The keys of the city, the jubilee year and sacred art

“Felipe, Felipe!” Spain and mobile flags in hand, hundreds of neighbors of Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia) were capturing every movement of the kings in their visit to the town. Felipe VI and Doña Letizia have thus put the closure to the celebration of the Jubilee Year of 2024 that has hosted 800,000 visitors and pilgrims. The visit took place this Thursday, February 6 in the morning. Felipe VI maintains close links with Murcia since he studied at the General Air Academy of San Javier, the same center where his father, Juan Carlos, formed, and the same where his daughter Leonor will enter.

Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have arrived in Caravaca de la Cruz around 12:00 in the morning. It has been a very sunny but fresh morning, 11 degrees. The president of the community of Murcia, Fernando López Mira accompanied to their Majesties; The Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puente, and the mayor, José Francisco García.

Before entering the basilica of La Vera Cruz, Felipe VI and Letizia have talked for a few seconds and have approached people. It has been a long greeting to the neighbors, who requested portraits of the kings at every step they took. A few moments that have left us the image of Letizia putting her visor hand to protect themselves from the sun while making a comptrollee selfies.

For this trip, the Queen has rescued a monkey design in black culotte format and matching shirt, with white fists and romantic detail of flyers also blank. It takes the firm of Teresa Helbig. He has completed with block heeled leather boots.

The staircase of the visit

The planned scallet of this visit is as follows. The Kings will tour the City Council received by the mayor, José Francisco García. In the plenary hall, they are given the key to the city, the biggest distinction of the Consistory, according to the first mayor himself, who showed his “gratitude” to the Royal House for the attention to the municipality “through the Four official visits from 1974 to the present day, “he said in a plenary session.

It is also planned that the head of the State and his wife travel the streets of the town. The second informative point will take place in the Caravaqueña Basilica of La Vera Cruz. The municipality celebrates its Jubileo In Perpetuum, a condition that was granted in 1998 by the then Pope John Paul II, who perpetuated the retirement year with a frequency of seven years. The most recent has been commemorated in 2024. This retirement condition has made the Caravaca sanctuary a destination for pilgrims seeking plenary indulgence. Pilgrims can pray before the Wood crossrevered since the thirteenth century. There a religious trade will be held, in charge of the bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, José Manuel Lorca.

After the Mass, the event with culture arrives. The kings will visit the exhibition The Century of Tegeo In the Church of the Company, by the artist Rafael Tegeo Díaz, who was director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and Chamber Painter in the Court of Isabel II.