in favor that led him to request for the Diorama of the Passion of Christ of Las Torres de Cotillas the declaration - before the competent Regional Government Council - his declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
Definitely.
a harmonious body of art and devotion that is a jewel for our Region.
We wait for you to contemplate the Passion of Christ as never before had shown.
Source: JJRM