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Calendar – Fiestas in August – Dolores Horse Fair – Huerta in Los Alcazares – Roman Orgies – Tomato festival – Freezing in the sun – Pinosa marble – Callosa and San Roque – Bigastro gives it out for their patron – Faces of Torrevieja – November celebration – Paseando – Fish Farm Project – Fate of Food – Churros – A taste of college…cake – Spanish cookery chocolate – Protection Civil – Cinema flashback exhibition – Charity bits – Vertigo release – Whats On - Round Spain on a bike aormi@icloud.com

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Thanks to the new Torrevieja town council for relighting the lights along the Paseo Vista Alegre and the nearby seafront with the artificial swimming pool areas also lit up

Every year August is one of the most packed months, not only for fiestas but for exhibitions, expositions, fairs, beauty queens etc. etc. There are over 400 festivals held in the Valencia area during this month. The 15th August is a national feastday and bank holiday, and nearly every town has its own celebrations; in Madrid the day is celebrated as the feast of the Virgen de la Paloma with traditional Madrid dress for men and women the rule of the day.

This year Torrevieja has re-introduced its wonderful Summer Carnival Parade on 16th August from Virgen del Carmen CC to the Eras de Sal zone.

The 2nd Carnaval Festival is on 17 August in the Eras de la Sal (see poster) 1st to 4th August and again the from the 6th to 8th The VII International Festival of aormi@icloud.com

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Young Orchestras in Torrevieja Auditorium.

3rd August Summertime Concert by the Union Musical Torrevejense band in the Virgen del Carmen centre at 20.30 playing well known music.

Please contact tourist offices for up-dates on fiestas as programmes are not normally issued until the days prior to any event.

This month is full of festivals and fiestas. Some of the main ones are held in Elche and Orihuela.

returned procession.

1 - 8th Aug. 2nd- 6th 2 - 6th Aug. 3 - 10th

1st - 25th A s p e holds fiestas almost every day. On the 3rd there is a romería carrying the image of the Virgen de las Nieves which is again on the 14th . another main day is on the 5th with a (See 10th) Patronal fiestas in Pinoso.

Patronal fiestas in Els Poblet.

Patronal fiestas in Xaló.

Patronal fiestas in Murla. (see 7th) 5 - 9th Moors & Christians in Elche.

On odd ending years fiestas in Hondón de las Nieves (2019) 5 - 6th Main fiestas of Calpe.

6th Aug. Principal fiestas of Mutxamel.

7th Aug. Fiesta dels Fadrins in Murla.

7th Aug on the weekend nearest to this date a romería is held in Relleu.

On the first weekend of the month the Fiestas of the Virgen de la Paz are held in San Fulgencio. In La Marina urbanisation.

8th Aug. Fiestas of San Domingo held in

Beniarbeig.

First weekend of the month youngsters of Penàguila celebrate the Fadrins fiesta with a romería.

Altea holds the fiesta of San Roque.

Beniardá has pàtronal fiestas until the following Monday or Tuesday.

Turban holds patronal fiestas Friday to Monday.

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First week Benidoleig has patronal fiestas in honour of Santa Barbara.

First or second Sunday Vall d Ébo has patronal fiestas.

9 - 15th Parcent holds fiestas in honour of San Lorenzo.

13th the Tears of San Lorenzo can be seen in the sky 10th Aug. We e k e n d nearest to this date San Lorenzo fiestas held in Altea, Busto, Benimantell and Benillup.

10 - 13th Moors & Christians in Aspe.

10 - 18th Novelda celebrates San Roque.

11 - 15th 11 - 16th 12 - 15th

12 - 16th 12 - 17th

Banyeres de Mariola fiestas in Cope district.

Patronal fiestas in honor of the Virgen del Rosario, San Isidro and San Roque held in El Verger.

Moors & Christians in Cocentaina.

Patronal fiestas in Benichembla.

Local fiesta in Altoza (Alacant).

Moors & Christian fiestas in Callosa de Segura.

Bigastro holds patronal fiestas of San Joaquín.

The second week of August (including 15th) patronal fiestas at Ráfol de Almunia.

Second weekend beach fiestas of Albir.

Second Sunday patronal fiestas of La Vall d’Alcalà.

Patronal fiesta in Sagra.

In Xixona dance festival with dances dating from XVII century.

Summer festival in Benialí (Vall de Gallinera).

During the first two weeks Elche celebrates the Fiesta de los Pobladores.

Fiestas in Ondara in the Cristo district, include blessing of bread at Mass, procession and fireworks with a slice of coca cake for 2,000 people.

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13th Aug.

In Elche between 23.15 and 00.00 h., the Nit de l’Albà a spectacular firework display whose origins go back to XVII century.

13 - 16th

Moors & Christians in Dénia.

Fiestas in Castalla.

14th Aug. La Nit de l’Olla introduces the Moors & Christians fiestas in Benilloba.

14 - 18th Patronal fiesta in Guadalest.

Polop fiestas of Porrat de Sant Roc. La Nucía celebrates patronal fiestas.

Patronal fiestas in honour of the Virgen de la Cueva Santa in Beniarrés.

Principal fiestas of Castel de Castells.

Summer fiestas begin in Montforte del Cid. Weekend prior to 15th the fiesta of the Virgen de Africa is held in Senija.

14 - 22 Summer Fair in Orihuela.

14 - 15th Representation of the Mystery Play in Elche.

15th Aug.

Elche has a famous Mystery Play

La Torre de les Macanes has unique traditional fiestas.

Sax celebrates la Fiesta de la Virgen de la Asunción.

In Senija the Fiestas de la Mare de Dèu d’Agost are held.

Pilar de la Horadada have special celebrations.

Weekend after the 15th fiestas in Beniferri.

15 - 20th Main fiestas at Llíber. aormi@icloud.com

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18 - 23rd Patronal fiestas in Benasau.

20th Aug. Fiestas in honour of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Benimaurell Vall de Laguart) The weekend nearest to this date are the fiestas in Forna.

20 - 21 A l c o y holds fiestas of La Virgen de los Lirios.

21st - 26th Aug. Moors & Christians in El Camp de Mirra 22nd Aug. Summer fiestas of Alacant.

Third weekend of August Xixona holds 3-day fiestas with Moors & Christians.

(24/25th)) Summer festival begins in Patró (Vall de Gallinera).

Between the 3rd and 4th Saturdays of the month the Patronal fiestas in Bolulla.

The third week sees the patronal celebrations in Benimasot.

23 - 26th Moors & Christians march in the José Antonio district of Alacant.

24 - 26th Aug. Patronal fiestas in Almudaina.

24th August Xixona holds the fiesta of El Porrt de la Candelaria.

Patronal fiestas of Finestrat on nearest weekend to this date.

28 - 30 Aug. Patronal fiestas in Xirles (Polop) 28 - 31 Aug. Patronal fiestas in Alcocer de Planes.

30th Aug. - 8th September Virgen de Loreto fiestas at Xàbia.

31st Aug. Jávea fiestas of the Virgen de los Angeles.

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Dolores Farm Fayre

Start of Castalla Moors & Christian fiestas with the Nit de l’Olla music and fireworks .

31st Aug.

Dolores is a neighbouring town of Torrevieja in the Vega Baja area. The annual Farm Fayre held in Dolores draws thousands of people, many being attracted by the horses and the many equestrian competitions held during the week. It was stopped for one year until it was decided that the town warranted its own exhibition area.

In 2008 the XVII Livestock Fair will be held in better surroundings, as the fair ground will be extended. Here there is an opportunity to see some of the best horses in the country and enjoy the various horse competitions from one-year old mares to mature equestrian participants.

