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The Councillor for Tourism in the city of Caravaca, María Pérez Sanchez and Lieutenant older brother of the Brotherhood of the True Cross, Gregorio Sánchez Romero, received this morning Yeclano Celso Bañón Ortega, the first pilgrim has officially crossed the entire path of the "Camino de la Vera Cruz", recently signaled from Puente la Reina (Navarra) to Caravaca de la Cruz.
Celso Banon, who previously collaborated with Natursport signaling in some sections of the road bike has traveled over 900 miles in eight days.
On arrival at the Basilica de la Vera Cruz, Celso Bañón commented that the route is well signposted correctoy is, although it has legs of a high difficulty for cyclists.
The councilman of Tourism has thanked him for his collaboration to improve Camino de la Vera Cruz, which aims to become the main route of pilgrimage to Caravaca de la Cruz.
There is documentary proof that the mid-thirteenth century and was the Camino de la Vera Cruz, across the Pyrenees, started from Puente de la Reina to Caravaca de la Cruz.
The project to restore the layout of the original path with the involvement of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, through its Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the City of Caravaca de la Cruz, the Confraternity of the Blessed and Vera Cruz and Mediterranean box.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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