The Board of the La Santa Foundation, in which the Totana City Council is integrated, announces that the opening stages of the Eulaliense Road are officially postponed, which were originally scheduled for October 10, 11 and 12, due to that the growing evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic advises it.According to sources from this entity, as soon as the situation stabilizes and the sanitary measures allow it, we will proceed to study and communicate the dates of the new stages to continue with this exciting, ambitious and spiritual project of opening a new pilgrimage path .The La Santa de Totana Foundation hopes to continue soon with this project, at the national level, to open the way between the Totana Sanctuary and the sister city of Mérida, always under the protection and protection of our patron Saint Eulalia de Mérida.Last July the last four stages held to date took place, corresponding to two weekends that took place within the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and las Villas Natural Park, all within the province of Jaén.The La Santa Foundation promoted in 2019 this new pilgrimage route in Spain that connects Totana with Mérida, linking these two cities twinned by the devotion to Santa Eulalia through different greenways.
The Eulaliense Road consists of 674 kilometers, divided into 30 stages that are intended to be developed in four main sections.About fifty pilgrims this summer contemplated the stages of July 11 and 12 that included the sections Domingo-Pontoons (15 kilometers) and Pontones-Hornos (22 kilometers); while the following weekend of July 18 and 19 they were held between Hornos-Tranco de Beas-Venta Pino (28 kilometers) and Venta Pino-Villanueva del Arzobispo (8 kilometers), all of them in the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas, in Jaén.
