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The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro representative element here, accompanied by the councilors of Infrastructure, Ã ngel Nicolas Bernal and Tourism, Palazón Carolina than the chairman of the Port Authority, Antonio Sevilla
The lighthouse of Cabo de Palos is anniversary.
This sea as representative of the Region of Murcia element met last January 31, 150 years.
For this reason, the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro with councilors Infrastructure, Ã ngel Nicolas Bernal and Tourism, Palazón Carolina than the chairman of the Port Authority, Antonio Sevilla have made ​​a visit in the vicinity of the lighthouse.
Besides the president of the Neighborhood Association of Cabo de Palos, Cristina Palacios Aguado has advanced some activities held to mark the anniversary.
Aguado explained
to that end have the collaboration of the Mediterranean College of La Manga to celebrate the Cultural Week of Faro.
Diving schools also participate in this celebration as the lighthouse of Cabo de Palos is not the only one whose birthday: Marine Reserve also Ants Island celebrates its 20th anniversary.
The event will open a series of activities will be the path of the Ten Thousand Steps, where we make a long journey that will end at the lighthouse.
The program of events will begin on March 27 and will continue up to the festivities of Cabo de Palos which is held in mid-August with a great activity that can not come forward, has continued explaining Cristina Aguado.
The chairman of the Port Authority, Antonio Sevilla has also highlighted the importance of this anniversary: ​​We birthday as this lighthouse is turned on for the first time on January 31, 1865. Formerly there was a tower of the XVI century and later He became maritime signal as this is a very dangerous area. Furthermore, also wanted to highlight the lighthouse belongs to the history of our region and represents the lowest sea and, of course, to Cabo de Palos.
The lighthouse of Cabo de Palos is a Cultural Interest and is also a tourist attraction and has been assured the president of the Port Authority: This very representative element attracts many tourists and especially those from cruise since one of the tours is the lighthouse at Cabo de Palos.
For the Port Authority is important as it started out as a beacon of olive oil, then paraffin, through oil, electricity and now a radio GPS signals.
Here live four families who are responsible for maintaining the lighthouse in conditions, has continued explaining Antonio Sevilla.
A DECISION TÃ ‰ TECHNIQUE AND NO POLITICS
In response to questions from journalists regarding the concourse car of administrative litigation forcing the council to pay as before the joint venture companies that manage the auditorium of El Batel grant to relieve operating losses, the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro has said it is a purely technical, not political.
Barreiro noted that according to the contract that aid was being paid regularly in accordance with the criteria of the municipal officers, who subsequently varied in the wake of the interpretation of the Court of Auditors, which considered that payment had to be made by a different procedure .
In response the same technicians were those who decided to retain the cautelarrmente payment and the company appealed the administrative litigation, which has now said that while the fund does not solve the issue, the City must follow reagularmente paying the subsidy.
Barreiro has insisted that the situation is more political significance, but merely technical and coming to clarify purely legal concepts.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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