The safety device of the pilgrimage of descent Santa Eulalia de Merida, Patron of Totana, which is celebrated this December 8, will be composed of fifty hundred troops that will ensure the safety of the pilgrims.
In addition, the MU-502 road, which connects the towns of Totana and Aledo, will be cut to traffic at 6:00 p.m. and will remain closed to vehicle traffic until after 13:00 p.m., when the image of La Santa arrives at The hermitage of San Roque.
The pilgrimage with the image of La Santa de Totana will start at 9 o'clock, scheduled from its sanctuary, and will end at 12:00 o'clock, when the Patroness arrives at the place of El Rulo, on the outskirts of the town, Where the civil authorities, religious and the people in general will wait for it.
The safety and emergency arrangements agreements were adopted at the last local citizen security meeting held on 18 November.
The device, made up of about 50 personnel, will be made up of local police officers, Civil Guard (traffic and rural), Civil Protection, Alhama-Totana fire department staff, members of the Nature Protection Service and environmental agents .
The MU-502 road will be cut to traffic at the height of the Cross of the Mission and the roundabout of the Rulo (which communicates with the North Ring), outside the town of Totana from 6:00 Approximately hours and will open to traffic once the image of Santa Eulalia arrives at the hermitage of San Roque, about 13:00 hours, after the official reception in El Rulo.
In this way, vehicles wishing to access the sanctuary must do so from this time by the well-known road of La Huerta, which will be enabled only as an access road.
In addition, intermediate access to the MU-502 road will be cut off from traffic, which is why it is requested that traffic signals be respected at the height of the transfer and other important access routes;
And only use the road of La Huerta, which accesses the hermitage through the place of Sopanvino.
The Civil Guard will also cut the Aledo-Totana road at the height of El Ángel;
While the emergency coordination center will be established in the Local Police and in the area of ​​Los Eucaliptos, where the Emergency and Municipal Health Service will also be located.
Likewise, a public transport service will be enabled to get to the sanctuary from 6:00 p.m. (and until 8:30 p.m.), whose starting point on this occasion will be the Plaza de la Constitución in order for the Users can enjoy the festive day.
The buses will go up again, for people who have parked vehicles in the vicinity of the sanctuary, from 13:30 hours, and back to Totana.
Prohibition of fires
Lastly, it is recalled that only vegetation fire can be made in the infrastructures of fixed and permanent nature enabled for this purpose in "El Ángel" and "El Grifo", being allowed outside of these only with camping-gas, so they must be followed At all times the indications of the environmental agents, Forces and Security Corps and the rest of the emergency personnel.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana