Órgiva hits the limelight thanks to the Junta de Andalucía choosing the capital of the Alpujarra as the subject of a national pilot project on sustainable urban development.
Tag Archive for environment
Eco-Policemen
by Editor •
Two ‘Ecological Policemen’ will be keeping an eye on Salobreña’s environmental health.
Greenpeace Warning
by David Darby •
A Greenpeace report has named two locations on our coast as under threat. One is La Cagadilla beach in Salobreña, and the other is our own Cerro Gordo.
Environmental Information Centre
by David Darby •
Juan José Ruiz Joya, the Councillor for La Herradura, has presented a motion at a Town-Hall meeting, proposing that the Department of the Environment at the Junta de Andalucía, set in motion the actions necessary “to set about building an Information Centre in playa de Cantarriján.”
El Cerval Bajo and El Cerval Alto
by Editor •
It’s funny how you can live here for a score or more years and still find somewhere new just seven kilometres behind La Herradura. I’m talking about los Cervales, which is a small cortijada (hamlet) – two really, because you have El Cerval Bajo and El Cerval Alto. It wasn’t that long ago that the hamlet had no paved thoroughfare, no electricity and certainly no telephones.
“Outrageous expense”
by Martin Myall •
The Almuñécar PP are decrying the Mayor for the ‘exaggerated’ expense of the Peña Escrita mountain park.
Illuminating the rock…
by Editor •
Good news: there is new lighting on El Peñon del Santo, more commonly known as the cross on the rock.
Although the rock has been illuminated before, it had fallen into disrepair and the work on the new lighting system took so long that some of the new installations deteriorated and broke before the whole was completed. The job fell to the Granada company, Montajes Electricos Mañas about two years ago with a budget of 88,000 euros.