Murcia is already part of the 'Camino de Levante', first Way of the Cross that will make up the road network of pilgrimage to Caravaca de la Cruz facing the celebration of the Holy Year 2017.
Councilman Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, and the general director of the Institute of Tourism of the Region, Manuel Fernández-Delgado, this morning visited the works of installation of new signaling path of Cruz passing through Murcia.
Both administrations have collaborated in the work to place both as informative as directional signals are beacons of continuity, placement of poles with arrows, information signs and stone markers that serve the pilgrims indicator.
Thus, in Murcia the following items are placed:
- A Totem at the start of Malecón with two faces: a general information Camino de Levante;
and other information the No. leg 2-Alguazas Murcia.
- A large urban poster (next to the Auditorium) with city information (blueprints, photographs, points of interest, QR code).
- Three informational posters Living Nativity small El Raal and by the way two hermitages.
- Several white arrows isolated or next resources (hermitages in the garden, Bethlehem Museum Bacons Bridge, Wheel of Ñora, ...) in the urban section continuity through short red arrows and vitolas on lampposts in the stretch Butte .
Continuity with red arrows on post, beacons and stakes, and paint marks.
- Two markers: one at the output of Raal, and another at the exit along the Malecon, which will mark 94 km)
This road links ten municipalities around the Vera Cruz on a new route that begins in Orihuela and runs through the Murcian towns of Beniel, Murcia, Molina de Segura, Alguazas, Campos del Rio, Albudeite, Mula, Bullas, Cehegín and Caravaca from the cross.
This initiative seeks to develop domestic tourism, boost the local and regional economy, revive rural areas and create jobs.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia