The provincial president of the Popular Party and mayor of Toledo, Carlos Velázquez, supported this Saturday the commitment of improve and improve the Urda pilgrimage route“for which we launched a meeting with the mayors of the municipalities crossed by this road, which, I am sure, will bear fruit very soon”.
This was stated during a visit to Urda (Toledo), where he attended together the festivities in honor of the Holy Christ of the True Cross and participated in the processional transfer of the image from the minor basilica to the temple of San Juan Bautista. with the president of the PP of Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Núñez; the city’s mayor and provincial deputy, Manuel Galán; the vice-president of the Provincial Council of Toledo, Joaquín Romera, and deputies, senators and mayors.
Velázquez announced that he hoped that “from next year we will be able to establish paths to unite even more around this important figure of popular religiosity of the province, like Christ of Urda”, strengthening “the links that they connect Urda to many municipalities in the province, such as the city of Toledo itself.
Massive procession of Christ descending from the basilica to the parish
In this sense, he recalled that Christ of Urda appears in “one of the most important manifestations of popular devotion in all of Spain and, obviously, the most important in Castile-La Mancha and the province of Toledo ”, which is why he encouraged all residents of the province to visit Urda these days “because it is a truly unique experience.”
Finally, he praised the city for being “an example of how to do things well, of how to combine faith, popular religiosity and traditions with festive and leisure spaces for all the people who come to Urda these days- ci”, a place that is filled with citizens from all over the country, due to the enormous devotion that Christ of Urda awakens.
