It was around about a year ago that Assyce, a leading company in renewable energy, opened up its new installations in Padul. Local politicians we full of praise, saying that this enterprise heralded a new future for the town… Assyce has since laid off 90% of its staff.
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Wind Farm Arson
by Vanessa Bosch •
It was back in 2008 that the project to build a wind farm on Cerro Calcaire (Padul) finally got the go ahead with work commencing in 2011; not everybody was happy with the idea. About month ago it was announced that the installations would be operational by the end of this year, generating enough electricity for 7,000 homes.
Sad New Record
by Editor •
Perhaps the classic AC/DC number can best sum up where the A-7 peters out into the N-340… Highway to Hell.
Pathways to the Sky
by Duncan Inglis •
if you aren’t sure where to go for a pleasant walkabout, just use your mobile to navigate to Eurorando 2011, which will give you all the poop on paths and happy trails, especially those to be found in Andalucia and the vecinity of El Padul.
The Windmills of their Time
by Duncan Inglis •
Before Don Quixote thrust his lance at the imaginary re-creations of his mind, the Arabs of course had settled and defined Al Andalusi forever with such things as windmills, which is why Francisco Muñoz is building three cortijos near an Arabic mill up in El Padul to which, he assures us, tourists from the world over are flocking.
Make Fun; not War
by Duncan Inglis •
The old military training complex up by El Padul, which opened not long after the Spanish Civil War, may soon become a sports and leisure centre.
Frozen Students
by Editor •
Padul’s budding scholars at the San Sebastian school are tolerating freezing classrooms thanks to a combination of power cuts and a new heating system, the former, all too common, erasing the programming of the latter.
Wetlands Stroll
by Duncan Inglis •
Padul is home to the most important wetlands in the southeast of Spain. Most people don’t know – not even the locals – that it exists, in spite of it covering 300,000 hectares.
(VB) Muebles in Órgiva
by David Darby •
Are you thinking about a really stylish Christmas gift for someone? Well don’t think you have to travel miles to find a stylish store with all the elegant detail you’re looking for.