Involve an investment of 1.2 million euros and boost tourism to the towns of Calasparra Cieza
From the Centre organized tourist activities, sports and environmental area
The government delegate in the Region of Murcia, Rafael González Tovar, the mayors of Cieza, Antonio Tamayo, and Calasparra, Jesus Navarro, and the Director General of Tourism, Marina Garcia, have carried out this morning the symbolic placement stone of the new Interpretation Centre Almadenes in Cieza, one of the actions of the Tourism Promotion Plan "Almadenes Gorge."
This Center will become the core of management actions carried out in this protected area, both sightseeing and other environmental and educational activities.
Among the latter are planned itineraries as the Via Ferrata and others to be developed in different seasons of the year and climbing.
Another role is the coordination with other complementary tourism resources, cultural and sports, to be held in the towns of Calasparra Cieza and also as part of the Tourism Promotion Plan.
Tovar González noted that "this is an essential investment to boost tourism in the area and promote environmental values available to the Region as well as offer new entertainment options."
The Interpretation Centre Almadenes
The center will be built in the space occupied by the so-called "Houses of Hydropower", next to Central Almadenes this company, for which has a total investment of 1,192,897 euros.
The building will host an open space for visitors, and an area of interpretation Almadenes Canyon and its environmental values.
We also have meeting facilities, activity rooms for sports and nature material and cafeteria and an administrative area of the center and parking.
Its construction is scheduled to join the environment so that the visual impact as small as possible and nature is part of the building.
The planned investment includes 589,641 euros for the building and equipment and 315,000 euros to 288,256 euros and interpretive material for the preparation of outdoor activities.
Tourism Promotion Plan "Almadenes Gorge"
The Tourism Promotion Plan of Almadenes Gorge has funding of 4.1 million euros in participating, equally, the Government of Spain, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Tourist Consortium Gorge which Almadenes local councils are part of Calasparra and Cieza.
This plan intends to promote environmental tourism in the area around the natural area Almadenes Canyon, through which the River Segura, forming one of the most unusual and beautiful places in the region.
The outdoor activities will be complemented with the development of cultural and sporting resources located in the immediate environment of that canyon in the municipalities of Cieza and Calasparra.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia