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November 9 Jubilee Year municipal bands concert in Caravaca de la Cruz
Over 1,000 musicians commemorate the Holy Jubilee year with tunes by local composer Ignacio Sánchez Navarro
The 10th annual festival of Bands in the Region of Murcia is taking place in Caravaca de la Cruz on Saturday 9th November, one of the highlights being a performance by all of the 1,000+ musicians attending!
Over 20 bands are taking part in the festival, which is being held in Caravaca as the Holy Jubilee Year of 2024 nears its end: the last Jubilee in 2017 was commemorated in similar fashion and proved a great success.
The schedule for the day includes the following:
9.30: Official reception of all the bands taking part in Avenida de Los Andenes.
10.45: The bands begin making their way from El Templete to the Basilica- Sanctuary, along Calle Corredera, Calle Poeta Ibáñez, Cuesta de las Herrerías, Calle Mayor and past the parish church of El Salvador.
12.00: Pilgrims’ Mass at the Basilica.
14.00: Fellowship lunch for the bands at Salones Castillo.
16.45: A musical parade to the Plaza del Templete along Paseo de Santa Clara, Calle de las Monjas, the Plaza del Arco, the Gran Vía and Calle Maruja Garrido.
18.00: All of the bands unite to play Caravaca hymns and tunes composed by local musician Ignacio Sánchez Navarro in the Plaza del Templete.
For more local information, including the Holy Jubilee Year as well as local news and what’s on, go to the home page of Caravaca Today.
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Calle De Las Monjas, 19, 30400 CARAVACA DE LA CRUZTel: 968 702424 / 968 701003
Oficina de Turismo de Caravaca de la Cruz
More information about the places of interest which can be visited in the municipality of Caravaca de la Cruz, along with what's on and local news can be found in the Caravaca Today.
Caravaca de la Cruz, in the north-west of the Region of Murcia, is one of only 5 Holy Cities in the Roman Catholic world, a centre of pilgrimage, along with Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Santo Toribio de Liebana, and is home to the Cross of Caravaca, the Vera Cruz.
The status of Holy City was bestowed by Pope John Paul II in 1998, granting the City a Permanent Jubilee year every 7 years for perpetuity, the first one held in 2003 and the next in 2024.
The strategic and natural advantages of Caravaca de la Cruz have attracted the attention of settlers for more than 800,000 years, the Cueva Negra yielding remains of Homo Heidelbergensis, forbears of the Neanderthals and the municipality also houses important archaeological remains from the Argaric, Iberian and Roman cultures. many of these can be seen in the Municipal Archaeological Museum.
As a border town caught between the Catholic forces of Castille and the last remaining Moorish stronghold in Spain, Granada, Caravaca had a turbulent medieval history, but it was during this period that the legend of the Cross of Caravaca was born, bringing the religious orders which shaped the structure of Caravaca today, with its impressive hilltop castle and eclectic collection of churches and monasteries, religious tourism today being a backbone of the town´s economy.
Caravaca de la Cruz is a municipality with important natural resources, including extensive forests, part of which have protected status due to their wealth of flora and fauna, and due to the abundant water supplies is also a major area for canned fruit production, apricots in particular being an important crop.
Caravaca is renown for its important May Fiestas, held in honour of the Vera Cruz, which also incorporate the Moors and Christians celebrations and the Running of the Wine Horses.
Caravaca de la Cruz is also the home of Europe´s largest collection of ethnic instruments at Barranda, the Museo de Música Étnica Barranda and is the location of the Barranda festival de Cuadrillas, which celebrates the Region's ethnic music traditions.
The municipality is home to around 26,000 inhabitants and sahres boundaries with Moratalla, Cehegín, Lorca, Puebla de Don Fadrique in the province of Granada and Vélez-Blanco in the province of Almería.
Opening times:
Weekdays: 10.00 to 14.00 and 16.30 to 19.30
Saturdays: 10.30 to 14.00 and 16.30 to 19.30
Sundays and public holidays: 10.30 to 14.00
Click for map, Caravaca de la Cruz Tourist Office
