Madrid, Apr 9 (EFE).- The city of Madrid has broken “records” this week both in hotel occupancy, above 90%, and in billing from restaurants and bars, which has turned this holiday into “the best Week Santa in many years.”
This was confirmed by the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida, before attending the traditional tamborrada that ends Holy Week in Madrid in the Plaza Mayor.
“This Holy Week has been extraordinary for Madrid”, celebrated Almeida, who assured that the city has been “wonderful and welcoming” and the visitors “have been amazed”, so “they will surely come back”.
In this sense, he has insisted that from the point of view of tourism it has been a “really special” week. “There had not been a Holy Week of these characteristics for many years,” he reiterated.
Almeida has attended the tamborrada in the Plaza Mayor carried out this Easter Sunday, as last year, by the Brotherhood of the Slavery of Jesus Nazareno and Conversion of Santa María Magdalena de Zaragoza.
In fact, the event was also attended by the mayor of the Aragonese city, the popular Jorge Azcón, who stressed that the participation of this brotherhood represents an “opportunity not only to continue with the good relations between Madrid and Zaragoza, but also an opportunity very important to show the Holy Week of Zaragoza in the capital”.
A Holy Week, Azcón has continued to say, with 700 years of history and which is an international tourist festival, “one of the most important in Spain”.
This parade, made up of fifty pealers and drummers, has carried out what is known as the exaltation of the drum that puts an end to the itinerary through the churches and stations of the passion on Easter Sunday.
The organization is the responsibility of the Royal and Illustrious Congregation of Our Lady of Solitude and Desamparo of Madrid, in collaboration with the Madrid City Council.
Leaving from the Corpus Christi Monastery (Las Carboneras Convent), the drum sections of the Cofradía La Real, Muy illustrio y Antiquísima de la Esclavitud de Jesús Nazareno and Conversión de Santa María Magdalena de Zaragoza toured the streets of Puñonrostro, San Justo, Cordón, Plaza de la Villa, Mayor and Ciudad Rodrigo streets to reach the Plaza Mayor, where they have been received by both mayors.