Several stalls sell equipment and souvenirs – carriages, outdoor clothing, and all the fun food of the fair including toffee apples and candy floss.

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competition that is extremely popular with a wide variety of dogs participating to the shouts of their owners.

Possibly one of the most traditional events is the donkey r a c e w h e n youngsters are shouted at by their granddads on what to do next and finish a winner.

Not that being a winner is important as every rider gets a traditional turkey prize from the town hall.

The typical cuisine of Dolores takes advantage of the fresh vegetables available in the area (artichokes, beans), and also includes plenty of meat and seafood. The most typical dish is "cocido con pelotas", which includes meatballs and potato and chickpea stew.

There are also many fresh fruits such as melons, watermelons, oranges, and apricots.

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Los Alcazares Huerta

by Dave Stewart

An open-air market is held every Friday morning where the local produce is sold.Make a date for the first week of August and enjoy yet another aspect of Spain’s agricultural culture.

Just south of Torrevieja is the old town of Los Alcázares in the Murcia Region . Like many towns in Spain the inhabitants are gradually becoming aware of the historical culture of their town as more and more foreigners come to live there and look for some local history.

Each year, since 1972, a tradition has grown up whereby farmers, and those who work on the land around, have a get-together and this has developed into a grand feria each year between 15th and 30th August. The Semana de la Huerta includes aormi@icloud.com

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traditional representations, costumes and folklore music and dancing. A barraca is built in the fair area and traditional food from the region is served, which includes a lot of vegetable and fish dishes.

An alcรกzar is an arabic word for a castle or fortress or even just a keep; in nautical terms it means the quarter-deck. In Los Alcรกzares there are still some remains of the original alcรกzar built in the XII century when the town was known as Al Qasr or AlKazar. The Arabs built a small port to hold their fishing fleet, which still exists.

Long before this period the Greeks and Phoenicians used the area which was rich in fish. When the Romans arrived they used the district as a resting zone for troops and many of the richer Romans built villas making use of the mineral rich warm waters of the Mar Menor for spas, often using a clay tube system of heating the water and running it into special baths. Using the same system, but running the pipes under the hearth of the fire, the Romans also had a central heating system that was in use in colder climes such as Germany and Britain. More modern spas still function in the town.

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Some statues from Los Alcázares can be seen in the Museo Arqueológico de Murcia. Los Alcazares was used as a location for the 2008 movie of Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel The Garden of Eden, starring Jack Huston, Richard E. Grant and Mena Suvari.

Fortuna is in the Murcian Region located 240 metres above sea level. It is an appropriate name as Lady Fortune does smile on this small town bathed in the sun in a dry climate. The thermal waters gushed out of the warm mineral springs in La Cueva Negra and the Baños de Fortuna and were sought after by the early Ibeians and the Romans who used the area as a resting zone aormi@icloud.com

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for weary soldiers. After the February Carnival and the processions of Semana Santa, the modern “Romans” have a parade to the Cueva Negra to re-enact some of the lascivious rites of the Romans as they splashed in the baths there.

This is a good example of the Christians taking over pagan rituals, in this instance the 15th August, the feast of the Assumption of the Virgen Mary into heaven. In Fortuna both ancient civilizations are recalled in the annual fiestas. In these “Fiestas de Sodales”, the parades are not only a tourist attraction, but an opportunity to know some of the history of Fortuna. A parade of Iberian warriors and files of Roman legionaires march to the sound of music, several of them on horseback. The principal parade takes place on the 15th August at 19.00. Here fun is combined with culture in a revival of ancient Rome; a Rome that made good use of the curative powers of the thermal baths of Fortuna’s springs to bathe and cleanse the ills of both body and soul.

At the end of the night a funeral pyre is lit followed by a fish festival of the Sardinala Popular.

Fiestas take place from 10th to 15th August beginning with a spectacular scene of the Iberians and the arrival of the Romans, attracted by the waters of life. During this the scantily clad, flower-bedecked “Water Nymphs” are crowned. These lovely ladies are escorted by fierce, gaudily painted Iberians or strutting, toga wearing, Romans.

There is a Roman market in the town centre and at night there is a Roman dinner in the balneario Romano, where the group of Sodales recline on low benches, wearing typical Roman costumes.

On another day the children and youngsters take pride of place in their own parade grouped round the various Roman standard bearers, with banners dedicated to diverse Roman gods. Among the fun it is possible to enjoy games of that era.

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Roll up, roll up and throw tomatoes

by Dave Stewart

Probably after the bull runs of Pamplona the most famous international fiestas is that of the Tomatin in BuĂąol.

Each year 60,000 people crush into the small town of BuĂąol swelling its normal 10,000 inhabitants to participate in the annual battle of tomatoes. This fiesta has now received worldwide publicity and each year attracts more and more visitors willing to brave the Trituran, a barrage of tomatoes thrown at everyone in sight for one hour.

120 tons of tomatoes, carried on seven open lorries manned by local men, proceed slowly through the designated narrow streets and those on board chuck the fruit at anyone they can see, so that, eventually, the streets resemble a giant tomato ketchup spread over all the buildings and anyone in the way. Although at street level the houses and shops are barricaded sometimes people on the balconies above have tomatoes thrown at them, which can end up spattered against their salon walls.

Once the tomatoes are used up the hosepipes are turned on the battlefield to wash everything away and the battle of the T-shirts commences as men and women take off their red spattered shirts (and shoes) and throw them at each other, often causing bodily damage.

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Individual tickets now for sale // Entradas individuales ya a la venta // https:// t.co/qtXv2Etogl 28 de agosto, de 11:00h a 12:00h @rizigoesplaces #tomatina #tomatinaoficial #buñol #valencia #visitvalencia #latomatina #tomatofight #foodfight #fiesta #spain The theme "Everything is the same color" was released in 2008, as the soundtrack of a video clip made by Darío Ferrer and that included images of Buñol's tomatina that year. Subsequently, the song was included in the second album of the group buñolense, entitled "Out of control."

The subject had great repercussion both on the internet and in the town. It was this popularity that pushed the town hall to choose it as the best song to represent the tomatina, since this theme helps spread the popular festival par excellence of the municipality as never before. The members of the group were not expected to be so successful. In fact, before composing it, they saw it difficult to carry it out, since they did not want to make a typical song that talked about the tomatina or named the tomato, so they decided to focus on the feelings that the party caused them.

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Freezing in summer I guess one of the things most people enjoy in summertime is a fancy ice cream This is possible with modern machinery and fresh fruit and other products. So it may be extremely hot but it has its advantages as an excuse for a ice cream.

We take so much for granted these days with electricity, fridge and freezes or air conditioning, which help to keep us cool and all our food.

Ice was needed to keep the fish fresh and an ice factory was built in Torrevieja near the sea.

Before that ice was hacked out of ice wells in Murcia mountains and in huge blocks attached to burros and brought down to Torrevieja. with the ice factory it became easier and housewives would go along and get some to keep their food cold and fresh. Ice as also aormi@icloud.com Torrevieja Outlook !16

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In a 11th July, 1955, banda (a local order from the Mayor) Arturo Gomez ordered that there should be less noise produced by radios, music, singing, car horns, car exhausts from ten in the evening to seven in the morning.

Likewise daytime noise from “the cries of ice cream vendors and bars should not be so loud as to bother neighbours” and there were corresponding fines for offenders.

In the past people had problems conserving food using salt or drying it or trying to keep it cold.

Former ice factory supplied ice for the fishing fleet, ice cream making and housewives as there were no fridges.

In summertime the roof space was used as Theatre and cinema. Today it is a listed building.

A hundred years ago, with the industrial revolution it became possible to develop an ice industry. This meant that the snow deposits or wells fell into disuse and were abandoned.

A good example of of these is the Cava Gran that stopped being used and its owner agreed to the dismantling of its roof for the recycling of certain construction materials.

We know that bricks, tiles, ashlars and wooden structural elements, coming from the cellar, were reused in repairs of the convent of Franciscans, on the roof of the Sanctuary of Agres and in a house in the town (Vicedo Martínez and Ramírez Gosálvez, 2004) .

After the dismantling of the tile roof, the magnificent arched structure that supported it was exposed, and the Cava Gran was acquired by the other name by which it is known, Cava Arquejada.

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Photography has given us invaluable information in recent times, because through a snapshot taken possibly in the 1920s, we can know exactly how the Gran de Agres cava was covered.

La Cava Gran is a protected cultural asset. It is classified as a Property of Local Relevance by the Fifth Additional Provision of Law 5/2007, of February 9, of the Generalitat Valenciana.

The Cava Gran was built for the storage and conservation of snow. It was configured as a covered well, partially excavated in the rock and embedded in a slope of the summits of the Sierra de Mariola with slope to the southeast.

This availability of ice led to the introduction of an ice cream industry in the area, in Jijona especially.

The reservoir tank has an inverted frustoconical volume, with a circular section in the interior and a hexagonal façade on the upper part. The structure of its roof is a pointed ribbed vault, formed by six semi-arches of ashlar masonry. It is topped by a pinnacle of more than three tons of weight.

Acquired by the Provincial Delegation of Alicante in December 2008 for the amount of € 152,000, since 2010 various works have been developed for its value. aormi@icloud.com

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A marble monument from Pinosa identifies the link with Torrevieja

Pinosa - marble town

by Pat Hynd

During the first nine or ten days of August Torrevieja’s salt water link town, Pinoso, celebrates the patronal fiestas in honour of la Virgen del Remedio. This is an old fiesta, but, yet again, the original image of the Virgen was destroyed in the Civil War and the present statue is the work of sculptor Enrique Bellido. The statue has a crown with 12 stars and a dove with open wings. It is normally in the church of San Pedro Apóstol but is brought out into the light of day for Semana Santa, the May processions and during these patronal fiestas.

Among events is the annual Floral Offering when the women and young girls wear colourful traditional costumes; there is a fun parade of carriages and carts; a ‘suelto de vaquillas’ where citizens and visitors can dodge the young bulls if that is their thing; the barracas are where people eat, drink, dance and generally enjoy themselves on the evenings of the fiestas with live music supplied by traditional and modern groups and singers. Pinoso produces marble as one of its industries, but there is also aormi@icloud.com

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a n underground channel that Salt mine pumps salt water to To r r e v i e j a lagoon and helps in the local salt industry. It is a quiet town whose days are marked by the chimes of the clock in the tower.

This clock has a r a r e mechanism constructed

by Antonio Canseco inn 1889 and now maintained by local watchmaker Angel jara. It is possible to climb to the top of the tower and view the surrounding town and countryside.

Another interesting building is the San Pedro church where the image of the Virgen del Remedio is kept and used in the annual patronal fiestas from 1 to 8 August. There is also a sanctuary dedicated to the Virgen del Rosario which is the scene of an annual pilgrimage . Another visit can be to the Casa del Vino, which offers information about the area’s wine production, and there are various bodegas where the wines can be sampled and bought.

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Another fiesta celebrated in several places is that of San Roque: a procession is held in the Aceequion district of Torrevieja where the church of San Roque is located. He is always associated with a dog as the tale is that his life was saved by a sheepdog.

San Roque in Callosa del Segura San Roque is one of the best-loved fiestas in the Vega Baja area. It has special significance in the hearts of the people of Callosa de Segura where San Roque is the town’s patron saint. The sanctuary dedicated to San Roque was built in the hills in 1759, built, according to tradition, as a result of when the saint appeared in 1409 to a maimed shepherd whom he cured. Since 1409 two sanctuaries have been built over the intervening years. The Saint Roque Hermitage which stands high above the town as if guarding it; above the hermitage is the castle of Callosa. On the 16th of this month a pilgrimage takes place with acts such as the Floral Offering or the Subida del Farolico take place. The first Mass of the day takes place around 4.00 am in the sanctuary.

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NÂş 066 August 2019 But before the 16th the preceding week is full of festivities. These fiestas are the main ones of the year for the town and central are the Moors and Christians parades. These begin on the 13th with four comparsas of Christians and two of Moors. The comparsas collaborate in other events throughout the year: The Medio AĂąo Festero and in

May the medieval market.

The Moors and Christians Festivities began in Callosa de Segura in 1977 and, since its inception, it has been characterized as a party that recalls the time of the Reconquest, with the commemoration and organization of parades in which The participants are divided into two sides, Moors and Christians, dressed according to the medieval era of each culture. Each side consists of groups and rows.The Saracens group had a special march composed for their 25th anniversary last year. The 14th is dedicated to the multicolour procession with groups such as the Pensioners taking part. There are cycling competitions and football contests, with musical interventions each day and evening. The queen of these fiestas is known as la Maja; the outgoing Maja is 18-year-old Vanesa Manresa, who has represented the town on many occasions, recently at the San Juan Hogueras. There are events for old and young and teenagers have their own VII CaĂąamo Rock festival by local bands.

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Bigastro celebrate their patron San Joaquin

by Dave Stewart

Bigastro is another Vega Baja town which celebrates their patron saint, San Joaquín, the grandfather of Jesus and father of Mary. The week preceding the 16th August is full of events, including a Cena Popular organised by the women featuring typical dishes of the area. A cycle race means reaching for the sky to get a prize. Every morning begins at eight o’clock with the Charamita in the streets. In the evenings there are various events such as a carnival parade. On the Saturday at midday there is a carnival parade for the children.

The Flower Offering is held on the 14th with an open air Mass followed by a concert. Please contact the local tourist office for further information.

15th August a national holiday The Assumption, body and soul, of Mary the Virgin Mother of Jesus is a national holiday in Spain and nearly every small village and large town will have some form of festival and entertainment programme.

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Faces of Torrevieja inhabitants over the years

by Andy Ormiston

The first families (687) registered in the Torrevieja church books make interesting reading.

In the 36 years between 1789 and 1825, most of the families registered in the register of the church of Torrevieja came from the nearby towns of the province of Alicante, mainly from San Miguel de Salinas 186 people, from Guardamar 128, from La Mata 112, of San Javier 57, of Orihuela 44, of Rojales 32, of Benejuzar 10 and of other nearby towns of the towns of Murcia, being very few those coming from other provinces. Even then there were foreigners- 23 came from Genoa, 2 from Tunisia, 1 from Sardinia and 1 from Ireland. Many of today’s Torrevejenses trace their family trees to those from Genoa especially.

As for professions most were day laborers and dependent on the work of the Salinas, but included sailors and farmers. There were various crafts such as shoemakers, barbers, millers, shopkeepers, shepherds, carters, muleteers, bakers, blacksmiths, caulkers, masons, teachers, military infantry and artillery of the towers, tailors, traffickers, there was a consul and others.

In the 11 years comprised between the year 1789 and 1800 in Torrevieja 130 children were born, whose parents came from other places, except one whose parents were from La Mata; plus two children whose fathers were from La Mata and their mothers from another place, and nine children whose mothers were originally from La Mata and their parents from another place.

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But because so many thousands of people, for their own reasons, did not want to sign on the census register at the Town Hall, the actual census figures of citizens has always been lower than the actual figure of the number of people living in Torrevieja, even though they use the common services and facilities. This significant increase in Torrevieja’s stature was notable in the middle of 2001 when Torrevieja, having already been considered important enough to have four appointed judicial courts, was granted permission for a further two: at this time Orihuela counted with 149.197 registered inhabitants and Torrevieja with 66.094, although in both instances there was almost 100,000 who for various reasons were unregistered.

