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The horses came roaring burst and annually in the spring of Caravaca, on May 2, opening wide the gates of the festival every year is dedicated to the Blessed.

Cruz Caravaca, Murcia Northwest particular corner.

A display of fantasy and symbolism.

Cult given the strength, value, beauty and the senses.

The origins of the festival are lost in the mists of time blending between history and legend.

According to popular tradition, while the Templar fortress besieged by the Moors of Granada Caravaca, around 1250, and requiring the inhabitants of the same water to stock, as the cisterns were exhausted, a group of valiant Knights Templar crossed the Muslim site, with the risk that this entailed, and wineskins loading on the backs of their horses, unable to get water in Campillo de los Caballeros, back again, fast and spectacular race, to defeat the enemy siege to transport water Castle defense element, which already kept, from 1231, the relic of the Blessed.

Cruz.

Upon arrival they were greeted with jubilation therefore offering and sprucing women to young men and horses richly embroidered robes and bouquets of flowers, considering, in this way, heroes and saviors of the situation.

Since the Middle Ages, more or less splendor, according to the times, has been held annually the anniversary.

However, it is in S. XVIII, in full Baroque, is when the party begins to appear as such, and during the Romantic Decimónico playful when it reaches the structure it has today.