Abanilla
24 ABR - 10 MAY
The Holy Cross and Moors and Christians take centre stage as Abanilla enjoys a fortnight of fiestas The small town of Abanilla in eastern Murcia is remarkable for the devotion shown by the locals to the holy relic of the ¿lignum crucis¿, which is believed to be a fragment of the cross on which Jesus is crucified, and every May the local fiestas are held in honour of the ¿Santísima Cruz¿ as well as in commemoration of the conflict between moors and Christians which determined the course of local and regional history in the 13th century..
