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Caravaca states that "has to be a strategic and whole year tourism project" and their parties, "open to the world, the regional government have an ally"
The president of the Community, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, said today that Caravaca de la Cruz "is one of our great cultural, religious and tourist treasures" and has "great potential for regional tourism strategy."
Pedro Antonio Sanchez made the remarks after attending this morning at the memorial Mass of the Apparition of the Holy Cross on the occasion of the celebrations of Caravaca and the parade of riders rocks and Wine Horses, "a open to the world party" today visited Austrian, German and Dutch tourists, and that "we promoted from the regional government, where they have an ally".
According to the president, the regional government is working for the Holy Year, held in 2017, "reach more than a million and a half pilgrims and visitors in general who come to Caravaca, with all that that entails for this municipality and the region. "
"Caravaca has to be a strategic and tourist all year project," said the president, who remarked that "we are coordinating all efforts to make it a success."
He recalled that the parties Caravaca de la Cruz are declared of International Tourist Interest and reiterated that "we are also working to declare that Unesco's intangible cultural heritage".
The regional government has repeatedly expressed its support for the 'Cross Roads' and Caravaca Jubilee considering that this town "is at the heart of the strategic project of the region in the field of culture and tourism," just as reiterated last week Pedro Antonio Sanchez welcome to the representatives of the parties Caravaca de la Cruz in the San Esteban Palace.
During his visit, the regional chief executive also attend the ceremony of blessing and floral offering to the Holy Cross, also to the career of the Wine Horses and harnessing competition that takes place on the hill to the castle.
Horses Wine
Caravaca celebrates the feast of the Blessed and Vera Cruz between 1 and 5 May.
Alongside liturgical celebrations around the relic of Lignum Crucis, the festivities include both the Moors and Christians as the Horses of Wine, held today on the slope up to the castle-sanctuary and which involved around 60 rocks.
The origin of the celebration of the Wine Horses recalls a tradition that is situated towards the year 1250, when Grenadians had besieged the castle from 1231 and kept the relic of the Cross.
Then, a group of Templars managed to break the siege, entered with their horses saddlebags full of wine and save the people from dying from poisoned water with which the enemies had contaminated the wells.
San Esteban Palace hosts until this Friday, May 6, a representative exhibition of garments in silk and gold shine in this holiday season and will be open from 8:30 to 14:30.
Source: CARM
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