This initiative arose after the City Council has completed the necessary record for this statement
The Municipal People's Party in the city of Caravaca de la Cruz at the next plenary will present a motion that the Feast of the crews is of National Tourist Interest.
The PP wants to promote in this way this statement before the competent bodies, highlighting the revitalization that has brought music to the oral tradition to celebrate this festival in Barranda.
The Feast of the crews has become one of the oldest cultural events of its kind and most important of all those made in Spain.
The momentum of the people of Barranda and effort of the municipal corporations of the democratic era have allowed this popular festival is a reference in the field of traditional music.
The City of Caravaca de la Cruz has managed to complete the record permits the declaration of National Tourist Interest, gathering areas such as history, offering hospitality in the area, the media appearances on regional and national media and more than 30 accessions of public bodies that support this statement.
In addition, the Department of Tourism has invested in recent years more than 60,000 euros in promotional activities necessary to comply with this record.
Since starting in 1979 to be held, coinciding with the Feast of the Candelaria, patron saint of Barranda, the last Sunday of January occurs Party Crews, a day that brings together pandas, rounds and crews arriving from different points Spanish geography.
This event is complemented by other activities such as Days Barranda Folk and Cultural Study of Oral Tradition, which aim to provide theoretical support to the parties through concerts, lectures, educational workshops in schools, exhibitions and lectures .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz