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The Director General of Tourism, Marina Garcia, together with the mayor of Bullas, Esteban Egea, and the architect Fernando de Retes, today placed the first stone of the hostel for pilgrims in the area of La Rafa, in Bullas, and for which the Ministry of Culture and Tourism allocated a total of 500,000 euros, through the Northwest Greenway Consortium.

Garcia said that this building is the result of the efforts of the regional administration to provide the Greenway lodges a network that favored the accommodation of pilgrims to make the path to Caravaca de la Cruz Murcia. "

He recalled that since the Ministry "We are working hard on this project for several years."

In particular, he noted that it has invested over four million euros in the Via Verde Hostels network "that will be completed within a very short time."

In fact, already finished the hostel in El Llano in Caravaca de la Cruz, as the La Rafa, are the only two start-ups, while the rest are adaptations of old railway buildings.

This hostel aims to address special conditions and spatial landscape of the area where it is located.

Shall consist of 44 beds (two bedrooms with a capacity of 22 seats each, including 11 handicapped accessible) and a sitting area with a reception and kitchen.

Greenway Investment

Between 2009 and 2010 the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, through the Northwest Greenway Consortium, spent more than four million euros for the construction of a hostel in the hamlet of 'El Llano Caravaca de la Cruz, is now complete, and the rehabilitation of the season of Light to use it to shelter and conditioning Apeadero Mula Child.

Also were carried out works of adaptation and rehabilitation of old railway stations Cehegín, and Caravaca Albudeite for shelters, restoration forestry Northwest Greenway between Baños de Mula and Caravaca de la Cruz, and works adequacy Northwest Greenway in the stretch Baños de Mula-Caravaca de la Cruz.

The Northwest Greenway, part of a former railway route between Murcia and Caravaca de la Cruz in disuse since 1971, a member since 1999 of one of the main axes of the western Mediterranean Green Network in the Region of Murcia.

It extends from Baños de Mula to Caravaca de la Cruz with a total of 48 kilometers, journey that has a huge variety of landscapes alternating with areas of arid mountains, pines and almonds.

This European project provides for the continuity of the route to connect to Andalusia.

Source: CARM