The UA exhibition "Gods, a journey from the origins of Holy Week in Torrevieja" can now be visited virtually.

After months of work, the virtual tour of the exhibition "Gods, a journey from the origins of Holy Week in Torrevieja" is now available from anywhere with internet access . This is the result of research, knowledge transfer, digitization, and dissemination of cultural and historical heritage, led by Jesús Segarra-Saavedra, who curated the exhibition along with Francisco Montesinos, president of the brotherhood of Santísima Vera Cruz de la Convocatoria and Nuestro Padre Jesús en Samaria. Laura Pérez Aguirre, a communicator and designer from Torrevieja, and the ICON tech Torrevieja team also actively participated in the project.

The exhibition includes pieces loaned by the Church of the Immaculate Conception, such as the old Christ of the Flagellation; by the brotherhoods themselves, such as the old vestment of Our Lady of Sorrows dating from the first third of the 20th century, which was embroidered by Antoñita Barceló and saved by the Moscardó family during the Civil War; as well as from private collections. It also displays the sculptor's easel of the Blanco brothers, currently used by the artist Víctor García Villalgordo, as an example of the transition between the past and present history of Holy Week in Torrevieja, from which sculptures such as the Holy Sepulchre and Our Lady of Sorrows, as well as the Last Supper and Mary Most Holy of Victory or Mary Most Holy of Silence, have emerged.

These are just some of the more than 320 objects, including sculptures, thrones, busts, carvings, skirts, tunics, banners, torches, vestments, processional marches, lanterns, ornaments, medals, audiovisual summaries provided by Televisión Torrevieja (TVT) and prints that Segarra, Montesinos and Pérez Aguirre identified, cataloged, digitized and exhibited in the exhibition that took place in the Vista Alegre exhibition hall in Torrevieja between April 11 and May 30 of this year.

Furthermore, this project made it possible to create the heritage collection entitled "Digital Archive of the posters of Holy Week in Torrevieja" which is available in the Repository of the University of Alicante https://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/153118 , and which aims to be updated annually.

This initiative was conceived and managed from the University of Alicante's Torrevieja campus, coordinated jointly with the Torrevieja Brotherhoods Association, and overseen by the Torrevieja City Council's Department of Culture. It benefited from the collaboration of all the brotherhoods in Torrevieja, as well as Joaquín Carrión, Carmelo Navarro, Víctor García Villalgordo, Tamara Ramos Martín, Francisco Reyes Prieto Pérez, Antonio Aniorte Guerrero, and Adrián Ballester Lozano, among others.

The team encourages everyone to visit the exhibition via the following link and to share it with anyone interested in exploring the heritage and history of Holy Week in Torrevieja.

Segarra-Saavedra, Jesús; & Montesinos, Francisco (2025). Virtual tour of the exhibition "Gods," a journey through the origins of Holy Week in Torrevieja. University of Alicante. https://web.ua.es/seus/torrevieja/expo-diosidades/index.htm