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The Councilor for Education of the Torrevieja City Council, Ricardo Recuero, the director of the Interactive Didactic Museum of Sciences of the Vega Baja (MUDIC) María del Carmen Perea, and María Luisa Molina on behalf of the Ars Creatio Cultural Association, have presented the activities and MEDNIGHT programming, a joint action with Science as a common flag and in which Universities, outreach centers and research centers from Greece, Cyprus, the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia participate.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Sports, Diana Box, accompanied by the project manager, Carlos Brugarolas, visited the comprehensive repair works of the Sports Palace this morning. Some works that are already being executed and that will be fully completed before the month of December 2021, when the Women's Handball World Championship will begin. The total investment of this important action amounts to 5,588,710 euros.

"Sola" is a short made in black and white, of great visual impact and that seeks to provoke emotions, immersing the viewer in an atmosphere of intrigue. It is a work directly influenced by the cinema of the master Hitchcock. The premiere will be attended by the Torrevieja María José Andréu, the main actress in whose performance falls the weight of the work, and the choreographer of the work, David García Marcos. "Sola" is directed by Javier Gallardo and the music created by Alonso Cases.

The Local Government Board has approved this morning the mixed contract for the drafting of the project, supply and construction of adapted and inclusive children's areas in the municipality of Torrevieja.

The Municipal Institute of Culture "Joaquín Chapaprieta" dedicates its next edition of Eras de Cine to the genre of Adventures. Las Eras de la Sal will host the screening of four films on August 30 and 31 and September 1 and 2, at 9:30 p.m., with free admission until full capacity is reached, and can be picked up from 8:00 p.m. the day of the screening at the Eras de la Sal box office.

The Councilor for Culture of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Quesada, and the director of the event and head of Turmalina Films, Lidiana Rodríguez, presented this morning the sixth edition of TORREVIEJA AUDIOVISUAL, the national festival of fiction and animation short films that It will be held at the Municipal Theater on September 3 and 4, at 9:00 p.m., and it returns after five years without being held.

The Councilor for Culture, José Antonio Quesada, together with the director of the Festival, Tatiana Denisova Kaunova, the artistic director, Lev Gelbard, and the cellist, Lana Gruen, have presented this morning the second edition of the festival of classical music and opera "Sol Music Festival Torrevieja" to be held from August 12 to 15 in the chamber hall of the International Auditorium of Torrevieja.

The Department of Quality of urban services, led by the mayor Sandra Sánchez, has to provide the Los Locos beach promenade with a new redevelopment that significantly improves accessibility to the coastline, providing it with pedestrian routes and areas spacious rooms for the enjoyment of citizens and complying with applicable regulations on accessibility in urban areas.

The Mixed Company Aguas del Arco Mediterráneo (AGAMED), has reported on the evolution of water consumption in the city of Torrevieja in the period between June and July 2021, compared to the consumption of 2020 and 2019.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the councilor for Quality of Urban Services, Sandra Sánchez, accompanied by the manager of AGAMED, Jorge Ballesta and the deputy manager, Gemma Cruz, have met this morning with the representatives of the residents of the Torreta Florida urbanization, to inform them of the upcoming start of the rainwater works that are going to be undertaken in this area.

This roundabout has been embellished with a total of 28 flamingos, approximately 2 meters high, with a 10-centimeter relief carved in polystyrene and fiberglass on its exterior finish. A fence of approximately 30 meters in length has also been executed that surrounds the entire base of the monument as a visual of the whole. The total investment has amounted to 18,500 euros.

Last Sunday, coinciding with the inauguration of the International Habaneras and Polyphony Contest, the lighting of the new pergola lighting of this central Torrevieja promenade was carried out. The installation has been carried out on the lower part of the metal beams of the pergola, with a flexible aluminum, lacquered in white, which has inside the led strip with a quantity of 180 LEDs per linear meter, being approximately 600 meters the that have been placed. The chosen led strip produces a linear light effect so that the individual spot of illuminated led is not seen.

This amount has been distributed between nominative grants, with an amount of 160,000 euros and free competition grants, with a total of 24,600 euros.

The image of the many families who have taken the opportunity to take their photos with their cameras or mobile phones in search of that image to remember in this spectacular enclave, which will return to the delight of Torrevieja next October, has been iconic.

On the morning of Monday, July 5, at the Puerto Deportivo Marina Salinas, the Paralympic rowing boat acquired by the Club Náutico Marina Internacional for the rower Juan Luis Moraes Fiego was presented, thanks to the sponsorship of the joint venture AGAMED.

The councilor secretary of the Local Government Board (JGL) of the Torrevieja City Council, Federico Alarcón, has reported that the Government Meeting held this morning has approved the contract file for the maintenance, conservation and repair of public roads of the Torrevieja municipal area, especially those that are part of the traffic road and sidewalks, and also including pedestrian paths and, in general, elements of public domain and use that the PGOU qualifies as such, whether they are urbanized or not, excluding the areas green that in the same way the PGOU qualifies as such, except for those services that are already included in some other maintenance contract (public lighting, traffic lights, road signs etc ...).

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Quality of Urban Services, Sandra Sánchez, have visited this morning together with residents of the urbanization, the construction works of an accessible pedestrian walkway between the nearby cul-de-sac to Joaquín García Sánchez street, at the confluence with the Jardín del Mar III Urbanization, an area known as Doña Inés, due to the obvious need to transit through an area with a significant drop of 1.5 meters.