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The Local Government Board of the City Council of Benidorm has approved this morning the award of the construction contract for the execution of the project ‘Camping and Multi-Adventure Zone in Séquia Mare Park’ for a budget of 710,253.06 euros. This project is included in the Tourism Sustainability Plan for Destination 2023, specifically in action 11 axis 4, ‘Green Benidorm’. The award has been granted to the company Mediterráneo de Obras y Asfaltos SA, and the awarded contract establishes a six-month execution period.
This initiative is part of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan financed by the European Union-Next GenerationEU, Recovery and Resilience Mechanism, established by Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and the Council, of February 12, 2021, Component 14, Investment 1, Sub-measure 2, of the PRTR, managed by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Tourism. Extraordinary program for tourism sustainability plans in destinations 2022 and 2023.
According to the project, the new camping and multi-adventure area to be created will be located next to the youth hostel facilities and interpretation center with the aim of promoting concepts and values such as sustainability, coexistence, and healthy leisure. In this sense, Mayor Toni Pérez has stated that it is a project «with which we complete the configuration of this green space as a meeting point for the general public and the youth population in particular.»
The mayor has emphasized that once completed, the city will have «a space practically unique in the province of Alicante, which will also serve to highlight our environmental and historical wealth,» which is why he has expressed his belief that it «will have significant demand.»
The project’s execution will fully respect the existing paths and terraces; while the bathrooms and changing rooms will be located in the main access area near the hostel. Next to this access, as stated in the project, there will be a pergola-type enclosure with a central kitchen that will follow the typology and design of the main building of the hostel and interpretation center.
In addition, Pérez has specified, «there will be direct communication between the multi-adventure area and the camping area, but without both uses interfering with each other.» The mayor has recalled that the creation of all these facilities in Séquia Mare Park «was included in our strategy to carry out rehabilitation and valorization actions on public assets, opening them to the public and citizen use.» In fact, in his opinion, the park is configured as «an ethnographic-cultural and tourist asset that facilitates the population’s contact with nature.»
«We value historical elements of the city in a location where there are still remnants of Séquia Mare, which was part of the ancient system of the Riego Mayor de Polop, which supplied irrigation water to the cultivable orchard areas of the municipal term,» added Toni Pérez, for whom the camping area and the multi-adventure park will be «a new strategic axis with significant potential in tourism by promoting the contact of citizens and visitors with nature.»