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Enhance the Ermita de la Reja as panoramic viewpoint and as a place recommended sightseeing tour for their landscape and historical qualities, slowing the extent possible vandalism that degrades place while integrating the Barrio Nuevo in the tourist routes is the triple objective of the last motion presented by the Popular Party for discussion in plenary of the City of Caravaca.
Popular councilors Jose Francisco Garcia and Monica Sanchez presented the initiative on the spot, from which a very suggestive and beautiful part of the town of Caravaca panoramic view, with all its attractions presided over by the castle currency and Basilica de la Vera Cruz, and their natural environment, which includes the plain of Argos river with its garden and surrounding mountains and even the towns of Cehegín and Bullas.
"We all have in mind viewpoints panoramic that we like to go in many cities, such as the famous San Nicolas de Granada. La Ermita de la Reja is an ideal place to create a lookout for these spectacular views This place can be revalued regenerated, including it in the tourist routes, offering the visitor as a place of interest recommended during your stay in our city, "said Monica Sanchez.
The motion urges the government team to the provision of a game in the next municipal budgets to condition the space currently very degraded because of vandalism, so that during the course of the Jubilee Year 2017 could be already put in value and used.
It also raises the Department of Tourism, once conditioned place, carried out actions for use and promotion, as inclusion on routes, maps and tourist brochures, improved access signaling, even celebrating educational activities or environmental in the environment, extending this integration Barrio Nuevo as an area of ​​historical and scenic value of Caravaca.
The route could include references to monuments in the area, such as the bullring, the former Franciscan convent in that place existed or 14 hermitages of the Cross, of which currently only retains the fence.
A few years ago the chapel was restored and was conditioned environment, installing information panels, wooden railings, benches, street lamps street lighting, etc., but the passage of time and vandalism have caused a great deterioration of the site.
The creation of this viewpoint would serve to facilitate maintenance and monitoring of the site, avoiding as far as possible vandalism that causes degradation.
"The motion states that a route to improve the accessibility and security of the place, which was well signposted from the Tourist Office and from other tourist sites Caravaca to reach easily be conditioned. It also can enhance their access on foot, walking, avoiding as far as possible the car to avoid environmental and noise impact. "
The proposal aims to provide the place of right furniture for visitors and their specific use as lookout, such as binoculars, bins, information panels, delimitation of the parking area (parking) and leisure, with special care of landscaping, etc.
To improve understanding of the views in the gazebo would be interesting place appropriate signs, maps as explanatory or interpretive signs of monuments and places that are displayed
La Ermita de la Reja, designed by the seventeenth and only century preserved of the 14 that were built and which were the Stations of the Cross, was sponsored by D. Francisco Muñoz of Otálora, mayor of Caravaca and Catalina Lopez, his wife, in 1617 , as testified by the inscription on its lintel.
Source: PP Caravaca de la Cruz
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