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Date Published: 20/11/2023

Caravaca promotes rural tourism at the INTUR fair in Valladolid

The event served as a means to showcase religious and rural tourism in the north-west of Murcia

Caravaca promotes rural tourism at the INTUR fair in Valladolid Last week a delegation from Caravaca de la took part in the latest edition of Spain’s inland tourism fair INTUR in Valladolid, promoting not only rural tourist in the north-west of the Region of Murcia but also the Holy Jubilee Year which is being held in the city in 2024.

On the first day of the event alone Councillor José Santiago Villa reports that some 20 meetings were held with tour operators and travel agents specializing in religious and family tourism, the aim being to attract visitors to the area with the variety of the cultural, sporting and natural attractions of Caravaca as well as its religious significance.

The INTUR fair is becoming an ever more popular event and in this latest edition approximately 1,200 towns and cities were in Valladolid to showcase their attractions. While the first day was reserved for professional meetings, on the following days the event was open to the public.

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Caravaca de la Cruz Tourist Office More information about the places of interest which can be visited in the municipality of Caravaca de la Cruz, along with what's on and local news can be found in the dedicated Caravaca de la Cruz section.

Caravaca de la Cruz, in the North-west of the Region of Murcia, is one of only 5 Holy Cities in the World, a centre of Pilgrimage, along with Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Santo Toribio de Liebana, home to the Cross of Caravaca, the Vera Cruz.

The status of Holy City was bestowed by Pope John Paul II in 1998, granting the City a Permanent Jubilee year every 7 years for perpetuity, the first one held in 2003, the next one in 2017.

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The strategic and natural advantages of Caravaca de la Cruz have attracted the attention of settlers for more than 800,000 years, the Cueva Negra yielding remains of Homo Heidelbergensis, forbears of the Neanderthals and the municipality also houses important archaeological remains from the Argaric, Iberian and Roman cultures. many of these can be seen in the Municipal Archaeological Museum.

As a border town caught between the Catholic forces of Castille and the last remaining Moorish stronghold in Spain, Granada, Caravaca had a Caravaca de la Cruz Tourist Office turbulent Mediaeval history, but it was during this period that the legend of the Cross of Caravaca was born, bringing the religious orders which shaped the structure of Caravaca today, with it's impressive hilltop castle and eclectic collection of churches and monasteries, religious tourism today being a backbone of the town´s economy.

Caravaca de la Cruz is a municipality with important natural resources, including extensive forests, part of which have protected status due to their wealth of flora and fauna, and due to the abundant water supplies is also a major area for canned fruit production, apricots in particular, being an important crop.

Caravaca de la Cruz Tourist Office Caravaca is renown for it´s important May Fiestas, held in honour of the Vera Cruz, which also incorporate the Moors and Christians celebrations and the Running of the Wine Horses.

Caravaca de la Cruz is also the home of Europe´s largest collection of ethnic instruments at Barranda, the Museo de Música Étnica Barranda and is the location of the Barranda festival de Cuadrillas, which celebrates the Region's ethnic music traditions.
The municipality is home to around 26,000 inhabitants and borders with Moratalla, Cehegín, Lorca, Granada and Almería.

Opening times:
1st October to 31st May
Monday to Friday, 10am to 2.30pm and 4.30pm to 7.30pm.
Saturday, 10.30am to 2pm and 4pm to 7pm.
Sunday and bank holiday, 10.30am to 2pm

1st June to 30th September.
Monday to Friday, 10am to 2pm and 5pm to 8pm.
Saturday, 10.30am to 2pm and 5pm to 8pm.
Sunday and bank holiday, 10.30am to 2pm.

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