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This is the literary route called "The Jewish Friend", which runs through different historical enclaves of the border Lorca that can be found in the homonymous novel by the writer Justo Pageo Ruzafa.
The councilman of Tourism in the City council of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, has informed that the Municipal Consistory, in collaboration with the one of Velez White, is going to start of imminent form a new tourist route denominated "The Jewish friend".
It is a literary route based on the homonymous novel by the writer Justo Pageo Ruzafa.
In fact, the first experience will take place on March 23 with departure from Velez Blanco, in which the participation of an Almeria collective is planned.
Francisco Montiel has indicated that the planned itinerary will visit different spaces in the municipalities of Lorca and Vélez Blanco, in which the novel is developed, being able to start at any of the two locations depending on the origin of the visitors.
It is worth noting that an official guide and the author of the novel will accompany the group in this adventure for approximately 8 hours with food included.
The itinerary established for the individual tour from our city is as follows:
Meeting Point in the Visitors Center of Lorca.
isita to the Hall of the Jewish Quarter of the Archaeological Museum of Lorca.
isita to the Jewry and Synagogue of the Castle of Lorca.
Mezquita del Centeno and Castillo de Xiquena.
Lunch in Vélez Blanco.
Visit to the Hill of the Jew and Castillo de Vélez Blanco.
End of the Visit.
The councilman of Tourism has said that the price of the route will be approximately € 26 for individuals with lunch and will be made with a minimum of 15 people next June 15.
For groups of between 30 and 50 people the itinerary will be adapted to the special needs of the group, contemplating their language and place of origin, as well as the price of the same.
Francisco Montiel explained that the author Justo Pageo Ruzafa is a writer and director of video and television, among his works include the series entitled "The Moriscos", "From the nail to the computer", and the documentary "Proud the wind hurt" (English version) : Proudly Hurt Wind) and the literary works "Notices of jail", "The battery of Bagdad" and in 2017 publishes "Tragedy and death of Abén-Humeya".
The book explains that before the death of David in an attack in Israel, his wife Esther and his father Ezequiel move to Spain to collect the unfinished result of their research on the Sephardic origin of the family, for which they require the help of Miguel , a good Spanish friend that David had told them a lot about, who in his capacity as a TV producer had come to Spain to record a documentary series for Israel and his family asked him to investigate the origin of his last name, Fajardo, in the part of the old frontier of the Nazari Kingdom of Granada, in the current provinces of Murcia and Almeria.
He begins his investigations with the help of Miguel who resides in Lorca but finds it more complicated than they expected since at that time the surname changes were frequent for reasons of conversion to other religions, dissimulation or change of residence, finding that a The same surname may be common to different creeds.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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