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The town is committed to tourism development and job creation with new infrastructure, offering more services and better training and qualifications of employees.
The project Medina Nogalte 3.3 million euros earmarked for the restoration of the castle and 146 houses Cuevas, among other actions.
Puerto Lumbreras Campus will create a specialized training in hotels and restaurants.
Among other facilities, this campus will include the conversion of Parador Parador Nacional de Turismo in school.
"Tourism is a key area for development of a municipality, an economic growth opportunity and a tool to generate employment," said the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez.
For this reason, the municipality has a plan lumbrerense development in the tourism area which will involve the investment of twelve million euros in this area.
The central objective of the program, which includes various projects related to different policy areas, to improve infrastructure, increase the supply of services and generate more jobs and better quality.
Among the projects include the Revitalisation Plan Nogalte Medina, the City Hotel and Restaurant School and the future creation of two museums, the Easter and another for the local folklore.
Puerto Lumbreras, open-minded town
"Tourism is a sustainable way to exploit our natural resources, a key to local growth and a business opportunity and development for the future" with these words qualified the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras and Member of the Regional Assembly of Murcia, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) the need to develop policies "that create new opportunities for this sector, provide better quality training and building new infrastructure and better services."
For this reason, the municipality of Puerto Lumbreras has prompted the Tourism Promotion Plan "Nogalte Medina, which has a budget of 3.3 million euros for its implementation.
Under the headline "Get in Puerto Lumbreras," the Hall has prepared a plan of work in the tourism sector that provides an integrated and coherent actions in terms of infrastructure and facilities, especially in relation to the enhancement of the environment of the Castle of Nogalte and Cave Houses are located around it.
Among other actions, the plan includes construction of a center with exhibits and the recovery of the cave houses and their adaptation to different facilities of hotel, restaurant and construction of a Traditional Craft Centre, shops or accommodation services.
It is also planned the construction of a open-air auditorium, cultural facilities and new means of transport to facilitate the connection to the different areas of the municipality.
Also included are actions for the development of space tourism and to improve communication, signage, training, quality, promotion and marketing that will affect the whole municipality.
Among the most private of this project, the recovery of 146 cave houses, which are a reference signs in the municipality.
Located near Castle Nogalte, the homes in the bowels of the earth were occupied until recently.
It is estimated that its origin dates from the early nineteenth century, extending its development and functionality to the sixties of this century.
Many people with the development of current works up to the place to finish evoking memories of life in caves.
The area will also cultural infrastructure facilities dedicated to recreational use, commercial and scope of tourism and culture.
City School Project, train to be better
The tradition of tourism and hospitality of Puerto Lumbreras has been linked to an intensive specialized training that could support the entrepreneurial motivation of its people.
For this reason, the council lumbrerense planned commissioning of the project "City School", whose goal is to turn the town into a national benchmark in specialized training in hotels and restaurants.
"Puerto Lumbreras have a real campus for specialized training in hotel and restaurant, a formula to generate employment, improve the quality of the sector and contribute to the overall development of tourism in the region."
To address this purpose, the council has commissioned, along with the Regional Government, a Master Plan that outlines actions the main lines of work in the tourism sector in the area.
The central objective is to provide a better quality training for the booming tourism sector of the region.
The training will focus on three main lines of action.
First, it will launch a delegation from the Regional Center of Competence in Tourism, which will add its educational offerings to the announced School of Hotel located next to the Parador Nacional.
Besides these two institutes, the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, announced the conversion of a Parador Parador School.
"Puerto Lumbreras has always been a place open to the world.
The Parador of the area is viable, has a future, and may assert as a sign of identity tourism, social and economic situation in the town, "said the municipal mayor, who has also highlighted the importance of the municipal sector as an engine for development economic and job generator.
Thus, through an agreement with the Paradores of Spain and Secretary General of the House, will invest five million euros in turning in a Parador Parador School will offer its training in Spain.
The project is expected to start operation by 2012.
There are only two House with these characteristics in Spain and shared areas of influence: Leon and Puerto Lumbreras.
From Madrid to the south of the Parador will lumbrerense training area.
"Our purpose is to provide Puerto Lumbreras of the infrastructure and mechanisms needed to become the national benchmark in the hospitality sector in the field of training," says Pedro Antonio Sánchez.
"Currently the tourism sector offers an important opportunity for employment and the Region of Murcia is becoming recognized as an important benchmark in the sector.
We have designed a major training center will lead to higher quality and offer an opportunity for the future lumbrerenses entrepreneurship and economic growth for all its inhabitants. "
Alongside these projects, it is necessary to highlight the new range of high school vocational courses that are taught in the vocational training institute Nogalte Rambla.
Puerto Lumbreras, municipality for tourism
In the section on infrastructure, there are other projects that will enrich the tourist offer of the municipality in specialized areas.
"Our intention has been to preserve the culture and folklore of Puerto Lumbreras and convert our identity in a claim for the visitor."
To this end we have initiated two projects that will culminate with the construction of two separate museums, museum of the Holy Week brotherhoods and other ethnographic choirs and dances, which will also have their units for teaching and the activities of Easter and folk dancing.
The cost of both projects is one and half million euros.
