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Representatives of the six municipalities met in Beas and agreed to establish themselves as a Group of Cities `Camino de San Juan de la Cruz '
Representatives of the six municipalities that are at the foot of the 'Camino de San Juan de la Cruz' held a meeting in Beas de Segura Town Hall to discuss different issues related to the valorisation and promotion of this pilgrimage route, which concludes in Caravaca de la Cruz
One of the agreements adopted during the meeting - which was attended by the Councilor for Urbanism and Environment in the Caravaca City Council, Enrique Fuentes - was the formal constitution of the Group of Cities 'Camino de San Juan de la Cruz', which will be integrated by the municipalities of Beas de Segura, Hornos de Segura, Santiago-Pontones, Nerpio, Moratalla and Caravaca de la Cruz, which form a historical region around the river Segura and belong to the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia .
The Group of Cities 'Camino de San Juan de la Cruz' will have as its objective the development of a tourist, cultural and patrimonial proposal, with which it intends to make known both the work of the Carmelite mystic and those populations that have traveled so many times.
It has been possible to document at least seven trips of the Carmelite saint from these towns to Caravaca de la Cruz.
Caravaca de la Cruz and Beas de Segura provide the experience accumulated in the management of other pilgrimage tourism products, such as the "Traces of Teresa de Jesus", an essential part of this project around San Juan de la Cruz.
The rest of the municipalities that make up the road enter the Sierra de Segura, offering some of the most beautiful landscapes in the Spanish geography.
The 'Camino de San Juan de la Cruz' arises with the vocation to consolidate itself as a pilgrimage route that allows to approach the literary and spiritual legacy of the Carmelite mystic saint, but also constitutes a tourist route that allows to know the wealth patrimonial, landscape and ethnographic of those towns for which he passed, ending in Caravaca de la Cruz, key destination of religious tourism, being one of the five cities in the world with a jubilee granted in perpetuity.
The route has a total of 151 kilometers and consists of five stages (Beas de Segura-Hornos de Segura, Horns of Segura-Pontones, Pontones-Santiago de la Espada, Santiago de la Espada-Nerpio, Nerpio-El Sabinar, El Sabinar -Cavavaca of the Cross).
In Beas de Segura, Santa Teresa de Jesús founded the first convent of barefoot in Andalusia in 1575, Fray Juan de la Cruz arriving in 1578 as Prior of the Calvary of Beas and spiritual director of the nuns, after escaping from the conventual prison of Toledo where the shoes had him imprisoned.
In Beas he forged the synthesis of his spiritual thought and composed some of his principal literary works.
In Caravaca had been founded in 1576, by order of Santa Teresa de Jesus, the female convent.
The Saint sent the friar expressly, who assisted the nuns in the first chapter of the congregation.
Years later, he would establish a convent of friars in that city, the Convent of Our Lady of the Carmen.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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