The safety of the pilgrimage down Santa Eulalia de Merida, patron of Totana, will comprise more than 40 personnel to ensure the safety of pilgrims and the RM-502 road linking the towns of Totana and Aledo will be cut to traffic at 7:30 am, it remaining closed to traffic until 12:30 hours.
The procession with the image of La Santa de Totana begin at 9 am, scheduled time from the sanctuary, and will end at 12:00 pm in the Employer reaches the place of "El Rulo", on the outskirts of town where the wait for the civil, religious and people in general authorities.
The Councillor for Public Safety and Traffic, Agustin Gonzalo Martinez, said security device and the emergency plan provided for the transfer of the image of Santa to develop normally, and whose agreements were adopted at the last local board security citizen held on the occasion of the supervisory celebrations.
The device, consisting of more than 40 personnel, will be made by agents of the local police (8), Police, Civil Protection (15), members of the firehouse Alhama-Totana, agents Nature Protection Service and Traffic Civil Guard and environmental agents.
The MU-502 road will be closed to traffic at the site of the Cross of the Mission and Rulo Roundabout (which communicates with the Northern Bypass), just outside the town of Totana at 7:30 am and It will open to traffic once the image of Santa Eulalia reach the hermitage of San Roque, past 12:30 hours, after the official reception in "El Rulo".
Thus, vehicles wishing to enter the sanctuary shall do from this time on the road from La Huerta, which is enabled only as a gateway to the sanctuary of Sierra Espuña.
In addition, intermediate access to the MU-502 road traffic will be cut, so that it is requested that the traffic signals at the height of the transfer and other major roads are respected;
and only use the road from La Huerta, for which there is access to the chapel through the landscape of Sopanvino.
The Civil Guard also cut the road Totana Aledo-up to the hamlet of El Angel;
while the emergency coordination center will be established in the area of ​​eucalyptus, which will also be the Emergency and Municipal Health.
The mayor reported that also public transport service will be enabled to climb to the shrine from 5:30 am, the starting point this time will be from the Plaza of the Constitution in order to allow users to enjoy of the festive day.
Also, buses will rise again, for people who have left the car in the sanctuary, from 13:00 hours from Mission Cross.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana