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The Popular Party considers necessary to promote cultural recognition of the preservation of traditions and promote international recognition

PP deputy by Teodoro García Murcia and Caravaca PP president Domingo Aranda ensure that the party "itself represents the perfect alliance between popular culture and traditions of our country"

Housing spokesman in the Congress Party and MP for Murcia, has filed a non-legislative proposal at the request of the president of the PP in Caravaca Domingo Aranda which urges the Executive to support the statement of the party Wine Horses Caravaca de la Cruz as Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO, for if debate in the Committee on Culture.

Thus, the initiative of the Popular party argues that the Wine Horses Caravaca Murcia marks "has been celebrated since the Middle Ages".

In this sense, the popular group in Congress works with the Party of Caravaca for maximum projection Wine Horses worldwide.

In this sense, the promoters of the initiative have pointed out that "each year, the May 2, the horses came from Caravaca de la Cruz, is roaming the streets of the city with splendid embroidered silk robes and gold occurs Horses race spectacular Wine which is intimately linked to the history and culture of the city of Caravaca ".

"The origins of the festival, according to family tradition," said the spokesman of the PP, "go back to the site of Fort Caravaca Templar border with the Kingdom of Granada, in 1250 and in need of the inhabitants of the same water to stock, a group of Knights Templar crossed the Muslim site loading wineskins backs of their steeds. "

For the president of the PP in Caravaca, Domingo Aranda, the feast of the Wine Horses "itself represents the perfect alliance between tradition and popular culture not only of the city of Caravaca, but also of our country."

For these reasons above, the Popular Party considers necessary to promote cultural recognition of preserving the traditions and promoting international recognition.

According to Teodoro Garcia "the importance and responsibility of conservation belong to government and to the people of Caravaca through its council try to get the coveted UNESCO recognition that this event certainly deserves".

Source: PP Región de Murcia