Portal de La Union
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The President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, the Mayor of La Union, Francisco Barnabas, and the government representative, Rafael González Tovar, officially inaugurated the Mining Park of La Union, an ambitious makeover of heritage recovery that will make the town referring unionense undisputed regional tourism.
The Mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, expressed his "great satisfaction to see come true, after three years of hard work, a project crucial to the future of our city."
"Recovering our heritage to become a tourist attraction clearly distinct from other offerings, will make the Union a benchmark of the highest quality in this sector" said Barnabas.
The Mayor has stated that "the mine is our history, our roots, the Mining Park will enable both residents of La Union and visitors know about our past and very hard work played by the miners of that time," said .
Finally, he emphasized "the great strategic position enjoyed by the Mining Park, just minutes from the sun and beach tourism in the Mar Menor, and cultural tourism in the city of Cartagena."
The Mining Park, which will allow visitors to learn the entire process of the former mining industry of the nineteenth century (from ore extraction to its transformation into metal), is located in the foothills of the Sierra Minera.
Access is from the back of the landmark Old Public Market, after crossing the railway line.
Once there, visitors can park your car in the parking area to make the journey on foot, by bicycle or on board the mine train that will move around the complex.
The backbone of the whole is the way of 33, legendary mining route that crosses the Sierra unionense Mining and communicates with Portman Union and the Mediterranean Sea.
This path was the main route between the mining of the Sierra.
With a total of 50,000 square meters, the Mining Park of La Union is a pioneering activity in the recovery of historical heritage to its value as an attractive tourist and cultural nature, because it involves the recovery of a total of eight old fields nineteenth-century miners that will see "in situ" as they lived and worked for former miners of the Sierra de Cartagena - La Unión.
Specifically, the Park provides for the rehabilitation and musealization of Road 33, a kiln, a few magazines, a vein of tin ore in a laundry, a raft of sludge from the mine "Paul and Virginia ", which has acted outside its facilities, and spectacular mine" Group Vicenta "undoubtedly one of the most powerful attraction to those who will have the Region of Murcia.
The mine "Group Vicenta" dates back to 1869 and their recovery has become a unique and magical, absolutely different.
Its more than four thousand square meters open to the public, more than eighty feet deep, making it one of the mines visited largest in Europe, along one of the most impressive and unique in its vaults for more than eight feet, its huge galleries, special columns and its underground lake red water due to the pyrite.
The Mining Park The Union has already received two major awards at national level: the prize Santa Barbara, an award that the Official College of Mining Engineering was awarded as the best work of rehabilitation and recovery of the mining heritage and the economic magazine award European Business World, which considers the Mining Park the most innovative initiative that will launch in the Region of Murcia by 2010.
The Mining Park, which construction began in summer 2007, is an initiative led by the municipality of La Union.
The entire project involved an investment of nearly three and a half million euros, which have been paid between the municipalities of La Union and Cartagena, the Autonomous Community of Murcia, through the concerted action of four Departments different, highlighting the special support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the project, and the Government of Spain, through the participation of two different ministries.
VISIT TO PARK MINING
- Highway 33.
Legendary Route unionense mining.
Through the Sierra Minera and communicates with Portman Union and the Mediterranean Sea.
- Raft of sludge.
To collect waste from the washing of the area.
- Oven roasting.
It is one of the few ovens preserved in the Sierra.
Its function was to calcine the ore to obtain metal.
- Philo of the Uncompensated Mina.
This is a tin mine operated open pit and underground, giving it the characteristic appearance of a large crater filled with holes.
- Mina Groups Vicenta.
First and only underground mine in the Region of Murcia, musealised and conditioned for the visiting public.
It was dedicated to the removal of pyrite from 1869 to mid-twentieth century.
With over 4,000 m2, open to the public, 80 meters deep, is one of the largest and most spectacular mines visited in Europe, highlighting the inland lake waters reddish due to the pyrite.
- Mina Paul and Virginia.
Were recovered outside buildings, among which are its large hopper, and part of the access gallery of this farm for the removal of pyrite.
- Polvorines.
Place where the explosives were stored.
Part of its facilities are being used for years as a small chapel.
- Utility Paid Mine.
It was a sink gravity, ie, separated by mechanical means minerals and gangue (waste matter accompanying minerals), based on their different specific gravities.
This technology was used laundry "Cornish", imported from the British tin mines, particularly in the area of Cornwall.
In the Laundry Paid Mine is the best representation of round-budless or "directions" that exists in Spain and probably in Europe.
- Visitors Centre.
Equipment which performs the Sierra Mining and resources of interest.
RATES AND INFORMATION FOR THE VISIT TO THE PARK MINING
Individual rate
Adults - € 9.50
Retired - 6 €
Students - 6 €
Children (5 to 16 years) - 6 €
Under 5 years - 1 €
Large families
Adults - 6 €
Children (5 to 16 years) - 4 €
Groups (20 people)
Adults - 7 €
Retirees, students and children (5 to 16 years) - 4 €
The Mining Park complex will be open to the public from July 20, Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 14:00 hours and 16:00 to 20:00.
To arrange visits, interested parties should contact by telephone: 902 52 00 14.
The park has a site Mining: www.parqueminerodelaunion.es.
OPEN HOUSE
Next week, the Mining Park will be visited, and agreed by representatives of the tourism sector.
Moreover, the initiative of the City of La Union, residents of the Union may visit for free the Mining Park complex, 15 and July 16 from 10:00 to 13:00 and 17:00 to 20 : 00 hours.
Those interested should pick up their invitations from next Monday, July 12, from 9:00 to 14:00 pm in the City Tourism Office of La Union (House building Pinion, C / Mayor, 55), on production official document attesting to their residence in the city.
AUTHORITIES IN THE OPENING
Besides the President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, the Mayor of La Union, Francisco Barnabas, and the government representative, Rafael González Tovar, the opening of the Mining Park is attended by numerous authorities as the President of the Assembly Regional Celdrán Francisco, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, the Director of Public Works and Planning, José Ballesta, the Minister of Universities, Business and Research, Salvador Marín, the Deputy Mayor of Cartagena and national, Pilar Barreiro, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Maria Luisa Lopez, the Director General for the Promotion of Culture, Francisco Giménez, Director General of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, the Director General of Tourism, Marina García , the Director General of Industry, Energy and Mines, José Francisco Puche, the Director General of Highways, Jose Guijarro, Director General of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, Pablo Fernández, Secretary General of the Delegation of the Government, Juan José Camarasa, the Director of the Department of Industry and Energy of the Government Office, Francisco Faraco, the Director of the Development of the Government Office, Diego Peñarrubia, the Director of the San Javier airport, Angela Navarro Regional Deputies, Juan Antonio Sanchez Castañol, Sanes and Antonio Martínez Manuel Bernal, the Municipal Corporation of the City of La Union, the Councillor of Tourism of the City of Cartagena, Javier Herrero, the Decentralization and Health Councillor of the City of Cartagena, Nicolas Angel Bernal, the Rector of the University Politécnica de Cartagena, Felix Faure, the President of the Regional Confederation of Organizations of Murcia, Miguel del Toro, President of the Confederation of Employers of Cartagena and Shire, Diego Illán, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation Cartagena, Miguel Martinez, the President of the Association of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations in Cartagena, Francisca Naranjo, the president of the Regional Federation of Employers of Hospitality and Tourism in the Region of Murcia, Soledad Diaz, the President of the Association Hoteliers in the region of Murcia, Jesus Francisco Pacheco, the president of the Camping Association of Murcia, Manuel Baron, the Dean of the College of Mining Engineers of the Levant, Virgilio Bermejo, the Dean of the College of Mining Engineers Lift , Juan Manuel Manrubia as well as strong representation of the tourist, academic, economic and union of the Region as the Director of the School of Tourism Cartagena, Jose Juan Aniorte, the Academic Director of the School of Tourism Murcia , Manuela Lopez, Technical Director of the School of Tourism Murcia, Amador Lopez, the chief executive of the Tourism School of Murcia, José Manuel Moya, the Vice Chancellor of University Extension, University of Murcia, Francisco Guillermo Díaz Baños ADG Caja Murcia, Juan Antonio Campillo, and the Secretary of Internal Coordination and People's Houses of the General Union of Workers in the Region of Murcia, José Francisco Navarro.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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