By early 2004 there were seven courts functioning in Torrevieja and plans to enlarge the existing court buildings. In 1967 the town was so busy that the main AlicanteCartagena road of the N332 was altered to go through calle Diego Ramirez and Villa Madrid then into Avenida Gregorio Marañon to avoid the congestion in the actual town centre where the bus office was located in calle Maria Parodi.

In 1968 the tallest building of 11 storeys was built and the former football pitch at San Esteban had given way to the present blocks of flats. This was outdone in June the following year when the 15 storey “La Paz” apartment block was completed, thus changing the skyline of Torrevieja for ever. The census in this year numbered 12,000 inhabitants.

The first main urbanization was Los Balcones started in May 1970 with the intention that it would be the most prestigious residential urbanization in Europe and was initially planned to house 2,000 Polish families. A Polish businessman arranged for families to buy property, some of them Polish Jew survivors of the war. Some of the streets initially bore testimony to the Polish influx, such as calle Varsovia (Warsaw) but were changed later, which is a pity, as the name is a Witness to the horrors of the ghettoes and ill-treatment of their Jewish inhabitants.

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Many Poles did come and many still remain, but their presence has not really been felt in the town although in 2000 a Spanish speaking Polish priest arrived and attended to the Poles religious’ requirements. These religious necessities were fully met when the new parish of SS Peter and Paul was given into the care of Polish priests, and the church has a side chapel dedicated for the Ukranian Orthodox Church (not well thought out by Spanish Church authorities considering the history of both countries).

By 1981 there were 6,000 houses paying local taxes. Other large urbanisation areas quickly followed as companies such as Torreblanca, Masa, Eurochoice, Atlas International, Villamartin or Eurosol quickly developed marketing techniques to bring people to Spain on short three-day inspection trips with diverse property offers of all-in packages of furniture, satellite television etc.

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Another housing boom was experienced in the early part of the new millennium. By the beginning of 2004 house prices had risen by 157% in the last decade. However, in November 2007 the prices had not only stopped increasing, but showed a big drop in resale market, the average price being 2,148 euros per square metre in Alicante which was the national average. One in ten Spanish properties was in a vacation zone and cost 10% more than in most other parts of Spain. In the holiday areas 10% of housing belonged to foreigners (377.100) with United Kingdom taking a 16.3% of that figure, followed by Germany (10.1%), France (3.8%) and Italy (3.2%). In 2005 the municipal census in Spain recognised that 47,535 Brits had signed on in town halls in that year, bringing the total to 274,722 citizens from the United Kingdom living fulltime in Spain. In the Alicante province over half of the population in the following towns were foreigners: Rojales, Teuleda, Calpe, L’Alfàs del Pi, Jávea and Torrevieja. For example in Rojales 56.8% of the inhabitants came from European Union countries. The 2005 statistics show that there were 44,708,964 inhabitants in Spain of which 4,144,166 (9.3%) were of foreign origins. The majority of new immigrants in 2005 came from Rumania (89,793), and Morocco (51,718) making a total of 563,012 Moroccans in Spain.

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Although there are 13,304 English speakers registered this number would increase by people of other countries who use it as a second language. Bearing this in mind, after 2007 elections many official documents from the town hall were in both Spanish and English.

When Pedro Mateo first became the Mayor in 1988, Torrevieja had 16,000 registered inhabitants and 30,000 houses. At the turn of the century there were almost 100,000 inhabitants registered, although there are thousands more who choose not to do so, and well over 100,000 houses.

Torrevieja is considered to be the fifth most important town in the Valencian Communidad and the third largest in the Alicante Province.

There are over a million people staying in the town during the peak summer period. In July 2006 the Valencian Regional Parliament recognized Torrevieja as warranting the title of city granting the council more self-autonomy.

This also meant more funding from regional and central government. As such Torrevieja is the principal town in the Vega Baja area joining larger cities such as Valencia, Alicante, Elche and Castellon in this unique municipal category.

One year later the census figures showed 101,600 inhabitants.

In 2003 Spain was the country with the highest number of immigrants in the European community with 15.5 per 1,000 citizens. Including new born babies and deaths the country’s population increased by 53,000 inhabitants, but once the immigration figure is added this shows an overall population increase of 647,000 inhabitants, bringing the country’s total to 42,197,900 which means almost half a million immigrants during the year.

The Valencian Region statistics showed that there were over 300,000 residents, who were unregistered on municipal census rolls, foreigners representing a whopping 13.4% of the overall population. The majority of illegals were Moroccans, Ecuadorians and Rumanians. In the whole of Spain there were 3.884,600 immigrants registered officially of whom 2.738,932 were affiliated to the Social Security system.

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A problem was and is that there are so many foreign illegal workers or “sin papeles”. Some of these borrowed the papers of compatriots and used them to obtain working contracts and, therefore, the right to stay in Spain. In early 2007 a judge ruled that it was not a crime for those who obtained jobs by using false credentials.

TORREVIEJA today has 85,231 registered citizens of which 50,111 are of Spanish origin and 35,120 from abroad.

Russians (4023) and Ukrainians significantly increased their presence in a municipal register with citizens from 117 countries Citizens from the United Kingdom (4806) continue to be the foreign residents with the greatest presence in the municipal census, but with old age or Brexit fears many have returned to U.K. Torrevieja continues to be the third largest city and number of inhabitants of the province of Alicante and the fifth of the Valencian Community, only behind the three provincial capitals (Valencia, Alicante and Castellón) and Elche. Several foreign nationalities have expanded the cultural program of Torrevieja with their own input. encouraging better integration.

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The increase in residents from Russia, which ranks as the second country with the highest number of registered in the town (4806), followed by Ukraine (3053). After the two countries of the former USSR, there is the more than stable and historic Moroccan population, with 2,225 registered, followed by Colombians (1703), Bulgarians (1613), Romanians (1583), Swedes (1182), Belgians (997) , Germans (977), Italians (964), Chinese (958), Algerians (747), Norwegians (693), Brazilians (588), Finns (551), Poles (515), French (469) and Lithuanians (460) . It should be noted that the first 15 countries reflected in the Torrevieja census highlight the growth - in addition to the aforementioned Russians and Ukrainians - of citizens of Scandinavian origin (Sweden, Norway and Finland) and Belgians.

Of course, we also have many other countries represented in the Municipal Register, among which are citizens of Cuba, India, Switzerland, Hungary Belarus, Algeria, Senegal, Denmark, Paraguay, Nigeria, Peru, El Salvador, Austria, Bolivia, Pakistan, United States of America, Cape Verde, Mexico, Guinea, Egypt, Nepal, Philippines, Honduras, Israel, Bangladesh, Burkina Fasso, Thailand, Costa Rica, Australia, Japan, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jordan, Mauritius, Guatemala , Cyprus, Malta, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Vietnam, Sri-Lanka, Malaysia, Gabon, aormi@icloud.com

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Gambia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kirgvistan.

As for the population registered in Torrevieja according to their age, the number of children under 20 years old amounts to 15,444. Likewise, the number of Torreviejense between 20 and 40 years old amounts to 19,193; from 40 to 60 years are 25 849 registered; from 60 to 80 years, a total of 19 821; and from 80 to 100 years, the number of registered persons is 4799; while the residents in Torrevieja with 100 or more years of age amount to 25, of which 7 are men and 18 women. Current data from the Municipal Register that the number of people over 60 years exceeds 24 600 inhabitants.

