Caravaca de la Cruz

Caravaca de la Cruz is a metropolis and municipality of southeastern Spain in the area of Murcia, close to the left bank of the River Argos, a tributary of the Segura. This city is the capital of the northwest Region of Murcia. It has a populace of 26,449 as of 2010 INE. In 1900 it had 15,846 inhabitants It is the Fifth Holy City of Catholic Christianity, having been granted the privilege to rejoice the jubilee year in perpetuity in 1998 via the then Pope John Paul II, in conjunction with Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Camaleno Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liebana. It celebrates its jubilee each seven years; the primary being in 2003, when it turned into visited with the aid of the then Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI.

In 2010 the second jubilee was celebrated, and it surpassed the 1,000,000 mark of visits acquired in 2003. Festivities of International Tourist Interest since 2004. Caravaca is dominated by using the medieval Santuario de la Vera Cruz Sanctuary of True Cross, and consists of several convents and a exceptional parish church, with a fantastic move celebrated for its restoration energy, in honor of which a yearly competition is held on three May. Caravaca is home to many monuments and museums, many of which can be essential vacationer attractions. The hills which extend to the north are wealthy in marble and iron. The town is a full-size commercial centre, with massive iron-works, tanneries and paper, chocolate and oil factories