When a developer requests a license to slap down housing on a large area, they have to set aside 20% as green belt. This green area of the vega is set aside for sugar cane as a sort of living museum to this past industry.

This area is denominated the Parque Cultivo de La Caña and is part of the Pla1 and Pla2 belonging to Playa Granada.

All that development on Playa Granada saw 24m euros paid into the public coffers by developers but the Town Hall, spent it elsewhere instead of on the green-area park. Those were the years when cash was flowing in, then came the years of the skinny cows. So, as well as having to pay off bank loans, the Town Hall has also had to slowly put the money back into the pot.

Now, at last, they have the gelt and the determination to make the sugar-cane park museum and will spend 16m euros of it to start the park.

At present there is a footpath from the roundabout where the rum barrels are, heading south, under the N-340 and cutting across the area marked as the park, coming out on the Rambla de Las Brujas near Barrio Santa Adela.

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