Description
The Camino de San Juan de la Cruz is a pilgrimage route that begins in Beas de Segura and reaches Caravaca de la Cruz.The Camino was born at the beginning of 2016 at the initiative of the Discalced Carmelites of Caravaca, with the support of the Discalced Carmelites of Beas, to make known the heritage, landscape and ethnographic legacy of those towns through which it passed and bring its message, its mystique and its poetry to the tourist or pilgrim. A 151 km pilgrimage route. performed by the Saint as Vicar and confessor of the Carmelite convents. The Camino runs along the old communication routes of the 16th century and its purpose is the tourist and cultural empowerment of the figure of San Juan de la Cruz. The municipalities that belong to the Camino are Beas de Segura, Hornos de Segura, Santiago-Pontones, Nerpio, Moratalla and Caravaca de la Cruz. The tourist and pilgrimage routes are configured with a start and end in the municipalities of Beas de Segura and Caravaca de la Cruz, and vice versa, linking the religious, cultural, historical and literary heritage of each municipality around San Juan de la Cruz, aiming for the tourist or pilgrim to travel through all the towns that the route includes.
