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Encourages "to build a history of exchange, hospitality, progress and intercultural encounter in a cohesive, powerful and worth visiting tourist product"
The tourism project 'El Camino de la Vera Cruz' started today at the International Tourism Fair of Madrid (Fitur 2020), "joining wills of the different communities that travel this route," said the president of the Community, Fernando López Miras, who explained that "it also represents an excellent source of opportunities for socio-economic development, since it encourages tourism, with pilgrims and walkers who will look for establishments to stay, restaurants, leisure activities and free time."
This pilgrimage road begins in Puente la Reina (Navarra) with 900 kilometers of travel, in 82 municipalities, until reaching the Region of Murcia, passing through Aragon, Valencian Community and Castilla-La Mancha.
"This itinerary symbolizes something as simple as the need that people have always had to communicate with each other through roads, roads that will not leave us indifferent, both for their surroundings and for the feeling of being traveling through history," he said. the head of the regional executive.
In this sense, he encouraged "to value all the monumental, artistic, religious, cultural and nature heritage of the route of this road until reaching Caravaca de la Cruz", and "build a history of exchange, hospitality, progress and meeting intercultural in a cohesive, powerful and worth visiting tourist product. "
In addition, the president stressed that the Camino de la Vera Cruz "represents a great opportunity for tourist revitalization against rural depopulation," and said that this initiative "will promote the social and labor development of the areas through which it travels, creating more employment. and companies, and contributing to avoid 'Spain emptied'. "
"It is an excellent role model for the recovery of the heritage of our country," he said.
Caravaca de la Cruz is one of the three jubilee cities of the Iberian Peninsula.
Nestled in the heart of the Murcian Northwest, it has become a place of permanent pilgrimage since the concession in 2003 by the Holy See of the Jubilee Year in perpetuity.
"We collect the witness that the ancient pilgrims who sought the healing of their spirit in Vera Cruz bequeathed us and today we want to give an opportunity to the pilgrims of the 21st century, nature lovers and sustainable tourism, through an unparalleled framework of natural and human traditions and landscapes, "said López Miras.
The Vera Cruz Way project has the commitment signed between the Diocese of Cartagena and the Government of the Region of Murcia to promote it.
One of the first actions, through the Camino de la Cruz Foundation, will be the improvement of the signaling of the route along which this path runs, for which 90,000 euros will be invested this year.
Source: CARM
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