CITY OF PORT PORTING
Puerto Lumbreras is located in the westernmost part of the Region of Murcia and is the boundary of the region as access to the Community of Andalusia.
Has an area of 139 km2 and a population approaching 15,000.
Puerto Lumbreras is characterized by large contrasting landscapes due to the existence of the mountains and the valley that are attached along the Ramblas.
TOURISM IN THE CITY
"The geographical area of Puerto Lumbreras, geography and natural areas and developed infrastructure projects planned for the town make this enclave Murcia an ideal place for tourism development and visitor interest," he highlighted Pedro Antonio Sánchez.
Lumbrerense The mayor has referred to the qualities that make the town a place of great prospects for the future of tourism.
Among other features, has made reference to the natural landscape of Cabezo de la Jara, a place considered by the European Union Special Interest Community.
The area, along with other areas such as the Sierra Amid the Peñas de Bejar, or different Ramblas of the municipality, by its nature has become an ideal space to enjoy nature, for which there are all kinds of activities organized, as the realization of climbing or hiking trails and facilities of all kinds in the vicinity, such as houses or youth hostel.
Besides these places of accommodation, the municipality also has a wide selection of hotels, recently increased to 140 beds has meant the opening of Riscal hotel, which will add another 300 seats.
HOTEL INFRASTRUCTURE
The town of Puerto Lumbreras offers visitors numerous hotel facilities to enjoy a rural environment, which is necessary to add the current construction of two new hotels with a combined capacity of 300 seats.
Parador Nacional de Turismo: 109 seats
Riscal Hotel: 140 beds
Hostal Rural El Sol: 26 places
Camping Los Angeles: 35 plots
Youth Hostel Cabezo de la Jara: 57 seats
Cottages.
New hotels in project: 250 seats
CRAFT AND GASTRONOMY
The artisans use local materials to manufacture its products and use manual techniques for working with wood, stone, ceramics, glass, cane and esparto.
Throughout the former National Highway 340, which currently runs through the town, many pottery places that visitors can enjoy.
Puerto Lumbreras as a transit through history has been and is a town with great gastronomic tradition.
Among the traditional dishes include crumbs, aletria, porridge, rice and turkey.
The killing and homemade sausages are another tradition of the municipality, and in their establishments can purchase this type of household products.
The pastry is sweet dessert par excellence of the municipality, as it keeps the tradition of them bathed in hot sugar to last without the refrigerator.
TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
Nogalte Castle is a medieval Islamic fortress was built between S.
XII and XIII.
He is currently in rehabilitation, and highlights the existence of 6 towers that are attached to the cob wall.
Geo-heritage landscape: houses, caves Nogalte Castle. The hilltop overlooking the indigenous people of Puerto Lumbreras is covered with "cave-houses, in times and currently inhabited rehabilitation and recovery.
Heritage, the Old Town. This neighborhood preserves its traditional architecture and distribution in the image of other "White Villages" typical of Mediterranean geography.
Currently they are building the house-museum of the Brotherhoods, the Museum of Folklore and Folk Dances, and it has been rehabilitating the House Elves.
Cabezo Route de la Jara. Less than 7 km.
from the center of Puerto Lumbreras, Paraje Natural de la Jara Cabezo, one of the most iconic green spaces in the region not only for its typical Mediterranean flora, but also for the fauna, 14 are the routes that run through this place.
The Astronomical Observatory. At the head of the Jara, an area perfect for your altitude to enjoy the constellations, stars, planets can be seen on guided tours offered at the observatory.
Water Route. This route adds value to all water resources throughout history have served for lumbrerenses supply could be something as precious in the area, all set within the natural areas of Puerto Lumbreras and surroundings.
Stud 'Peña de Bejar. "Founded in 1996 currently has 450 copies in Spanish race in 130 blocks.
The facility has its own veterinary clinic and a function room with capacity for 2,000 people.
Church 'Virgen del Rosario'. Data of the nineteenth century and is situated at the foot of the Casco Antiguo.
Latin cross plan contains within it the 'Museo de la Virgen'
Casa del Cura. Property of the eighteenth century with more than 7,200 m2 of land around it.
Place for a tourist-cultural use, currently in rehabilitation.
CELEBRATIONS IN PORT PORTING
Explum Contemporary Art Competition. Around March, Puerto Lumbreras celebrates the International Art Competition Explum emerging, composed of one side of an art competition in which artists from around the world.
On the other hand celebrates the musical event in the environment Nogalte Castle.
Cultural Nogalte. Throughout the entire month of July, Puerto Lumbreras held a wide range of cultural activities using the most attractive places in the locality.
Feasts of July 7. On this date, Puerto Lumbreras Lorca celebrates its independence and its constitution as an independent City Council.
About this time there are many festive events held in the town.
Baile de la Reina. In a gala held before more than 2,000 attendees in which, under a great staging, the lumbrerenses choose what will be Queen of the Festival throughout the year.
Easter. Every spring they go out the three fraternities that make up the Easter lumbrerense.
This is without doubt one of the most deeply rooted traditions in the town.
Patron. Are held in early October in honor of the patron saint of Puerto Lumbreras, the Virgen del Rosario.
Major activities include the Fair Noon free concert for all ages and floral offering to the patron.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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