Portal de La Union
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A total of 10,700 people have visited the facilities of the new Mining Park of La Union during the first month of operation, according to data collected by the Tourist Consortium of the Sierra Mining, consisting of the City of La Union and Cartagena by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Autonomous Region of Murcia.
This data not only confirms the high expectations that had been deposited into the new resort, which is on track to break all existing brands to date in terms of number of visits in a facility of this nature.
The Mayor of La Union and Vice President of the Tourist Consortium of the Sierra Minera, Francisco Barnabas, said that "this is an exceptional product with a powerful ability to appeal and an ability to charm that leaves no one indifferent," and added that "the awakening tour of La Union and the whole region will become a reality throughout the year thanks to initiatives as powerful as the amazing Mina Groups Vicenta or the impressive Teatro Romano de Cartagena, we are on track and now we must continue investing in these types of projects that combine innovation and recovery of historical heritage. "
The Union Mining Park is open from Tuesday to Sunday, morning and afternoon and visits can be arranged by calling 902 52 00 14.
Also available all information on the website www.parqueminerodelaunion.com.
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.
The visit to the complex is via a mining train which transports visitors along the entire route.
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.
Miner Park The Union has already received two major awards at national level: the Santa Barbara Award, 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 in 2010.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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