This is on par with the population census at the level of 2005 President Francisco Camps of the Valencian region stated, “that to be a Torrevejenses you could be born in any part of the planet�, underlining the cosmopolitan aspect that Torrevieja held with 140 nationalities registered on the local census at hat time.

The integration of so many children of different nationalities and backgrounds is a hope for the future of Torrevieja and humanity.

Learning to play and live togethher.

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Cemetery Celebration in November

by Andy Ormiston

Plans are underway to celebrate the 120 anniversary of the founding of the present cemetery which is continuously being enlarged to deal with such a large population. La Purísima will star on November 2nd one of the most emotional events of the Marian devotion of Torrevieja with the Solemn and Extraordinary Visit that will make for the first time in history to the Cemetery.

The day will have several parts that will begin with the transfer on the shoulders of volunteers the Patroness from the Inmaculada Church to the cemetery, where the interior procession that will go through the old cemetery and its two extensions, prior to the Solemn Eucharist in suffrage of all the torrevejenses that lie there. Upon completion, a memorial tile will be uncovered, which is already being painted by hand in the Sevillian town of Gines. The two music bands of Torrevieja will take part in this day, both in roundtrip transfers, as well as in the interior procession. The Ricardo Lafuente Master Choir will be in charge of singing the Mass Perhaps not of interest to some is the issue of where people were buried. But as the town increased so did the need to expand the cemeteries. Headstones in cemeteries are good resources for local historians as they often provide a first clue to a deceased person’s fruitful life.

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There were two early graveyards alongside the little stream, which is buried under the street of la Rambla Juan Mateo Garcia, located roughly where the Hotel Fontana is now.

One was for the local Catholics, the other for transients such as sailors, who were often non-Catholics. Both burial grounds were kept in immaculate condition.

In 1901 most of the remains in the old cemetery were transferred to the new one near the salt factory well outside the town at that time. But when the hotel was being built in the middle of the century bones were unearthed and put in boxes and transferred to the new cemetery. Niches in the walls had been built by Pablo Lozano Ballester, each niche costing 27 pesetas plus the payment to the Ayuntamiento which was - first row - 45 pesetas: 2nd row - 55 pesetas: 3rd row - 50 pesetas in those days. The religious discrimination continued until November 1971 when the wall dividing the two cemeteries was pulled down in an atmosphere where the in-word was ecumenism and interfaith dialogue. Every other year now the cemetery is expanded to cope with the larger sized international population. A morgue or Tanatorio was built in the 1990’s and a new crematorium in the second decade of the 21st century while a third extension to the municipal cemetery was made in 2011 and in 2014.

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The former Tanatorio above was superseded by a modern user-friendly one located near

Spanish words. Up to this time it was common to have the corpse on display in the house, rather similiar to a wake. At the end of the 20th century an average of 30 niches were being built per month with a byelaw that only residents could be buried there; a necessary regulation as insurance companies were organising funerals of clients in Torrevieja because the cost was half the price of other neighbouring municipalities. At this time one house salesman used to take British clients past the cemetery to bring home to them the fact that if they were retiring to Spain they were going to die here and possibly leave their partner alone. He made a joke of this by telling them of the niche in the wall system of burial, and saying that the top niches were more expensive‌ because they had sea views. He was wrong because the top inches usually belong to the town hall for burial of the poor.

But for many foreigners it is an important facet that has to be faced up to and to take into consideration, as a burial can be very expensive. aormi@icloud.com

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Torrevieja People who”took a walk”

by Andy Ormiston

Among buildings in Torrevieja that were attacked was the Guardia Civil station on 12th August, 1936 by a militia group, including 35 locals. During 1936 several other people of Torrevieja had died as a result of the ever-increasing violence and retribution of injuries, real or imagined. On the beach of Moncayo just before Guardamar, two 35-year-old Guardia Civil agents met their end on 13th August. Both came from Torrevieja, they were Corporal Manuel Bielsa Bermúdez and Juan Monje Redondo and had defended the police station that was attacked the previous day.

Rafal Antón García was only a child, but remembers the shots when the station was attacked as he was visiting his grandparents who lived nearby. His mother quickly swept him up and took him to the safety of his aunt who lived in calle Chapaprieta. A few weeks later on the 28th October Doctor Clemente Gosálvez Valls died in Santa Pola. He had been a Mayor of Torrevieja and was in his finca in the countryside near Elche where a group of Elche militia arrested him and imprisoned him; here he was taken out, without proper trail and shot.

The euphemism used in the records of many of the deaths was ‘paseado’ or passed away while they took a walk, often with a bullet in the nape. Others had death certificates asserting they had shrapnel or metal fragment in the back of the neck. The 60-year-old doctor was mayor of the town from 4th July 1935 until 8th January 1936. Also in August an employee of the San Javier Town Hall, 32 year old Antonio Pardo Alcaraz, ‘paseado’ in Torrevieja. 43-year-old Antonio Aniorte Mateo died in Guardamar in October of 1936 in strange circumstances that related him to the death of Doctor Valls. In the following year on 29th April 1937, another Torrevieja victim of Republican sentiments was Antonio Sala Vallejo, a sailor who was shot by firing squad in Valencia. aormi@icloud.com

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The former Guardia Civil station was attacked by a mob in August 1936, many from Elche, demanding the surrender of the guards and their weapons. This was refused and in a scuffle weapons were fired a young man was killed. An agreement was made that the Guardia and their families who were with them could go by bus to the San Javier military quarters but en route were stopped by militia who took out the two Guardia Civil and shot them.

This occurred in many other Alicante townships. Fear and uncertainty of the present and future were permanent companions. For the first years of the war, the Alicante Province was in the rearguard of the battlefront. Towns in comarcas like Elda, Petrer and Monóvar, because of their strategic geographical importance, the good railway communication and the local agrarian products, were turned into important centres for making and supplying footwear for the soldiers at the front, while peacetime factories became manufacturers of munitions and later on armoured cars.

This comarca lost at least 260 soldiers at the front and afterwards a further 75 people were shot when the area fell to Franco’s army. Long after the war was ended the first mayoress of Torrevieja, Rosa Mazón, named one of the town’s main streets in memory of Ramon Gallud, who had been executed in Alicante prison early in the war and whose name should not be confused with that of a mayor who served the town.

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Fish Farming

by Pat Hynd

There have been fish farms offshore at Guardamar del Segura for many years and now Torrevieja is investigating if the same can be done offshore Torrevieja.

The Guardamar company Culmarréx are the first Spanish company in the aquaculture sector to obtain for your Seabream and Seabass products, certification "Friend of the Sea".

This certification is an independent, nongovernmental, non-profit organization whose purpose is to conserve the marine habitat. Obtaining this certificate is subject to compliance with a strict set of criteria based, among other premises, the sustainability of aquaculture and respect for the environment, criteria that are met by each and every one of the marine farms Group Culmárex.

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In December 2017 a diver inspecting the Guardamar fish nets had an accident that proved fatal. The majority of the Culmarex Group’s fish farm staff made the decision not to dive for a day, in protest of the accident and in memory of their deceased companion.

The diver was apparently carrying out routine maintenance on a cage but the trade union claimed that a lack of surveillance was partly to blame for his death.

The installation of the first marine farm in Torrevieja waters includes an investment of 9.4 million euros from now to 2022, according to the project presented by the Gramabasa company before the Generalitat Valenciana. It is also part of the The Culmarex Group that belongs to a Canadian Cooke Aquaculture - the world's leading salmon producer. It has other similar facilities (and expansion projects in process) in Santa Pola, Altea and San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), among others and has been producing for 25 years.The project is designed for the annual production of 8,000 tons of sea bream and sea bass.

