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The project, consisting disclose, first, and return, then both the old garden of the eighteenth century as the BIC building crowning the hill, is a collaboration with the CRect association and has the support of the region.

Create Your City Platform work on this initiative

The City of Cartagena, along with CRect association, which promotes environmental awareness, and support of the Autonomous Community, will promote the recovery of the former Royal Botanical Garden, with an area of 20,000 square meters, it was built in 1787 in the slopes of Cerro de los Moros in St. Lucia.

A project that has been released this morning the Deputy Mayor and responsible mayor of Greater Economic Strategy, Ana Belen Castejon, President of CRect, Santiago del Alamo, and Deputy Director General of Forest Policy, Juan de Dios Cabezas.

As noted Castejon, the Governing Board has approved an agreement with CreeCT for the period 2015-2016 are carried out actions to the disclosure and to see the light restitution of the former Royal Garden Botanical Cartagena, eighteenth-century entity dedicated to the collection and protection of the flora of our region and the supply and drug development for the Navy Hospital in addition to this action on the environment BIC crowning the hill and now considered necessary It is in a state of neglect.

The idea of recovering this huge space, which once projected place in the environment of the Amphitheatre and finally moved to the hill surrounding the Moorish Castle, was in the mind of the CRect association for some time, for various reasons, who explained Santiago del Alamo:

historical heritage, for the recovery of a BIC; urban-social, so that improvement would be socially vulnerable neighborhoods like Saint Lucia and Los Mateos and recovery of one of the hills of the city, environmental science and for his service science and teaching;

and tourism, as a magnet for visitors, any city focused on tourism has visited Botanical Garden.

The reconstruction was therefore would in its old location, which now already has the status of green space in the General Plan, and also adding a botanical walk, something unique, from the amphitheater plot belonging to the Port Authority but It will also give the council as a green area.

Now, the first step to advance the project is to create a framework in which to develop it, and this has created the online platform Creatuciudad , through which the pulse of the needs of the city will be taken. In this occasion, added the Alamo, we have seen that the Botanical Garden was this need and have signed an agreement with the UPCT whereby 25 architecture students are developing their final degree project on the return of this space project ending spring 2017, where a jury will award the best projects. Meanwhile, workshops, field trips and many other activities will be made.

Creatuciudad be launched on Thursday 29 with a conference to be held in the CIM, and the status of the project will be discussed and speakers give you a general idea where recovery could go, the historic environment and management of botanical gardens.

This is an initiative of the City and CRect.

As regards budget amounts for this project at the moment you are conceptualizing spatially, although, as has launched the deputy mayor the representative of the Autonomous Community, which has highlighted the interest of the regional government in promoting these conservation projects native plant species, from the council expect financial support, but funding from other governments and Europe will also be captured.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena