VIDEO: Caravaca begins exciting new public park project
The expansive green area will be situated between Camino del Huerto and Mayrena
Next week, Caravaca de la Cruz is set to kick off an exciting new project aimed at creating a vast public green space spanning more than 50,000 square metres. Located between Camino del Huerto and the Mayrena area, this new park will become a natural haven for residents and visitors alike.
Mayor García highlighted that this ambitious project is part of the city’s ongoing commitment to sustainability and urban greenery which will be carried out in several phases.
This initiative adds to other ongoing green projects in Caravaca, such as the recently inaugurated 'Green Ring' and the green area in the historic centre, near the Europán block. Additionally, two more green projects are in the works for Tosquillas de Barranda and Cerro de la Fuente de Archivel.
“The Mayrena Park project is aimed at renaturalising the area, with the planting of native plant species and the recovery of the old water courses, which will be used for irrigation, together with various children's, sports and leisure facilities,” explained the landscape architect in charge of drafting the project, Roberto Martín.
The total budget for this first phase of the project is approximately one million euros, with 211,750 euros coming from the European Next Generation funds through the 'Camino a Caravaca' Tourism Sustainability Plan.
Additional funding includes 40,510 euros for improving accessible tourist infrastructures and 50,000 euros for expanding children’s play areas.
Work will begin with preparing the land, planting 300 trees and adding 200 herbaceous and shrubby plants. New paths, a pond lake, a restaurant and picnic area and a pedestrian and cycle path connecting to Fuentes del Marqués will also be created.
Future phases will bring even more facilities, including sports areas, an outdoor auditorium for activities and a widened Camino de Mayrena.
Before breaking ground, the town council secured a collaboration agreement with the 26 landowners, facilitating the early transfer of the land to the project.
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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 sahres boundaries with Moratalla, Cehegín, Lorca, Puebla de Don Fadrique in the province of Granada and Vélez-Blanco in the province of Almería.
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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