The director general of tourism infrastructure, Marina Garcia, today has been moved to the hamlet caravaqueña The Almudema to introduce the project and the status of works in the rural hostel being built on the site formerly occupied by the old rural schools.
Maria Garcia has made the visit accompanied by the mayor of Caravaca, Domingo Aranda, and Councillor for Tourism, Gonzalo López-Auguy and municipal technicians and managers of construction companies Munagar and inferior.
The works, which is scheduled for later this year, has a total budget of 519,888 euros, 75% funded by the Autonomous Community and the remaining 25% by the City.
The building, with an area of just over 500 square meters, will be spread over two floors with a ground floor room can accommodate groups of 22 persons and 10 rooms on the top floor with separate toilet.
The roof will be passable to accommodate some of the services and facilities of the center.
Rural hostel will be able to accommodate a total of 82 people.
The hostel will be particularly aimed at an audience of enthusiastic sports fans and nature that it will offer a program of walking and hiking activities in places like Las Tosquilla Historic Site Cave of the Incarnation and the hamlets caravaqueñas.
You can create a pilgrimage route from La Almudema to the Basilica de la Vera Cruz building on the old road of the Incarnation.
The mayor, who has described this initiative as an exciting project, highlighted the future of this facility linked to the Holy Year and the Al-Mudayna alpine marathon every year is being held in Almudema.
Network building shelters for pilgrims along the adequacy of the Greenway is one of the big bets made by the Autonomous Community and the City of Caravaca to strengthen services and tourist facilities in the city to the next Year Ghost.
According to data provided by the director general of tourism infrastructure, Caravaca count in 2010 with more than 1,000 tourist accommodation spaces between houses, hotels, apartments, guesthouses and hostels.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz