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The Galician regional government has expressed its willingness to establish avenues of collaboration with the Region of Murcia for the promotion and management of two events of special general cultural, tourist and religious interest such as the celebration of the jubilee year of Santiago de Compostela and Caravaca de la Cross.
This commitment has been formalized in the Castle of Caravaca by signing an agreement signed by the Galician president, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, and eying the Murcia community, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, in the presence of the mayor, José Moreno, and the older sister of the Brotherhood of Vera Cruz, Elisa Giménez-Giron.
"What we want today is to unite the paths of Vera Cruz with the ways of Santiago and move the firm commitment of Galicia, both the Murcian community and the City of Caravaca, to vinmás these two holy cities and the roads of the pilgrimage, of spirituality, of life, "she stressed the president of the Xunta.
Caravaqueño mayor said that "Caravaca de la Cruz and Murcia have much to learn and to gain experience that the Xunta de Galicia has acquired during his long career as a reference destination of pilgrimage worldwide, especially in as regards the management of an event of such characteristics. they are two jubilee years who are called to complement each other. "
Also José Moreno said that "we still have eight months to start a very interesting both for the Community of Murcia and for the City of Caravaca stage. It is developing a joint advocacy necessary, but we must go further and pay attention to security, infrastructure, and how they will channel the flows of pilgrimage and that they not only benefit Caravaca but to all the region and the region. "
The cooperation protocol signed reflects the commitment of both communities to carry out mutual support in tourism promotion and exchange of knowledge about the valorization of heritage and cultural resources of the areas around the roads of pilgrimage and structuring and exploitation of pilgrimage routes.
Murcia and Galicia undertake collaborative actions, they supplied each other assiduously, information on the activities developed in the field of religious tourism, with relevant dissemination of the same in their respective territories.
It has also sealed the commitment for joint activities involving better use of their material and human resources, publishing, for example, joint publications aimed at the dissemination of both enclaves of pilgrimage.
Galicia and Caravaca de la Cruz share the fact of having an event of special cultural, tourist and religious interest, as is the celebration of a Jubilee Year.
Galicia celebrates the Year Xacobeo regular basis, with a secular tradition, particularly since 1126, being the Holy Year 1993, the first modern "Xacobeo" proving to be a singular event of global impact.
Meanwhile, Caravaca de la Cruz commemorates since 2003 a Jubilee Year every seven years after the grant made by Pope John Paul II, in 1998, he came to recognize the long history of worship and pilgrimage around the Blessed and Vera Cruz, from the Middle ages to the present.
They are, therefore, two of the three Spanish cities that celebrate a perpetual jubilee, along with Liebana and internationally, add only Rome and Jerusalem.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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