Group created inside each Brotherhood of the Holy week. The activities related to the squads and floats are carried out by them. They have the name of the image or the sculptural group they are devoted to.

People in charge of the float movement throughout the route of the procession.

Penitent of a brotherhood who marches taking part in the processions inside a squad.

Route where processions flow. Where you can find at both sides of the streets, long rows of chairs to watch the processions.

(shroud) embroidered cloth used as an emblem. It guides the squads of capirotes of each one of the agrupaciones marching in processions.

Person from the typical squads who marches in Marraja and California Brotherhood as a remembrance of the old military regiments. These guarded the Virgins and gave way to the processions.

Stick where the capirotes lean on and which ends in a beautiful shape. Except in the Easter Sunday procession when they do not have lights, they are lit thanks to batteries, gas or candles.

This is the typical penitent from Cartagena Holy week. They take part in Marraja, California and Resurrected processions wearing robes of the distinctive colour of each brotherhood.

(Regiment): military guard that closes processions in Cartagena. Depending on the procession, it is made of Artillery, Navy and Navy Infantry.

People who carry the float on their shoulders along the entire procession route.

Religious parade of Holy Week going from the clearing until the regiment.

Person who feels him/herself highly linked to the Holy Week.

Components of the squads representing the troops of this empire, popularly known as “Jews.”

Typical rectangular Holy Week sweet wrapped in the fashion of the Brotherhoods..

(Shroud) emblem followed by the squads of capirotes, also known as estandarte.

(squad) Group of capirotes with a harmonious formation, representing their corresponding agrupación, and accompanying their float.

(Float or throne) base, usually baroque, carved in wooden and gilded, on which the images are taken. It is also the base together with the image or images carried.

 

(Francisco Mínguez Lasheras "Diccionario Ilustrado del Habla Procesionil Cartagenera" Cartagena. 1990.)