Portal de La Union
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Miner Park Union this week reached 25,000 visitors since it opened its doors last August, five months in which the influx of tourists has continued to increase, a trend that will continue during 2011 as the Park is to be missed numerous trips and cruises for domestic and international.
The 25,000 th person was Carmen Maria Lozano Rodriguez, a 16 year old coming from Molina de Segura with 23 members of his family and who, to his surprise, received a beautiful bouquet and a memento from the mayor of La Union Francisco Bernabé, and the councilman of Youth, Tourism, Health, Antonio Liarte.
Since it was opened in August, the Mining Park of La Union has received increased visits to the point that, at present, reservations are made three weeks in advance, a trend that will continue to rise in 2011 thanks an agreement to attract cruise ship tourists who arrived in Cartagena, excluding Imserso travelers and school visits, among others.
In addition, the furor that has attracted the Mining Park has been reflected in the emergence of this tourist attraction in various publications related to the transport of passengers or the airline as Renfe Air Nostrum, who dedicated in October an article titled "The EU : in the depths of the mine "in their free monthly magazine" buckthorn. "
It also has relevance in other professional fields such as tobacconists thanks to the article "A landscape with tradition," published in issue 138 (December) of 'MundoEstanco', the only journal of tobacconists nationwide.
Miner Park The Union will continue its doors closed between December 31 and January 14, 2011, reopening on the 15th.
CLAIM "SENSORY" UNIONENSE HISTORY
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 miners of the nineteenth century that will see "in situ" as they lived and worked for former miners of the Sierra de Cartagena - La Unión.
In particular, meant that the road rehabilitation and musealization of 33, the backbone of the whole, a kiln, some magazines, a vein of tin ore a laundry, a pool of sludge, the external facilities of the mine " Paul and Virginia "and the spectacular mine" Group Vicenta ", one of the most powerful attractions of 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 represents an investment of nearly three and half million euros, which have been incurred between the municipalities of La Union and Cartagena, the Autonomous Community of Murcia, through the concerted action of four different Departments , 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.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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