Caravaca

Caravaca lies beneath a hilltop fortress near the old frontier between Murcia and Granada. Its most revered treasure is the double-armed Cross of Caravaca, associated by tradition with a miraculous appearance in the thirteenth century. Pilgrims came to venerate the relic, and in the seventeenth century a sanctuary was begun within the castle to house it. The cross became the enduring symbol of the town.