Introduction

The building where this museum is located forms part of the premises of the Saint Cross Sanctuary. It is based in the traditional main priest’s home and it is organized in three different rooms, which are dedicated to the history of the Saint Cross, the liturgical elements and the archeological remains of the Sanctuary. Its basic collection belongs to the old museum of Sacre Art and History of the Saint Cross.

It houses collections of ornaments, silverwork and paintings. In the art gallery you can find six remarkable paintings on board from the XVIth century by Hernando de los Llanos, who was a disciple of Leonardo Da Vinci. Four of them narrate the miracles of the Saint Cross Appearance.

Among the silverwork, we find the XVI century Monstrance of the Saint Cross, which was a present of the first Marquis of Velez, Pedro Fajardo. “El portacruz de los Baños”, a gift from Luis Fajardo, the second Marquis of Velez, is another important piece. It is also remarkable the gilt-coated silver box-case donated by the Master of the Order of Santiago, Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa, around the XIV century.

It is worth mentioning the “Chasuble of Chirinos”, Muslim brocade adapted to the form of the liturgical ornament that the priest Chirinos is believed to have wore at the time of the miraculous appearance of the Cross.

It is also worth seeing part of the old plan of the Castle, recently excavated an old dungeon from the time.

Address:
Basilica-Sanctuary of the Holy Cross - Basilica-Santuario de la Santisima y Vera Cruz
Details:
Ph.: +34 968705620
Fax.: +34 968705199

Geographical coordinates:   Latitude 38.107889  Length -1.858694

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This museum is located in the well-known Palace of Marquis de San Mames or House of Sir Uribe.

This building, whose most ancient historical reference is dated in the XVI century, belonged in the very beginning to Sir Luis de Mora; in the XVII century it was owned by Uribe Family, one of whose relatives was Marquis de San Mames. This building is 2.000 m2 building area and it is distributed in four plants.

Here, Moor and Christian Costumes are exhibited, as well as ornaments used in the festivities offered in honour of the Holy Vera Cruz, held between the 1st and the 5th of May. It also shows the traditional neckbands (especial cloths for the horses embroidered in gold and silk) used to harness the Wine Horses in the morning of May 2nd.

Address:
Las Monjas Street, 19
Details:
Ph.: +34 968705620
Fax: +34 968705199

Geographical coordinates:  Latitude 38.109972  Length -1.861194

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It is built in the old site of the primitive medieval chapel El Salvador. It was built during the second third of the XVI century and it is considered an important renaissance building with a relevant architectonical value.

The museum shows, by means of its archeological pieces and interactive rooms, how our ancient people lived through a chronological study of the main cultural periods of the Human Being.

It is a top quality facility situated in mid historical centre of the city. It houses pieces of great patrimonial value, i.e. the fruit of the many findings made in the excavations carried out in different archeological sites, above all, those carried out in the Iberian-Roman complex of “La Encarnacion”. In this museum we can find ceramics, arms, coins, architectonical elements, etc.

Address:
Cuesta del Castillo - Slope to the Castle
Details:
Ph.: +34 968705620
Fax.: +34 968705199

Geographical coordinates:  Latitude 38.108111  Length -1.859889

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This museum is located in the so called “Tower of the Temples”. It is a XVI century building that owes its name to an old temple construction that existed in the same site. It is located in the main path that gives entrance to the magnificent natural environment of Las Fuentes del Marques. There exist thousand of legendary stories about this tower.

This Centre tries to offer a wide knowledge about the natural environment’s values of northwest area of Caravaca de la Cruz and Las Fuentes del Marques. Visitors will find out relevant information about vegetation, animals and ecological systems of the area. They will also know about the human being’s costumes, the history and ancestral culture of our land. But, above all, he will find the keys to respect and appreciate this environment, compromising himself with its conservation.

The visit to this Centre is a relaxing walk through the natural reality of the environment. Different information and suggestions are offered so that the visitor feels free to understand and interpret the surrounding reality, enjoying its beauty and increasing his knowledge of the Nature.

