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Marco Topo in Lorca
The Marco Topo interactive scavenger hunt in Lorca is a family tourism activity created at the initiative of the Municipal Tourist Office. The game includes two routes with 12 challenges each, Flopi stickers to collect and an online game accessible from any internet-connected mobile phone. Families must visit the places marked on their maps and solve cultural challenges together until they free the Flopis captured by the evil Doctor Topo Loco around both the town and Lorca Castle. Start the adventure by clicking the button below.
- Public: Familles et écoles
- Format: À pied
- Langues: ES
Discover Lorca through play
The Marco Topo adventure in Lorca includes two routes that allow families visiting Lorca, as well as school groups, to take a self-guided tour of the town and its castle. The urban route covers the historic centre and reveals the streets and buildings of Renaissance and Baroque Lorca. It visits landmarks such as Guevara Palace, the Church of Santiago, Huerto Ruano Palace and the Regional Crafts Centre. It also includes the Municipal Archaeological Museum and the museums of the Paso Blanco and Paso Azul brotherhoods. Their exhibitions feature embroidered robes worn by members during the processions of Lorca's Holy Week, a Festival of International Tourist Interest. The castle route, through the fortress known as the Fortress of the Sun, reveals the origins and evolution of a stronghold first built in the 10th century under Muslim rule. After the Christian conquest in 1244 by Alfonso X the Wise, the castle was remodelled and used until the 15th century to defend the frontier with the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada. In the 19th century, during the Peninsular War, further structures were added for refuge and defence. Inside the castle grounds you will visit the Espolón Tower and Alfonsina Tower, both built in the time of Alfonso X the Wise. You will discover the importance of the cisterns, water-storage structures of Muslim origin, as well as the Espaldón wall, built in the Almohad period, the Jewish quarter and its synagogue. Among the structures built during the Peninsular War are the covered passage, which connected different military areas, and the artillery batteries incorporated into the fortified front. One unusual feature of the castle is that its vegetation now forms a butterfly oasis thanks to the joint work of the fortress and the Zerinthya association.