June 20 and 21 Activities and entertainment for all the family during the Noches del Camino festival in Caravaca
The Huertos del Vicario venue houses a market and plenty of music and entertainment for all ages!
There’s no doubt that the main musical event in Caravaca de la Cruz in June, or in the whole of the summer in fact, is the “Noches del Camino” festival in which artists including David Boisbal and Ana Torroja are performing, but alongside there is an excellent programme of supplementary music and other activities at Los Huertos del Vicario (click for map), where one of the stages for Noches del Camino is located.
These ancillary events are all free of charge and include an arts and crafts market, creative workshops and children’s activities as well as more music, both live and with DJs.
The programme is as follows:
Saturday June 20
The “Camino de los Oficios” area
11.00 to 20.00: Arts and crafts market.
11.00 to 14.00: Drawing with Scissors, a workshop with Greta Bungle (apt for all ages).
18.00 to 20.00: Face painting with “La Parada Fantástica” (for children).
The Senda Mágica area
11.15 to 12.00: Story-telling with Mario Moya.
The Encrucijada area
13.00: Aldhara live in concert.
14.00: Karlan live in concert.
17.00 to 20.00: Groove Bastards DJ.
Sunday June 21
The Senda Mágica area
11.30 to 12.30: Percussion workshop for children with Pepe Abellán.
The “Camino de los Oficios” area
11.00 to 14.30: Arts and crafts market.
11.00 to 14.00: ‘Trazos del Camino’, a collective mural painting with Eduardo Tomás Navarro, along with a cyanotype photography workshop (apt for all ages).
The Encrucijada area
12.30 to 14.30: Live performance by Son Loc.
With these activities at the Huertos del Vicario the Nochse del Camino festival continues to grow, and this year’s main program includes performances by Depedro and A Mares at the Castle-Basilica on Friday 19th June and the main event the following night at the fairground, featuring David Bisbal, Ana Torroja, Sanguijuelas del Guadiana, Barry B, Carlos Sadness and Rata.
Since it was first held in the Holy Jubilee Year of 2024 the two editions of the festival have attracted more than 15,000 music fans from all over Spain, boosting the local economy in the hospitality and hotel sectors, and in 2025 it was named Best New Festival at the Iberian Festival Awards.
Tickets are still available through the official festival website at www.nochesdelcamino.es.
For more local news, events and visiting information contact the local tourist office (telephone 968 702424) or go to the home page of Caravaca Today.
Address
Calle De Las Monjas, 19, 30400 CARAVACA DE LA CRUZTel: 968 702424 / 968 701003
Caravaca de la Cruz tourist office
More information about the places of interest which can be visited in the municipality of Caravaca de la Cruz, along with what's on and local news can be found in the Caravaca Today.
Caravaca de la Cruz, in the north-west of the Region of Murcia, is one of only 5 Holy Cities in the Roman Catholic world, a centre of pilgrimage, along with Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Santo Toribio de Liebana, and is home to the Cross of Caravaca, the Vera Cruz.
The status of Holy City was bestowed by Pope John Paul II in 1998, granting the City a Permanent Jubilee year every 7 years for perpetuity, the first one held in 2003 and the next in 2024.
The strategic and natural advantages of Caravaca de la Cruz have attracted the attention of settlers for more than 800,000 years, the Cueva Negra yielding remains of Homo Heidelbergensis, forbears of the Neanderthals and the municipality also houses important archaeological remains from the Argaric, Iberian and Roman cultures. many of these can be seen in the Municipal Archaeological Museum.
As a border town caught between the Catholic forces of Castille and the last remaining Moorish stronghold in Spain, Granada, Caravaca had a turbulent medieval history, but it was during this period that the legend of the Cross of Caravaca was born, bringing the religious orders which shaped the structure of Caravaca today, with its impressive hilltop castle and eclectic collection of churches and monasteries, religious tourism today being a backbone of the town´s economy.
Caravaca de la Cruz is a municipality with important natural resources, including extensive forests, part of which have protected status due to their wealth of flora and fauna, and due to the abundant water supplies is also a major area for canned fruit production, apricots in particular being an important crop.
Caravaca is renown for its important May Fiestas, held in honour of the Vera Cruz, which also incorporate the Moors and Christians celebrations and the Running of the Wine Horses.
Caravaca de la Cruz is also the home of Europe´s largest collection of ethnic instruments at Barranda, the Museo de Música Étnica Barranda and is the location of the Barranda festival de Cuadrillas, which celebrates the Region's ethnic music traditions.
The municipality is home to around 26,000 inhabitants and shares boundaries with Moratalla, Cehegín, Lorca, Puebla de Don Fadrique in the province of Granada and Vélez-Blanco in the province of Almería.
Tourist office opening times:
Weekdays: 10.00 to 14.00 and 16.30 to 19.30
Saturdays: 10.30 to 14.00 and 16.30 to 19.30
Sundays and public holidays: 10.30 to 14.00
Click for map, Caravaca de la Cruz Tourist Office
