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The director general of Tourism, Angel Campos, will this weekend to several Vatican officials ORP tour operator, who will remain in the region until Tuesday 10 February and aims to include Caravaca de la Cruz within circuits of the Italian company, specialized in facilitating the procedures of pilgrims and tourist routes.
ORP is the world's largest company in the field of religious tourism, with management more than 50 million annual pilgrims traveling around the globe to various pilgrimage destinations which are spread over Europe and the Holy Land.
Those responsible for the tour operator have been very interested in Murcia and its various historical attractions, cultural and heritage.
The company also will visit other Roman shrines and religious sites in the region to prepare a schedule for completion in Caravaca de la Cruz.
In order to address more despligue tourism, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, the mayor of the town, Domingo Aranda, and various business representatives plan to meet soon to plan for future actions within the framework of this celebration .
The timing of this meeting is reflected in the figures last year Jubilee in 2003, which ended with a successful visits revolved around a million pilgrims who came to the Sanctuary of Santa Cruz de Caravaca to win plenary indulgences granted by the Holy Father.
12 January 2003 to January 11, 2004, thousands of pilgrims, individually or in groups, and motivated by faith and devotion to the 'True Cross' visited the Shrine of the True Cross of Caravaca.
Caravaca de la Cruz is considered one of the five holy cities of Christendom with Santo Toribio de Liebana, Santiago de Compostela, Rome and Jerusalem (from that in 1998 Pope John Paul II granted the Jubilee Year in perpetuum).
Source: CARM
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