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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, accompanied by the mayor of La Unión, Bernabe Francisco today presented Fitur the Mining Park of La Union, which will show visitors the historical heritage of this region of Murcia from next month June

Cruz explained that the Park will represent "an enormous undertaking recovery and value of one of the cultural heritage, ethnographic and anthropological largest available to the region," while stressing that "this project is an example of how Estate Recovery can become a way of being at the forefront.

It is not without further rehabilitation, but to return what was so important in the nineteenth and twentieth part, which is the value of experience by showing visitors how they lived and worked for former miners of Sierra de Cartagena and La Union. "

The complex occupies an area of 50,000 square meters in the foothills of the Sierra Minera and will have a mine train where tourists can move to the different exhibition spaces.

The Park includes the rehabilitation and well-known musealization Road 33, former gateway to the holdings.

The adviser also said the recovery of a number of related elements, such as kilns, magazines, a vein of tin, a laundry and mines mineral Paul and Virginia, as well as Mina Vicenta Groups, which started in 1869 and is destined to become one of the biggest attractions of the region.

Mine Recovery Vicenta Groups makes it a singular and unique space, one of the largest mines visited in Europe, with more than 4,000 square meters open to the public, more than 80 meters deep.

Cruz said that this mine is one of the most impressive thanks to its vaults for more than 8 feet high and reddish water underground lake, due to the effect of pyrite. "

The works of Mining Park of La Union began the summer of 2007 with an investment of close to 3.5 million euros from the municipalities of Cartagena and La Union, the autonomous region, through the concerted action of four of its ministries and central government.

Source: CARM