The sugar factory, Fábrica del Pilar, is undergoing a process of becoming a touristic flagship for Motril and within that project, the Tren de Molinos.

Last month, this area of the factory (the machinery hall) was presented to the press and general public as “an emblematic step towards the future.”

The Mayor, Luisa María García Chamorro, was very explicit when she said, “today, the 18th of February, will go done in the history of Motril.” She claims that experts in the field on industrial history, each month, visit the old factory and “openly recognised that Motril has made the right move by giving the factory back to the town.”

She went on to say, “our city is repaying a moral and emotional debt to the generations of men and women who have built what Motril is today.”

Sra.Chamorro said that this month would see the completion and handing over of the Casa del Ingeniero to the Board of Industrial Heritage for the Azucarero so that it can be the logistics centre for the whole restoriation operation behind the old, sugar-mill complex.

The Tren de Molinos is a hall where all the machinery was housed, comprising of huge wheels and cogs powered orginally by steam, to process the sugar cane into sugar; i.e., the mill house. The renovation of which has cost around two-million euros, three quarters of which came from the EU through the Fondos Feder

At present there is a project in place where people will be able to visit the works in progress and receive information about the history of this historic industrial complex – more on that to be published in the online edition.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)