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In the coming weeks accession project it will start to restaurants, hotels and tourist establishments offering service to pilgrims

The city of Murcia is already part of the 'Camino de Levante', first Way of the Cross that makes up the fabric of pilgrimage to Caravaca de la Cruz to celebrate the Holy Year 2017, he said today the director of the Institute of Tourism, Manuel Fernández -Delgado, who visited the construction site of the new signaling path passing through the capital.

Fernandez-Delgado, accompanied by the Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture of the City of Murcia, Jesus Pacheco, celebrated the incorporation of Murcia the 'Way of the Cross', and stressed that "capital will host many of the pilgrims who come to visit Caravaca de la Cruz, expected to exceed the million and a half jubilee next year. "

In addition, he said that in the coming weeks will begin the process of joining the project of restaurants, accommodations and tourist establishments offering service to pilgrims, as well as the identification of officially sealing points the way.

As said, the actions of signaling are included in the master plan of Caravaca de la Cruz, "which is running successfully thanks to the joint work between the regional and municipal administrations and the private sector, which will enable jubilee year spread economic and social to the entire region "impact.

The road passing through the city of Murcia will have a distance of 34 kilometers, differentiated into an urban stretch that will run from the Auditorium and Congress Center Victor Villegas to the garden area and another section that will pass by Speck River.

Signaling includes information signs with points of interest in Murcia and QR codes, continuity beacons, poles with arrows and stone markers that serve as indicators pilgrims.

The 'Camino del Levante' une eleven municipalities around the Vera Cruz in an itinerary 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 de la Cruz.

The Community has provided 393 placing signs along the route, which is already placed on today 255. It is anticipated that work will finish in the coming weeks.

Source: CARM