Address:
Natural environment “Fuentes del Marques”.
Details:
Ph.: +34 968705620
Fax: +34 968705199

Geographical coordinates:  Latitude 38.110018  Length -1.86139

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This museum is located in the town of Barranda, about 14 kilometers distance from Caravaca. It is a thematic museum. Its main aim is to offer to all kind of people the forms, sounds and general information about instruments and music around the world so that we can learn, through them, more about our own traditional and ancestral music; it is considered that it exists a narrow relationship between the instruments and music of different cultures that has not been contemplated deeply.

This museum belongs to the net of regional museums and was located in Barranda due to the fact this town is the most relevant reference regarding traditional music or root music. Besides, it is also relevant the recovering and maintenance of Las Cuadrillas Festivity. It is a XXI century museum in which you can notice the incorporation of new technologies through the use of graphic panels, tactile screens and individual interactive systems of video and audio.

The display offers an important organologic and didactic value by means of musical instruments’ performances created by Leonaro Da Vinci, Master Rene Gamboa’s innovations and Carlos Fadol’s, whose creations are displayed in here. In the different rooms of the museum, jointly to the whole number of instruments from the five continents, you can see interactive screens with phones through which the visitor has access to the information, the sound and the visual image of those instrument displayed. With this type of exhibitions, we try to preserve a great cultural tradition. It is well-known that we can learn a lot about lifestyle, environment, influences, ancestral rituals, religion, etc., through the study of musical instruments.

Address:
Pedrera Street, Barranda (Caravaca de la Cruz)
Details:
Ph. and Fax: +34 968738491

Geographical coordinates:  Latitude 38.04494  Length -1.969889

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This exhibition is located in the old palace of Muñoz Otarola family where the local artist Jose Carrilero was born. This museum offers a 90 sculptures and pictorial works exhibition of this local artist.

In this way, the artist’s desire of having in his birth place his work is finally fulfilled, since for some time it was dispersed in different cities.

The work of this local artist characteristically expresses classicism harmonization with renewed point of view given by his personal touch. Caring particularly for the human figure, the surfaces and the contrast of light and shadows are notable features of his sculptures.

All this combined with relevance given to action and movement and the power to create dramatic emotions from formal means identifies his mature work, which has a national and international outreach.

Address:
Jose Carrilero Square.
Details:
Ph. +34 968705620
Fax: +34 968705199

Geographical coordinates:  Latitude 38.1066389  Length  -1.859306

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It is located in the former house of the family Muso Melgarejo, baroque building fully restored, in the old town. We can find it a few steps away from Caballos del Vino Square, traditional scene of several events during these peculiar unique in the world festivities on May the 2nd. 60 Lavishly harnessed horses with embroidered pieces go across the streets of the city to the popular race.

Inside the house-museum we can find the history and development of this fiesta that is own and exclusive of the people of Caravaca. It was declared Intangible Asset of Cultural Interet (Bien de Interes Cultural Inmaterial) and candidate to be Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO (Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad).

The “Wine Horses” trappings are formed by numerous embroidered on silk, gemstones and pailletes of gold and silver, custom-made for each and every horse and are renewed every year. The merit lies in this trapping showing perfect on the horse and in its own beauty and complexity too.

The displayed collection shows the Caballos del Vino evolution during the XX century – from simple traditional trappings of the beginning of the century made of wedding bedspread and other domestic clothes to the current extraordinary embroideries. Different times joint together in a shared feeling that has kept this fiesta alive in history, encouraging next generations of people from Caravaca to work with enthusiasm to make it bigger and better every year. This history is showed with love and respect to its participants in baroque still lifes that reproduce the greatness of Caballos del Vino.

Across the rooms we can also find audiovisual content that gather the most important moments of this festival, transmitting its beauty, power and emotion in which highlights a crucial moment: the legendary race of Caballos del Vino and race of ponies with their little caballistas on May 3rd, that represent the future of the festivities.

Address:
21 Gregorio Javier Street
Details:
Ph.: +34 868185096

Geographical coordinates:  Latitude 38.107778   Length  -1.862361

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