What is not in the guides.
On Friday April 30, we left Alcaudete around nine in the morning to Caravaca, Murcia community to attend their celebrations of the horses came. We went to Guadix
via Iznalloz therefore not know whether he had repaired the A-92 in the large sinkhole that occurred near Granada by the recent rains. The warm weather accompanied us all the way, we Baza and we left the highway to take the detour through the Cullen Puebla de Don Fadrique leave us at the gates of Calatrava Cross.
We had to stay in the rural Hostal El Zorro in the small town of Barranda eighteen kilometers from Caravaca. The accommodation we had booked in January and at that time were full of hotels and guest house in Caravaca. The Hostal El Zorro, does not deserve more attention as it was mediocre, not the facilities are quite good but small details that make you uncomfortable stay, lack of cleanliness, taps in poor condition due to the limestone aggregate, pulling warm water to cold, lack of pillows to supplement existing, poor insulation between rooms, squeaking hinges, toilet seat sagging, TV too small, etc., paying correctable things some attention to the establishment and certainly leave a better impression with customers.
That afternoon we were able to make contact with Caravaca, city beautiful and well kept, slightly higher than Alcalá la Real in population, but much more in their buildings and services. La Gran Vía de Caravaca is impressive and it all decked find us waiting for the festivities that we offer the weekend. The restaurants, cafes and bars left perfectly clear that we were in a city "of possible" where there is money, big money and also, I know spend.
The modern city is well differentiated from the medieval quarter that is attached to the vicinity of the castle and the basilica of Santa Cruz. This year's Jubilee, but I think the other years is the same. Besides
Santo Toribio de Liebana, Santiago de Compostela, Jerusalem and the eternal city of Rome, Caravaca de la Cruz, shares the honor of being one of the five cities in the world can celebrate the jubilee.
The story of the Cross of Caravaca is a source of a story that I write soon, but anyone interested in the topic you can find it online without going any further.
first thing I do upon arrival in a city where tourists plan is closer to a tourist office, where they usually are very attentive and give you all kinds of information. There I learned that in addition to the Wine Horses are celebrating their fiestas de Moros y Cristianos and why not! love the holidays Calatravas Alcaudete, I started to enjoy the contemplation of the wonderful costumes that look at Moors and Christians parades.
But we split, the Horses of Wine is an ancient celebration that comes from when the late thirteenth century, the city of Caravaca Cross was protected by the order of the Templars.
The people lived peacefully in the village surrounding the castle, until the Moors were able to storm the city. The villagers resisted but the Moors were more powerful and finally invaded them. Many died, but others were able to reach the castle, which gave shelter to the weary caravaqueños. This made the Moors urdieran a master plan for polluting the waters came to the castle.
The plan of the Moors was poison and disease among refugees and the legend that was when a group of Templars decided to leave the castle. Although they were surrounded the men managed to go in and out a few leagues to un lugar que llaman el Campillo de los Caballeros. Allí pudieron llenar de vino unos pellejos que llevaban consigo en sus caballerías. Regresaron y con gran habilidad sortearon la vigilancia de los moros, entrando a galope por la cuesta del castillo. El estado de los enfermos era deplorable, de tal modo que solamente un milagro salvaría a la población. Así es que los templarios decidieron bañar en el vino traído la reliquia de la Santa Cruz y luego se lo dieron a los enfermos, rezando para que sanasen. Así fue como la epidemia desapareció y los refugiados sanaron totalmente.
Hoy en día solo un caballo lleva dos odres de vino al principio del desfile y en plan testimonial, los pellejos llenos de vino han sido horses replaced by wonderful hand-embroidered costumes complete astounding and touched by your amazing work. Horses
more than fifty and behind each horse is a rock that supported and strife against other clubs. The vestments of the horses are approaching the forty thousand euros in some cases, serving ostentation and pride for his followers to places and venues also have to meet.
The festival is spread over all branches of the rocks, becoming the venue for eating and drinking all its members.
At the same time celebrate the festivities of Moros y Cristianos, one of the most luxurious and impressive in Spain in relation to a city with the number of inhabitants as the Caravaca. The various groups parade accompanied by a band, so that the bands for horses, Moors and Christians, certainly spend a hundred.
If the dresses are nice Christian knights, let alone those of the Moors, and blackberries, which are changed regularly and almost every year, surpassing many thousand euros.
Armor, chain mail, helmets, weapons and shields, cloaks and surcoat, are impressive and all of the same group, equal and united, all a delight.
I should mention that on Saturday at noon we approach the next town of Calasparra, a small town famous for its rice and there we could try rice with rabbit and snails "takes your breath away." Center was the restaurant where we served it, so you know, if you go through Calasparra.
Two holidays that have passed, but has continued to the May 5.
course, I highly recommend it to anyone who likes this kind of celebration. The show from the stands that place in the Gran Via de Caravaca is superb, the seats are comfortable and in bars and coffee shops which are in the city We will take exquisite viands, in sweet and savory, to accompany the drinks of wine from the Cross, indispensable for the holidays.
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