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The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, signed yesterday the decree for the Tourist Office located in Paseo Vista Alegre to be Collaborating Information Point (PIC) of the Natural Park of Lagunas de La Mata and Torrevieja, within the agreement of collaboration between Turisme Comunitat Valenciana and the Torrevieja City Council for the development of the Tourist Info program, through the maintenance in said network of the tourist information offices of the city.

This morning the Municipal Tourism Council was constituted, chaired by the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, with the appointment of his members.

The ordination of the public use of the Municipal Natural Area "Molino del Agua" carried out in recent years, and a series of additional measures adopted during this season by the Department of the Environment of the Torrevieja City Council (and which had the collaboration of the Service of Wildlife of the Conselleria de Transición Ecológica and the Provincial Coastal Service), have contributed to at least 4 couples installing their nests as of May, on a linear extension of 370 meters of the total beach / dune complex. During the first spawns a total of 9 chickens were born, while in the second spawns there have been 4 more chickens that have managed to get ahead. In short, 13 new plovers were born in the "Molino del Agua" Municipal Natural Area during 2021.

The Torrevieja University Venue opens tomorrow, Wednesday, July 14, at 9:00 am, the summer course "The Pink Lagoon of Torrevieja: potential applications of its microorganisms", which will end on Thursday, July 15.

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 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.

In recent years loggerhead turtles have chosen the beaches of the Valencian Community up to 8 times to lay their eggs, one of them, in the summer of 2015, in Torrevieja. But the attempts have been many more. For example, only in the Maritime District of Torrevieja that ranges from the mouth of the Segura river to El Mojón (municipal terms of Guardamar del Segura, Torrevieja, Orihuela and Pilar de la Horadada), the attempts have been a total of 6, having reached to locate, in the summer of 2018, a newborn turtle. Two of these attempts occurred last year 2020 on the Orihuela coast, although neither of them were successful.