El Mirador del Huerto Mateo, a new park for Alhaurin el Grande.

Yesterday saw the inauguration of this new public facility, whose budget was 300,000 euros, co-funded by the City Council and the Ministry of Tourism.

Yesterday, Sunday, 6 April, the mayor of Alhaurín el Grande, Juan Martin and his government team, inaugurated a new park, the Mirador del Huerto Mateo, where hundreds of citizens and associations came to enjoy this important event.

The project, whose total budget amounts to 300,000 euros, has been funded by the City of Alhaurín el Grande and the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Sport.

The panoramic viewpoint of Huerto Mateo is located in the historical centre, a plot of 2,500 m2, located between calles Zape, Nazareth and Ascensión. The project has two platforms at different levels from where spectacular views of the Guadalhorce Valley can be enjoyed. The park has a children's play area, three fitness equipment, specifically for older people, a pergola and the whole garden is surrounded by trees and shade. The area has acquired new car parks, street lighting and street furniture as well as automatic irrigation and drainage.

The Councillor for Works, Josefa Brescia, thanked all the citizens during their collaboration of the works and stressed the importance of having a green area in Alhaurín el Grande, and especially in the Old Historic area and in an area that was abandoned and thus has been recovered for the enjoyment of citizens. "

Mayor Juan Martin for his part recalled that "are almost 8 years of management as mayor and in that time has made a firm commitment to the rational and sustainable urban growth, which today shows Alhaurín as an example to follow, and a good example is not only the parks in new areas but restoration and improvement of older parts in which at the time were not implemented in these facilities, as is the case." The edil highlighted as the main virtue of this new park, which is one of the most important assets of the municipality, landscape, as it has created a space of solidarity and coexistence for enjoyment for young and old alike, forming a privileged enclave and a spectacular vantage point from which commands one of the most spectacular views the Guadalhorce Valley. "

The governor recalled that "many actions have been undertaken in recent years in the vicinity of this area, as works in the chapel del Cristo de las Agonías, Plaza del Convento, Huerto los frailes, Calle Greco, Calles de la urbanización Huerto Mateo, Aparcamiento de la Huerta de Rueda and Calle Manzanares, Huerto de los Frailes, Calle Convento fase I and II and Parque de la Paz", and announced that work would begin soon on Calle Calvario, Calle Zape, Callejoncillo, Calle Piedras, and Calle Convento III fase.

"Recently, we opened the Park Huertas Altas, and soon after Park del Palomar, expanding the fairground Enclosure and Cuesta March, and will continue with the expansion of the Parque de la Paz, Parque del Berrazal (junto a calle Iglesia), Parque Huerto del Jorobado and In very advanced project el Parque del Centro, Parque de Calle Molinos and Another united park al Colegio Salvador González Cantos, a total of eight parks under construction or whose works will begin very soon, and will be ready in this legislature ".

Note that access to Mirador Huerto de Mateo is done through steep streets of irregular layout, in the vicinity of the Consistorial house retaining the traditional architecture of the town; well within a radius of two-minutes walk are important assets such as Fuente Lucena, la Casa Consistorial and las Cuevas del Convento and the chapel de la Santa Vera Cruz, which this project enriches filled with core elements of great historical and tourist attractions.

Alhaurin el Grande, April 7, 2008