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On Monday, the Councilor for Culture and Heritage and President of District 6, Ricardo Segado, traveled to La Palma to visit the 'Orchard of Cándido', where he met with representatives of neighborhood, social and cultural entities of this council Of the Field of Cartagena.
Among those present was also the official chronicler of Cartagena, José Sánchez Conesa.
Segado was interested in the trajectory of a space that has been protagonist in the history of this rural area during the last 65 years, counting on more than 223 different species grouped in 60 vegetal families.
Among them are cactus varieties such as agave attenuata, columnar cactus, globular cactus, etc., as well as a great variety of tree species.
During the visit, the mayor informed that soon in local Board of Government will be informed of the transfer of the garden made by its owner, Cándido García Molera, to the City of Cartagena.
It is a vergel that in the last years has been reduced its maintenance, appreciating a remarkable deterioration in its conservation, logical consequence by the advanced age of its impeller, Candide, and the lack of relief in its daily care.
However, the City Council assumes ownership of a garden that can hold different utilities since, at the time of assessing its influence as a large green lung, must add their ornamental interest for possible didactic uses of school in botany.
Likewise, it is contemplated to make known its influence in the recent history of La Palma, something that could be translated through an exhibition that remembers the evolution of the orchard.
The space donated will be called 'Huerto de Cándido and Ana María'.
The agreement of assignment also includes the possibility of establishing collaboration agreements for dissemination purposes with entities related to botany or associations of non-profit nature protection.
HAND OF CANDID
The Huerto de Cándido is a privileged green enclave located in the center of La Palma, between Ricardo Bellver and Cordillera Bética streets.
It is the result of the illusion overturned by an octogenarian palmsman, Cándido García Molera.
He wanted to convert a space of 3,755 square meters in a large botanical garden and landscape in his village.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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