After the prizes to eat the rice, because the 2 of May without rice, are not the 2 of May.

And in the evening the Moors and Christians, first battle in the hill of the Castle, gain the Moors, who we are going to him to do if he is written.

Next procesión-parade to accompany to our Cross the Salvador.

The 3 of May in the morning, infantile parade, the small ones, learning to march past, another wonder. In afternoon procesión-parade by the medieval district to the parliament between the Sultán Moor Ceyt Abuceyt and King Christian D. Fernando III, next to the Templete or swimming pool of the Cross. The battle and reconquers it of the city by the Christian followers, next new procesión-parade to the Salvador.

Already day 4 of May, great day of Moors and Christians. The great parade, the Groups and Kábilas with its better suits, everything overflows color and fantasy.

And the 5, to accompany to the Cross its residence, the Chapel of the Castle, to be present at the conversion of the Sultán Moor and to happen to be called Vicente.

All the city serves as scene for this celebration, and the event is developed to its remarkable monuments in front of but.

The Castle (century XI, declared national monument after its restoration, years 50), the sanctuary within the enclosure of the strength, the Carmelite convent of San jOse, or the Churches of the Conception and the Salvador (both of century XVI).

In this celebration they do not lack the bands, the bigheaded giants and, the battles, the parliaments and the parades of Moors and Christians.

Caravaca smells history in each one of its corners.

So single to comment that the first establishments that are known date from the Age of the Bronze, although obtained their greater prestige during the Average Age.

You entrust at your service of Temple first and to the one of Santiago later.

It prospers thanks to a powerful industry of the footwear that went to ruin after the Civil War of 1.936. Caravaca, today, is capital economic of an extensive zone that gets to transfer the limits of the Murcian community.

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