Portal de La Union
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This morning the Mining Park of La Union has welcomed its 100,000 th visitor, honor which went to British citizenship Aline Newman, from the English town of Coventry, and is spending a few days relaxing in the Mar Menor area in the company of 50 other compatriots who also accompanied her on the visit.
The ceremony was held at the Mina Groups Vicenta and was chaired by our mayor, Francisco Bernabé, and the Director General of Cultural Assets of the Region of Murcia, Francisco Gimenez, who were accompanied by the councilors of Culture, Tourism and Environment, Julio Garcia, Antonio and Fernando Alcaraz Liarte respectively.
A Ms. Newman has delivered him a bouquet of flowers and a diploma from the event, which culminated with a flamenco recital for all attendees by the singer Encarnación Fernández, accompanied on guitar by Antonio Muñoz .
The 100,000 th visitor expressed his gratitude and has been impressed by the spectacular Mina Groups Vicenta, congratulating our authorities for the great work.
In addition, he noted that the fourth time visiting the Region of Murcia and loves our land, which he considers as a second home.
Our mayor has outlined the impressive achievement that is achieved as soon have a number of visitors so high, it only serves to confirm that the stunning Mina Groups Vicenta has already become, in its own right, one of the most important and impressive attractions available to the Region of Murcia.
Furthermore, she added, thereby demonstrating that the firm commitment in favor of a quality cultural tourism which has been immersed in recent years our mining and Flemish city is undoubtedly one of the safest ways to achieve economic recovery the municipality.
The Mining Park of La Union was inaugurated on July 9, 2010 by the President of the Region of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, opening its doors to the public a month later, so this important figure has reached just two years after its operation.
With a total of 50,000 square meters, the Mining Park of La Union is a pioneer in performance recovery heritage for its value as a tourist attraction and cultural nature, as it involves the recovery of a total of eight former reservoirs miners in the late nineteenth century that will see "in situ" as lived and worked for former miners of the Sierra de Cartagena - La Union.
The visit to the resort is via a mine train that takes visitors along the entire route.
Specifically, the park includes the rehabilitation of the road musealization 33, a kiln, a few magazines, a vein of tin ore laundry Mine "Salaried" a raft of sludge from the mine "Paul and Virginia", which has acted outside its facilities, and spectacular mine "Groups Vicenta" undoubtedly one of the most powerful interest with which will tell the Region of Murcia.
The mine "Groups Vicenta" dates back to 1869 and the recovery has become a unique and magical, quite different.
Its more than four thousand square meters open to the public, over eighty feet deep, making it one of the largest mines visited in Europe, at the same time one of the most impressive and unique for its vaults over eight meters high, its huge galleries, its extraordinary pillars and underground lake red water due to pyrite.
The Mining Park of La Union and has received two major awards at the national level: the Santa Barbara prize, an award that Associations of Mining Engineers was awarded as the best work of rehabilitation and recovery of the mining heritage, and economic magazine award European business, which saw the Mining Park the most innovative initiative that was launched in the region of Murcia in 2010.
Distinguished Visitors
In such a short space of time there have been many national and international personalities from diverse fields which have known and enjoyed the peculiarities of the Mina Groups Vicenta and the rest of the complex.
Among other, and at the institutional level, include the former Minister of Culture Angeles Gonzalez Sinde, Secretary of State for Tourism, Isabel Borrego, ambassadors in Spain or the U.S., Alan Solomont, and Japan, Satoru Satoh; the filmmakers Carlos Saura and Bigas Luna; reporters Carlos Herrera, Juan Ramón Lucas or Jesus Quintero, the writers Fernando Sanchez Drago and Maria Dueñas; actors Imanol Arial and Juan Echanove, to artists Martin Chirino and Luis Gordillo; the chefs Ferran Adria, Jose Andres and Lucio, the matador Jose Mari Manzanares and musicians Alejandro Sanz, Enrique and Estrella Morente, Miguel Poveda, Archangel or Tomatito, to mention only some of the big stars who have discovered the values social and aesthetic treasures this grand space.
TO A WEDDING
Certainly in the Mina Groups Ana Vicenta shines more authentically mine wedding that never took place in the history of our town, which took place on December 5, 2011, in a civil ceremony officiated by Mayor the light of a carbide and under the sound of mining songs, and that served to unite in marriage to the pairing of Ascension Crespo and Jose Ruiz.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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