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This pilgrimage route, which connects Guadix -as the first Bishopric of Spain- and Caravaca -as a Jubilee destination in perpetuity- has started in an event held at the Huéscar City Council, with the presence of mayors, councilmen and associations of the territories involved The mayor of Caracas, José Francisco García, highlighted the "strong and long connection between these territories" and defined this path "as a new opportunity to continue adding municipalities, helping to reactivate and structure rural inland Spain, with the Vera Cruz as a nexus of union and final destination " The planned route aims to promote the cohesion of territories that have maintained intense relationships and that share many cultural aspects with each other through their paths and the vast natural, monumental and religious heritage they treasure. 0.
The 'Southern Spiritual Path' begins to walk as a link of union and pilgrimage or hiking route, which starts from Guadix, the first Bishopric of Spain, to end in the jubilee city of Caravaca de la Cruz, passing through municipalities such as Huéscar , Baza, Cullar, Galera or Puebla de Don Fradrique. "They are the closest territories of the neighboring province of Granada, with which we have always had powerful historical, commercial and family ties and with whom we share traditions and a valuable heritage with a marked religious character," according to the mayor of Caravaca.
de la Cruz, José Francisco García, in the presentation of this path, held in the Plenary Hall of the Huéscar City Council, together with its mayor, Soledad Martínez, and mayors and councilors of most of the municipalities involved, as well as representatives of foundations and associations involved. The planned route has the basic objective of promoting the cohesion of territories that historically have maintained intense relationships and that share many cultural aspects with each other through their paths and the vast natural, monumental and religious heritage they treasure. "This route is a new and well-founded opportunity to continue involving municipalities and that Caravaca and the universal attraction of its employer serve to unite and reactivate areas of rural inland Spain.
It is about promoting, through our values ??and tourism, socioeconomic development.
" For her part, the mayor of Huéscar revealed the enthusiasm and commitment with which they embrace this initiative; "It is an antidote to the depopulation of economically depressed regions that, nevertheless, enjoy great historical and patrimonial wealth." At the end of the act in the Town Hall, the participants attended a Solemn Mass in the Church of Santa María la Mayor; where the faithful were able to win the jubilee as the first symbolic pilgrims of the Way.
It was celebrated just on the day in which the Jubilee can be won in Huéscar, the day of the titular feast of the Papal Basilica of Santa María la Mayor in Rome, to which the Huesca temple is linked and for which Huéscar can win the plenary indulgence. The Southern Spiritual Path is an initiative that has already managed to unite different social agents, foundations, city councils, bishoprics, with the same objective, to build a structuring project in the Northern area of ??the Province of Granada.
Around the axis that the cities of Guadix, Baza, Huéscar and Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia) articulate, a large territory is formed that fights against the uprooting of historical roots, in some regions where the tension between the memory of the past and the commitment to the reality of the present want to continue forging a common future. Municipalities with a dense historical evolution as areas of uninterrupted settlement since Prehistory, where some of the oldest vestiges of human population in Europe have appeared.
An area of ??permanent transit of human groups throughout Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, being an exponent of this the route of the Via Augusta, which, between the Roman cities of Tarraco and Híspalis, crossed their lands. The planned itinerary starts from the Cathedral of Guadix, the oldest documented diocese in Spain, towards Huéscar, whose collegiate church of Santa María la Mayor de La Encarnación is a Jubilee temple, and has its destination or final goal at the Real Basilica de la Vera Cruz Caravaca.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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