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On Friday, October 14, is scheduled to open to the public on archaeological park Windlass, after they have completed the work of recovery and valorization of the hill for public use.
This was announced by the Town Planning and Environment, Segado Joaquin, who has said that it opened without official opening, by the proximity of general elections.
The archaeological work and conditioning of the park have been completed and no reason to further delay the commissioning and the enjoyment by citizens, regardless of whether it opens, he explained Segado.
The park will open on Friday morning.
You can access it on the street Adarve or the escalator to the street San Fernando, which has been equipped with a system that will allow its remote operation, if stopped, from the base of the local police.
In order to control the operation of the ladder and safety of the archaeological remains, has also installed a video surveillance system, which runs throughout the park.
Another innovation is the electronic games for children who have been at the top of the hill.
As explained by Joaquin Segado are aimed at children over six years and during Saturday and Sunday, the company supplying staff to teach young curious aspects of its operation.
Works Pinwheel Park began in the summer of 2010 and have hit the top of the hill, with the aim of creating a new green space that lives with important archaeological remains exist there.
This project, included in Plan E, has had a budget that has been around 4 million euros, and its implementation has been conditioned by the progress of the archaeological work, from the second century BC to the sixteenth century AD.
Among the remains are a series of late Republican era vintage structures associated with a slightly earlier timing temple, located next to a sacellum or small chapel dedicated to the Syrian goddess Atargatis.
It also has intervened in the vicinity of the mill and chapel of San Cristobal, where the 90 were found the remains of a hypothetical castellum aquae, ie a structure for the storage and subsequent redistribution of water to the city in ancient times.
Finally, it has consolidated and restored the painting of the so-called Wall of the Dean and XVI century mill located on top of the hill.
In addition to the archaeological remains, the park offers landscaped spaces for the ride of citizens, a new gazebo and green space for which native species have been used, evergreen and deciduous, that have allowed the creation of rest and recreation areas shaded in summer and sunny in winter.
On Friday the public will know the end result of all the work, which took place last outpost Easter were opened to the public on a temporary basis Adarve hits the streets and San Fernando and showed a 10 per cent of the area entire park, which is now permanently open.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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