The UA Headquarters in Torrevieja creates "Diosidades," an exhibition that explores the origins of the city's Holy Week.

Antonio Quesada, vice president of the Joaquín Chapaprieta Municipal Institute of Culture and Councilor for Culture of the Torrevieja City Council; the curators of the exhibition Jesús Segarra, director of the University of Alicante Headquarters in Torrevieja and Francisco Montesinos, president of the brotherhood Santísima Vera Cruz de la Convocatoria y Nuestro Padre Jesús en Samaria; Laura Pérez, student intern at the UA Headquarters in Torrevieja and Francisco Beltrán, president of the Junta Mayor de Cofradías de Torrevieja have presented today in a press conference the exhibition "Diosidades, viaje desde los origens de la Semana Santa" (Gods, a journey from the origins of Holy Week), an exhibition that opens tomorrow Friday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m., in the Vista Alegre exhibition hall in Torrevieja, a place where it has
the press conference took place.

The exhibition covers the origins of Holy Week in Torrevieja and is part of a heritage and cultural research process led by Professor Segarra-Saavedra who, in his words, "has sought to identify, document, digitalize, catalog and disseminate Holy Week in Torrevieja through its posters, as well as create a space where citizens can remember or learn about it, through its fifteen brotherhoods and the most relevant historical objects of its cultural heritage. At the same time, the exhibition will be a complement to the processions of Torrevieja and an approach to its heritage";.

Both director Jesús Segarra and curator Francisco Montesinos explained that the exhibition includes more than 320 objects, including sculptures, thrones, busts, carvings, skirts, tunics, banners, torches, vestments, processional marches, lanterns, ornaments, medals, and prints, among others.

In addition, this project has allowed the creation of the heritage collection entitled "Digital Archive of the Holy Week Posters of Torrevieja," which is now available in the UA Repository: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/153118.

This initiative was conceived by the UA Headquarters in Torrevieja, coordinated with the Junta Mayor de Cofradías de Torrevieja, supervised by the Department of Culture of the Torrevieja City Council and has had the collaboration of each and every one of the brotherhoods of Torrevieja: Santísima Vera Cruz de la Convocatoria and Nuestro Padre Jesús
in Samaria; Our Father Jesus at the Last and Holy Supper and Our Lady of Victory; Our Father Jesus in Prayer in the Garden of Olives; Most Holy Christ of the Flagellation, Most Holy Virgin of the Star Queen of Angels and Saint Jude Thaddeus; Repentant Saint Peter; Our Father Jesus the Captive "Nazarene"; Our Father Jesus of Health; Our Father Jesus of the Fall; Holy Face and Woman Veronica; Our

Our Lady of Hope and Peace, and Our Father Jesus Triumphant; Christ Crucified and Mary Most Holy of Silence; Our Lady of Mercy; the Holy Sepulchre Recumbent; Saint John the Evangelist; and Our Lady of Sorrows. Laura Pérez Aguirre, a UA student and Advertising and Communications intern at the UA Headquarters in Torrevieja, designed the advertising photo with Joaquín Carrión, as well as Carmelo Navarro, Víctor García Villalgordo, Tamara Ramos Martín, Francisco Reyes Prieto Pérez, Antonio Aniorte Guerrero, and Adrián Ballester Lozano, among others.

The University of Alicante's Compubes research group: communication and specific audiences, the UA Department of Communication and Social Psychology, and Torrevieja Television (TVT) also collaborated.