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The Torrevieja Venue will host this Thursday, November 25, the second conference of the "Dialogues in the Territory" Cycle organized by the University of Alicante at its university venues. Specifically, this appointment will take place at the Torrevieja Headquarters, located in the "Virgen del Carmen" Cultural Center at 7:00 p.m., with the conference "From the Torrevieja Lagoon to industry and medicine", by Rosa Mª Martínez Espinosa, professor of the Department of Agrochemistry and Biochemistry of the University of Alicante, with the presentation by Ricardo Recuero, Councilor for Innovation of the Torrevieja City Council.

The Youth Council of the Torrevieja City Council presents the seventh edition of the popular Gymkhanica, under the slogan "We do not lose charamitaso". It is an activity that is part of the Patron Saint Festivities 2021, which is aimed at young people between the ages of 14 and 30, and which will be held on Saturday, December 4, departing from the Youth Information and Animation Center (CIAJ) .

The traditional Flower Offering that will take place on December 4 and the Magna Procession on December 8 is recovered, respecting security measures

Next Saturday, November 20, the Gala of Proclamation and Coronation of the Queen of Salt and her Ladies of Honor will take place, which will be organized by the Party Department of the Torrevieja City Council. It will be at eight o'clock in the afternoon at the Municipal Theater when this act begins prior to the celebration of the Patron Saint Festivities in honor of La Purísima Concepción, whose programming will be made public on Monday the 15th. At that event, the current Queen of La Sal, Raquel Tévar Braña and her Bridesmaids, María Cases Alarcón and Cristy Guamán Correa, will give up the witness that began in 1963 in the incoming court. The confirmed candidates are Marta Mesa Vizcaino, Juncal Gómez Rivero and Victoria Magoñ Rodríguez. From this shortlist will come the new Queen of Salt and her Ladies after the day of coexistence that they held last Sunday with the jury. The next meeting with the members of the aforementioned jury will be next Wednesday the 17th and three days later the result of the election will be known.

From the celebration of this day the juries will be able to have a more direct knowledge with the applicants to be the first representatives of the Torrevieja festivities. His election and coronation, as has been customary for a few years, will occur at the dawn of the celebration of new patron saint festivities in honor of La Purísima Concepción.

The Torrevieja carnival, which was declared of Autonomous Tourist Interest last May, will return to the streets of Torrevieja next year after a stoppage during this 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The mayor of Fiestas has wanted to encourage all the comparsas and carnivals to be part of this multi-colored festival that runs through the streets of Torrevieja during the month of February. In the words of the president of the association "this is the starting gun for carnival 2022, which we hope we can do with all normality, since everything is already prepared for its celebration."

The councils of Local Police, Volunteering and NGOs, Sports and Commerce of the Torrevieja City Council, in collaboration with the Association of Small and Medium Traders (APYMECO), report on the activities that will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, September 22, on the occasion of the celebration of the European Mobility Week.

The Torrevieja City Council Party Department has prepared a special program for the celebrations in honor of the patron saint of Torrelamata, the Virgen del Rosario, which will begin on September 28.

The Laguna Rosa has been used for the extraction of salt and, more recently, a tourist use of the immediate surroundings has begun. However, uses such as hydrotherapeutic, cosmetic and biotechnological have not been explored to date Diversifying the Torrevieja economy was one of the conclusions of the Torrevieja Strategic Tourism Plan, which points out the opportunity to work on endogenous resources that provide Torrevieja with differentiating elements and constitute competitive advantages to attract entrepreneurial talent and generate qualified employment The Torrevieja City Council has commissioned the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá (FGUA) to carry out a technical-legal study on the viability of these new uses

Torrevieja will host this next Saturday, August 28, at midnight, a great pyrotechnic show within the “Torna la llum” program of the Alicante Provincial Council, in support of this traditional and deep-rooted productive sector of festivals throughout the city. Valencian Community. The Torrevieja City Council Party Department has managed the firing of this important fireworks display, which will contain some very eye-catching water sections. As a whole, the show will also be a festive attraction for all citizens and, especially, for all those who spend their vacations these days in Torrevieja.

The Department of Festivities of the Torrevieja City Council has presented the bases with which the process for the election of the new Queen of Salt and her Ladies of Honor begins. It does so after having extended, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for one year the current Queen and Samas 2019/2020, Raquel Tévar, María Cases and Cristy Guamán, respectively.

The mayor of Fiestas has highlighted that "after the Torrevieja carnival has celebrated the recent declaration of a festival of Autonomous Tourist Interest of the Valencian Community, it is intended to offer a sample of our parties in summer for Torrevieja residents and for all visitors who are days they share their vacations in our city ”.

It will be next Sunday, August 1, and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the organization has been forced to suppress the programming of all events that favored the largest concentration of the public, such as dances, gift raffles and the procession through the streets of the Plaza del Calvario area.

This first edition aims to mobilize the entire city and tourists with two weeks of activities in different spaces and outdoor events to recover the experience of live music and controlled leisure activities