If the firm obtains the administrative approval of the initiative, 84 production cages (fattening) of 38 meters in diameter and 120 perimeter and with 13,000 cubic meters of capacity each will be located in different phases. They are the largest cages that exist for this type of seabass and sea bream production. In addition to 18 commercial cages of 1,600 cubic meters of capacity and 16 in diameter. In total they will occupy the equivalent of 220 football fields.

The project does not include the zoning of the recently announced marine reserve of Torrevieja being processed by the Generalitat near the marine farm itself. aormi@icloud.com

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The Fate of Food by Amanda Little

by Pat Hynd

The Fate of Food by Amanda Little What We’ll eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World.

This is a highly researched book on our use and misuse of food and how its production has changed over the years and how it is likely to change even more for our children and grandchildren. If it hadn’t been for the achievements of industrial agriculture as many as two billion people might not have existed.

While some 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger that is almost 200 million less than 30 years ago. The average household in the 1950s spent about 30 percent of their budget on food. Today that is now 13 per cent.

Processed foods have liberated men and women from the drudgery of preparing ever meal from scratch as has our modern use of technology such as microwaves or robot chefs. But on the reverse we tend to waste more food.

Amanda Little has a book full of facts, some interesting and some that are warnings.

Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world’s most creative and controversial innovators on the front lines of food science, agriculture, and climate change.

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percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades?

Amanda Little, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an award-winning journalist, spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as many U.S. states in search of answers to this question. Her journey took her from an apple orchard in Wisconsin to a remote control organic farm in Shanghai, from Norwegian fish farms to famine-stricken regions of Ethiopia. The race to reinvent the global food system is on, and the challenge is twofold: We must solve the existing problems of industrial agriculture while also preparing for the pressures ahead. She tells the fascinating story of human innovation and explores new and old approaches to food production while charting the growth of a movement that could redefine sustainable food on a grand scale.

She asks tough questions: Can GMOs actually be good for the environment—and for us? Are we facing the end of animal meat? What will it take to eliminate harmful chemicals from farming? How can a clean, climate-resilient food supply become accessible to all?

Throughout her journey, Little finds and shares a deeper understanding of the threats of climate change and encounters a sense of awe and optimism about the lessons of our past and the scope of human ingenuity.

Animal production is at an all time high, but is also part of our climatic change with gases. In her travels Amanda Little looked at modern production of actually growing meat without bones with the texture, colour of real meat.

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There are already post-food companies preparing for when we grow insufficient products, so we now have Soylent, for example, that has produced a vegan meal – nutritiously complete. The Pentagon is producing a range of sustenance for the military that can be produced on demand from a 3-D printer. Sensors on the soldiers bodies will detect any deficiencies in nutrients and send that data to the printer which will then generate a customised, nutrient fortified food bars and pellets from flavoured liquids and powders.

As an elderly person I’m glad to have lived to see pigs, cows, chickens and other domestic animals. To have seen fields of wheat and corn, glistening gold in the sunlight. I’m sure future generations will not go hungry but what will be the origins of their daily meal?

It’s a fascinating book looking at what we eat, what we produce and where we will finally be. You are what you eat.

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Churros for breakfast

One of the summer sights is that of churro vans with queues of people waiting to get their breakfast or a snack while they walk.

A churro is a fried-dough pastry—predominantly choux—based snack. Churros are traditional in Spain and Portugal, from where they originate, as well as the Philippines and Ibero-America. They are also consumed in the Southwestern United States, France and other areas that have received immigration from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries.

In Spain, churros can either be thin (and sometimes knotted) or long and thick, where they are known as porras in some regions.

They are normally eaten for breakfast dipped in hot chocolate, dulce de leche or café con leche. Sugar is often sprinkled on top.

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A Taste of College

by Pat Hynd

Chocolate was brought to Europe by the Spanish conquistadors but was found to be very bitter. That is until the nuns added sugar and milk and stated making confecciones whose recipes are still used. Barcelona is especially worth a visit as bakers are full of chocolate creations.

# On Sunday 14th July, Stonyhurst College featured in the Channel 5 series, ‘The Wonderful World of Chocolate'. In the fourth episode, the cameras followed cake-maker Rosie Dummer (Rosie Cake Diva) as she crafted a beautiful chocolate cake replica of the college aormi@icloud.com

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to celebrate the Great Academies weekend in the school’s 425th year, and showed aerial views of the college and surrounding countryside.

It’s always interesting how today’s women can have so many careers, After completing a degree in architecture, Rosie became the army’s very first female helicopter pilot. After ten years, she retired from the army in order to have a family and, by accident, found herself in the world of cake-making, becoming a real artist in the field. Rosie has been featured in various magazines, was the winner of the Cake Masters Wedding Cake of the Year Award in 2012, and is a regular on TV and radio. She confesses she has difficulty in finding a link between the three professions she has embarked so far, but what is certain is that Rosie approaches every activity with energy and passion.

Her portfolio already boasts a number of impressive sugary creations: Fabergé eggs, Big Ben, and even a life-size brigadier guard, which was then eaten by a real-life brigadier guard. The Stonyhurst model, however, could be described as probably the biggest and certainly one of the most challenging projects that Rosie has worked on to date. In addition to the intricate details and the size of the construction, Rosie and her team faced the challenge of transporting the finished product to the school and then up to the main hall safe and sound, with no lift available. The huge cake measured 6ft across, weighed a whopping 100kg and featured 5 towers, 38 windows and thousands of bricks.

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The pupils of Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall were asked to create confectionery models of themselves. 86 original figures were positioned in front of the majestic chocolate building. “I genuinely think this is brilliant,” Rosie commented on the initiative. “They are going to have their own little school photo of their edible figures outside the front of the college.”

After presenting the cake to amazed pupils, staff members and alumni, the first cut was soon made and then everyone could taste a slice of the college. One of the students commented: “If you ever had a brick of Stonyhurst, that is what it would taste like: very chocolatey and vintage.”

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of Spanish Cookery

by Pat Hynd

As said previously many Spanish bakers and chefs are artisan chocolateurs. Here are some chocolatey recipes for you try out.

Chocolate milkshake Ideal for anytime.

1 tbsp chocolate hazelnut spread 250ml semi-skimmed milk 2 scoops chocolate ice creams 5 marshmallows 30ml double cream, whipped 1 tsp toasted hazelnuts, chopped

Load the back of a teaspoon with a little of the chocolate spread and spread it in a long line from the bottom of the inside of the glass to the top. Put the rest of the chocolate spread into a bowl in the microwave or in a small saucepan over a low heat.

Warm through for a few seconds just until runny and set aside.

Put the milk and chocolate ice cream into a blender. Whizz everything up until smooth then pour into your prepared glass.

Top with a layer of the marshmallows and a spoonful of whipped cream. Decorate with a drizzle of the warmed chocolate spread and a few toasted hazelnuts. Serve immediately with a straw.

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mocha puddings Mocha simply means anything that combines chocolate with coffee. Prune and almonds are often used in Spanish recipes.

150ml milk 50g pitted prunes 2 tsp instant coffee 50g soft butter 50g icing sugar 1 large egg 50g ground almonds 2 tbsp cocoa 1 tbsp self-raising flour 4 scoops coffee or vanilla ice cream, to serve (optional) 4 tsp coffee liqueur, to serve (optional)

Measure the milk in a large jug, then blend with the prunes and coffee in a food processor until smooth. Add the butter, sugar, egg, almonds, cocoa, flour and a pinch of salt, then blitz again to make a thick batter.

