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The Director General of Tourism, Marina Garcia, filed today with the mayor Caravaca de la Cruz, Domingo Aranda, the Twelfth Day of Greenways, to be held in Caravaca on Saturday 8 May, and within the framework of the Partnership Northwest Greenway.
It is estimated that by Saturday 8 May, some 2,000 people have registered.
Garcia reported that "the Ministry from the beginning has focused very strongly on this product that is one of the products of the region.
We are working to ensure that the Greenway is a path of pilgrimage but also go to other regions, and Caravaca can be reached from anywhere. "
He added that "from the Regional Government has invested more than 4 million in two years to provide a network of shelters for pilgrims to the Greenway.
In a couple of years, will be open all the shelters and will be a top tourist attraction for the Region of Murcia. "
The activity is divided into two rounds.
The first period starts at 9:30 am from the old train station Caravaca, with a walking or cycling along the Greenway, heading Cehegín, and then returns to the station, which means a distance of about 5.6 kilometers, and about two hours.
The second route begins at 12:30 am in the same starting point, and goes to the Basilica Santuario de la Vera Cruz, to return back to the old station of Caravaca.
The route is 4 miles and takes about an hour and a half.
To participate in this day booking essential www.murciaturistica.es anywhere or at any tourist office in the Region of Murcia.
Participants will receive gifts related to this day, a bag of supplies and also enter the draw for two mountain bikes.
Also can enjoy a dish of earth, such as rice with rabbit.
There will also be a climbing wall, inflatables and numerous youth activities.
The greenways are put ecotourism trails for walking, cycling or horse, characterized by the use in most cases of old railway lines and the accessibility, ease of travel, safety, ecological, and landscape integration.
For the Consortium of Greenways were spent between 2008 and 2009 more than 4 billion euros in infrastructure.
The most important activities are the construction of the hostel on the site of 'El Llano de Caravaca de la Cruz, which is under construction and will be completed soon, the rehabilitation of the season of light to use it to shelter and conditioning Apeadero Mule Child, implementation of additional works for the rehabilitation of old railway stations Albudeite, Cehegín, Caravaca de la Cruz y Campos del Rio for shelter, and Forest Restoration Northwest Greenway between Baños de Mula and Caravaca de la Cruz.
Other important activities are in recruitment are the construction of a hostel in the hamlet of La Rafa de Bullas, and another on the premises of the old train station Alguazas.
Source: CARM
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