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The arrival of so many pilgrims contributes to the promotion of local commerce in the municipality.
The Department of Tourism Alguazas City Council took stock in connection with the completion of the Jubilee Year.
Thus the data collected by the Department shows that have passed through the town about 1,500 pilgrims of whom 1,000 have sealed his primer on the various municipal departments such as the Library, City Hall, Municipal Sports Hall and local police.
The visitors were part of groups, walkers, friends, individuals or cyclists.
Of these approximately 500 have stayed in City Hall.
In the said place the City has set up a night's rest area for the pilgrims.
The success of the Jubilee Year in Alguazas is recognized in two ways.
On the one hand because Alguazas marks the end of the third stage of the Way of the Apostle and the other is positive for the township because the arrival of many pilgrims contributes to the promotion of trade in the municipality.
An example is the so-called "Pilgrim's Menu" that many bars and restaurants have been established at your site.
It consisted of breakfast, lunch and dinner at special prices, very cheap, for pilgrims.
The pilgrims have visited landmarks and full of attractive alguaceño municipality, including scenic viewpoint highlights the confluence of the rivers Mula and Segura and the Torre del Obispo and the church of San Onofre.
From arrival at the end of the Jubilee Year, from the Department of Tourism, aims to further promote the Northwest Greenway that will connect the municipalities of Murcia and Caravaca de la Cruz and her works will be completed in the spring.
The Greenway will run over 8 kilometers of the municipality of Alguazas, which begins in the old railway bridge over the River Segura.
Also, the trace of the Milky will run largely by the urban case, which will encourage users to know better the town alguaceño.
Also through the Greenway would boost local tourism and trade because Alguazas is in the first third of the above procedure, and provides a large influx of users.
The greenway will make available to walkers and cyclists a contrast of natural areas.
Also the users have at their disposal a network of shelters in case they need to make a stop on the road.
The shelters are distributed along the route in Alguazas, Campos del Rio, Albudeite, Mula, Bullas, Cehegín and Caravaca de la Cruz.
Hostel
In some cases, what has been done is converting the old stations.
Other accommodations are however new construction.
Several of them will not only offer bed, will also have a cafeteria and restaurant.
In Alguazas will become a railway platform in Housing.
To carry out this action the Ministry of Culture and Tourism allocated a total of 523,000 euros through the Northwest Greenway Consortium, which is part of the municipality.
So the shelter is expected to be inaugurated in April this year.
The building is on a single storey building on existing structures belonging to the old pier Alguazas station.
The project includes a lodge with 12 rooms, which will provide the municipality of between 36 and 48 places of accommodation, a café, toilets and laundry.
With the local police in an old dock station, the hostel is also renovating another building loading dock, space for youth and library are planned for construction, for which the City Council convened in a competition brief of ideas for writing the project, also located at another pier currently unused, which will be annexed to the hostel, plus the sports hall and the municipal swimming pool is under construction has revitalized an entire area was in disuse and is easily accessible from anywhere in the municipality.
Finally another action that the Consistory has undertaken in that area, through the Department of Planning, is putting up some canvas, a micro material to combat the weather in this area where the weekly market is located .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alguazas
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