Scrape evenly and cleanly (don’t take the mixture up the sides) into 4 x 175ml ramekins (don’t use any with metal on them!). Cook in the microwave, spaced round the edge of the turntable, on Medium for 6 mins. The puddings will still look a bit moist, but that’s fine. Stand for 5 mins, then serve topped with a scoop of ice cream and a little liqueur, if you like.

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A very simple and easy summer postre Chocolate mousse 2 eggs 4 slightly heaped tbsp cacao powder 4 tbsp maple syrup 2 tbsp coconut oil, melted and cooled a dash of vanilla essence

Method Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix with a whisk until smooth. Divide into two ramekins and put in the fridge for at least 30 mins to set. Then serve.

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Protection Civil

by Dave Stewart

Recently Torrevieja had a problem when the local branch en masse resigned. Although with toure givens it was actually politically motivated as it was claimed that a boss had been put in charge without any consultation. In the end the 40plus volunteers returned to their duties satisfied with the new boss and his assurances.

Many countries around the world have civil defense organizations dedicated to protecting civilians from military attacks and providing rescue services after widespread disasters. In most countries, civil defense is a government-managed and often volunteer-staffed organization. Britain had the famous Dad’s Army or Home Brigade during the war.

Towards the end of the Cold War, a number of civil defense organizations have been disbanded or mothballed (as in the case of the Royal Observer Corps in the United Kingdom and the United States civil defense), while others have changed their focuses into providing rescue services after natural disasters (as for the State Emergency Service in Australia). The Civil Defence Corps was a civilian volunteer organization established in Great Britain in 1949, to aid in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, though, it was clear that even with civil defense people would still die and so they disbanded in 1968.

In general, we can specify that civil protection or civil defense is the demand for emergency services of a municipality, extended to all levels, and involving all parties.

However, it is understood as civil protection or civil defense in the strict sense of the specific persons in charge of protecting the citizens of a country against catastrophes of any kind, whether of human or natural origin.

The bodies that regulate civil protection or civil defense often define a form of citizen participation by which a group of people prepared to act in disasters, in support of wage emergency services, and who serve as responsible persons in the organization of citizen assistance. In Spain, these groups are structured as Municipal Groups of Civil Protection Volunteers, managed by the respective municipalities All those people who are willing to collaborate in the activities of the Civil Protection or Civil Defense services can be part of a Civil Protection Association. The relationship that volunteers have with the municipality is understood to be free and selfless, even though the volunteer has the right to be insured against possible risks. Minors, with the consent of their legal guardians, may participate in civil protection training activities, creating a youth section within the group, but may never participate in the preventive or operational measures that are developed (fires, health interventions .. .) aormi@icloud.com

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B y Law, in accordance with article 30.4 of the Constitution, citizens may be imposed duties to deal with cases of serious risk, catastrophe or public calamity, actual de facto civil protection budgets. Provide support for emergency operational services at their request.

Collaborate in the care of those affected in emergencies (evacuation, shelter, supply ...), always coordinated by the corresponding service.

Torrevieja’s group started in the former slaughterhouse which is almost alongside the Local Police and Firemen stations. They all interact in emergency situations and have intensive training to deal with disasters, including earthquakes and have had courses at Torrevieja Hospital on how to act. They also act as stewards in local events such as fiestas or races. The will be in evidence during the Vuelta 2019 in Torrevieja in August.

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They are located in municipal, autonomous and state services depending on the administrative scope of competition, the municipal scope is reflected by the Law of Local Regime Bases (LRBL) in its article 25.c in which it gives the powers to the municipalities in the matter of Civil Protection of more than 20,000 inhabitants as apostille art.29. And to the Provincial Councils and Island Councils in those with less than 20,000 inhabitants. This together with the town councils by Basic Self-Protection Standard 393/2007 says that the town councils must endorse the self-protection plans and inspect the degree of implementation of the existing ones and that this also implies that with more than 20,000 inhabitants they must have an emergency plan territorial. In addition to coordinating emergency plans when activated, the figure of Civil Protection technicians perform numerous technical functions, taking into account authority in the exercise of their functions. Not to be confused with the head of volunteer groups or with Civil Protection volunteer groups, this is a non-professional, voluntary and altruistic activity that has nothing to do with the figure of the technician or with a Civil Protection service.

Among others the main functions of the technicians are: -Create municipal emergency plans and keep them updated and implemented.

-Create the self-protection plans of the municipal buildings -Revise with the architecture department the self-protection plans that are presented to the city council in addition to inspecting the degree of implementation of existing ones. Advise the mayor and councilors - Meet the local Civil Protection Commission - - Coordinate the actions contained in the emergency plans when they are activated - - Create the municipal risk map - Create the catalog of mobilizable resources - - Process civil protection grant programs - - Design training plans for the group of volunteers - -Emit reports - -Study events - -Create agreements with other institutions

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Cinema Back flashes

by Dave Stewart

Within its cultural programming, ”la Caixa” bank pays preferential attention to the fundamental artistic manifestations in the formation of contemporary sensibility. Each year they organize exhibitions that travel through Spain offering information through modern ethnology of a variety of subjects.

In this line, the exhibition now on in Torrevieja in the Recinto area behind the funfair is dedicated to cinema, which, together with photography, is the most characteristic artistic form of the twentieth century. Thus,

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in recent years the entity has dedicated retrospective samples to great names in the world of cinema, such as Charles Chaplin, Federico Fellini and Georges Méliès.

After the organization of a large retrospective on the French filmmaker that could be seen in the last two years in the CaixaForum centers that ”la Caixa” has spread throughout the Spanish territory, now the entity presents a new and innovative exhibition project, a trip in the time to move visitors to the years in which the cinema became a popular show, thanks, in large part, to the inventions and techniques developed by Georges Méliès.

Son of a footwear entrepreneur, Méliès (1861-1938) was a cartoonist, magician, artifact builder, theater director, actor, decorator and technician, and also producer - producing and distributing more than 500 films between 1896 and 1912. He reigned in the world of fantasy genre and cinematographic tricks for almost twenty years, and his contribution to the seventh art was fundamental: he introduced the dream, magic and fiction into the cinema.

Before the documentary film of the Lumière brothers, the founding act of Méliès consisted combining the universe of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, the father of modern magic, with Marey's cinematography, and also giving a decisive impulse to the Cinema as a show.

As a genius of the special effects, Méliès applied to the cinema magic tricks and the magic lantern technique: pyrotechnics, optical effects, horizontal and vertical deployable, camera stops, chain fades, overprints, mounting and color effects, etc. It is as if this virtuoso of the technique had invented and used everything.

Méliès lived a few golden years, of extraordinary popularity, which culminated in the premiere, in 1902, of Le voyage dans la Lune (The Journey to the Moon), a film that was seen by millions of viewers. Two of his most famous films, Journey to the Moon (1902) and Journey through the Impossible (1904), narrate strange, surreal and fantastic journeys inspired by Jules Verne and are considered among the most important and influential films of science cinema fiction. Méliès was also a horror film pioneer with his early film Le Manoir du Diable (1896). Unfortunately, the expansion of the film industry and the emergence of large companies such as Pathé and Gaumont led Méliès to ruin and oblivion. In 1923, totally ruined, he destroyed the negatives of all his films and ended up selling toys in the Parisian station of Montparnasse.

The journalist Léon Druhot recognized him at the station and, from that moment on, his work began to be valued and recovered again.

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where the cinema took shape as a show: fun and emotions. And, to a large extent, it was thanks to a man, Georges Méliès, who knew how to understand what people wanted and how to make them dream and be distracted. His films marked the path followed by the first filmmakers, in Europe and the United States.

The music video Tonight, Tonight from The Smashing Pumpkins is inspired by the silent film Journey to the Moon.

