232,000 euros to be spent repairing roads damaged by DANA in Caravaca de la Cruz
The work is to take place on the RM-730 between the cemetery and the las Minas industrial Estate
An investment of 232,000 euros has been made by the government of the Region of Murcia to repair the damage that the heavy rains of the DANA has caused on the RM-730 road in Caravaca de la Cruz.
The work will take place between the 'Las Minas' Industrial Estate and the Municipal Cemetery and comes as a quick response to damage caused by the terrible weather of November 2024.
The Mayor of Caravaca, José Francisco García, and the Regional Minister for Public Works and Infrastructure Jorge García Montoro, have checked the work in progress and have inspected the 100-metre-long breakwater wall to repair the landslides and consolidate the slope that put the stability of the road at risk.
José Francisco García thanked the Department of Public Works for “the quick response to launch this work, which we consider to be urgent , as well as other works carried out in other parts of the municipality”.
The town council is progressively funding the work as they deem it necessary to repair this road and twenty others which have been affected by the DANA.
The mayor also made a point that the municipal corporation urged the government of the nation to not “exclude the Region of Murcia, especially the municipalities of Caravaca and Moratalla, as recipients of aid destined for municipalities with material damage due to the DANA, aid that has been allocated to a hundred municipalities in the communities of Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, the Valencian Community, Catalonia, Aragón and the Balearic Islands.”
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Caravaca de la Cruz, in the north-west of the Region of Murcia, is one of only 5 Holy Cities in the Roman Catholic world, a centre of pilgrimage, along with Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Santo Toribio de Liebana, and is 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 and the next in 2024.
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 turbulent medieval 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 its 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 is renown for its 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 shares boundaries with Moratalla, Cehegín, Lorca, Puebla de Don Fadrique in the province of Granada and Vélez-Blanco in the province of Almería.
Tourist office opening times:
Weekdays: 10.00 to 14.00 and 16.30 to 19.30
Saturdays: 10.30 to 14.00 and 16.30 to 19.30
Sundays and public holidays: 10.30 to 14.00
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