The 2011 film, Hugo, by director Martin Scorsese, which is based on Brian Selznick's novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, is a tribute to this great film illusionist. In it Méliès is played by British actor Ben Kingsley.

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In the novel The mechanics of the heart, by Mathias Malzieu, partially tells the story of Méliès, who intervenes as a secondary character.

The video Heaven for Everyone, by the English group Queen, contains images of the films The Journey to the Moon, Journey through the Impossible (Voyage à travers l'impossible) and L'Éclipse du Soleil in Pleine Lune (The Eclipse of the Sun in full moon).

On May 3, 2018 the search engine "Google" dedicated the first interactive "Doodle" in 360º on the occasion of the commemoration of the release of the movie "Conquering the Pole" that premiered on May 3, 1912.

For the Torrevieja exhibition The Show Begins in an exclusive and innovative exhibition space. Georges Méliès and the cinema of 1900, ”la Caixa” has designed a special and innovative space, the UD 100. This system converts the box of a container into an exhibition space of 100 square meters free and with a height in its central part of up to 5.5 meters. The developed system also allows joining more than one deployable unit to obtain a space that can include exhibitions of 200 square meters.

In this case, two 100-meter units transfer visitors to a fair in 1900, with their barracks and party atmosphere, to discover the environment in which the cinema took shape as a show, as well as the man who contributed to It to a greater extent.

A sophisticated hydraulic self-leveling system controlled by a touch screen allows, in record time, that two technicians assume the work of deploying the UD 100 from the complete opening of the cabin to its total settlement on the ground: one directs the movements and another controls, confirms or aborts for any unforeseen event. The individual ground anchoring system allows to correct unevennesses of up to 4%.

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Charity Fund Raisers

Charity for charities Auction stopped for summer now but will re-start Sept 16th.

Anyone in need of a wheelchair, they have one.

Presentation night will be in November.

When we have the tickets available I'll post info.

Did you know that in #Torrevieja there is a collection service for goods? Don't throw things in the street.

Let's make it viral and let everyone know it Don't throw it call the phone first 966 702 390

from Maria of the Pink Ladies, and I'd like to say another big thank you to the fab Zumbarinas & Zumbarettes for your fantastic support on the day and with sponsorship! Total raised now from the AECC Walk for Life is a fantastic 8, 827.95 euros!

Maria also asked me if there are 1 or 2 ladies/gents who would be interested in forming a Quesada and surrounding areas group of the Pink Ladies/Panthers. Aim of the group would be to organise &/or attend charity/fun day or evening events etc to promote awareness of the screening programs,and of course for fund raising. Not a huge amount of work involved and there would be support from the Orihuela Costa branch when needed.

If anyone is interested, please let either myself or Maria Wilson know. xx

Thank you to all the volunteers and local community who helped raise funds for 7 defribrillators one which we donated to Emerald Isle in February 2019 ( 5 to local police cars and one to Red Cross ambulace ) A defibrillator has been installed in the Emerald Isle with 10 members of staff fully trained in its operation, should any person in the community suffer what is, or appears to be a heart attack.

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Torry Army AGM was held on Monday 29th July at Casa Ventura, and a new committee voted in. Outgoing committee members leaving were Pat Stewart Eddie Greenbury, Carol and John MacDonald, and Ian Martin. As retiring Chairperson I want to thank everyone for their support I have received during my years on the committee I have made some great friends who have helped me through the loss of Alex. The new committee consists of Suzanne White. Chairperson. Ray St Quintin Treasurer. Mick Drew General Secretary and minute taker. Paddy Ramos Merchandising and office. I hope your will support them as you did me. I will still do the Facebook and the quizzes with profits going to the Football Club Ian Martin is going to do the Torry Army website. The Torry Army memberships are due on the 1st August for Social members and the Football fans fans

SPONSORS present cheque to ladies of Help at Home for their champion walk along the Santiago Camino.

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HELP VEGA BAJA 12th July, HELP VEGA BAJA treasurer and president were honoured to be invited along to the office of AFE Cancer in Torrevieja. HELP Vega Baja recently made a donation of 2,000 euros to this wonderful charity.

AFE Cancer supports those diagnosed with cancer and their families through what are often very difficult times. The volunteers work tirelessly to ensure that support is available to meet the needs of the whole family.

Please take the time to find out more about AFE cancer charity.Here at HELP Vega Baja we are delighted to be in a position to offer support and work alongside them wherever possible.

If you are interested in finding out more about becoming a Listener with HELP Vega Baja's Connection Team, call

966 723 733 or email president@helpvegabaja.com for details of our next training course.

CONNECTIONS TEAM: Confidential, emotional support helpline.

Don't struggle alone - call the Connections team. 965 021 552

Let's see how far and wide we can share this post! Thank you.

Tony Jones who is captain of the Lime Bar Golf Society sponsored a Captains Day at Lo Romero Golf.

He had 31 players which was a great turnout and the individual winners were as follows, 3rd place Dave Wright with 37 points after count back, 2nd place Joe Mcaleer with 38 points but after count back, 1st place goes to John Walls aormi@icloud.com

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with 38 points. Winners of the Captains Cup, blind pairs were Jimmy O’Rourke and Barry Glover with 73 points.

Nearest to the Captains drive was Roger Lilles and nearest the pin on hole 5 was Bud Butler, hole 7 Kevin Molford, hole 10 Vic Coombs, hole 12 Kevin Molford, hole 15 Lynn Newbury and hole 18 Derek Willison.

Thank you to Tony and all the golfers, their wives, friends and customers of the Lime Bar who bought a rae ticket, football card team and treated themselves to a delicious hot dog or hamburger courtesy of Sammy, Sue and Mark at the Lime Bar, your generosity has raised ₏315 for Help Vega Baja.

If you are interested in becoming a member, please log onto our website at www.helpvegabaja.com where you will find details of how to join together with our member benefits, all for â‚Ź10 annual subscription. If you have any questions or need any further information, please call our San Miguel oďŹƒce on 966 723 733.

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Carole Jones

Treasurer

Ever young RASCALS presented a donation to Matilde Sanchez and Andy Ormiston who received it on behalf of Bali Foundation in a drive to raise 2,000 euros for three cows for three poor families to give them an income.

Present was singing mascot Daisy the Cow who sang for the RASCALS. Halfway there now so its one and a half cows to go.

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Help at Home handed over a cheque to the Orihuela branch of the Spanish Cruz Roja towards buying an ambulance, hopefully for the coast area.

Congratulations to local singer and composer Shani Ormiston on the release of her latest song and video. She tells us that from start to finish it was all her own thoughts and imaginations that produced the words, lyrics and storyboard. It’s a pop style song telling the story of that annoying person we all know who thinks they are the centre of the universe egocentric. In this instance a guy with a large Panda head represents that person who gives the singer a sense of vertigo, a word that is the same in Spanish and English. It’s available on Spotify, CdBaby and Youtube and well worth a visit as the music is really beating out but I will not bore you with more blabladiddy.

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ADIEM is a Spanish association that supports people with mental illnesses.

The are an indispensable association in the community with several projects that have proved to every successful treatments.

Mental health is a subject often scoffed at but most of knows someone who suffers mentally be it from depression, anxiety or other malign illness.

HELP AT HOME is helping raise awareness and funds for ADIEM to build an extension to their building.

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La Vuelta de España 2019 begins in Torrevieja

Our cover this month shows a mountain of salt, which is almost ready for the starting point of the 2019 Round Spain Cycling Race or La Vuelta.

The 74th edition of the Vuelta a España starts on Saturday 24 August with a flat TTT. The Gran Salida is in Las Salinas de Torrevieja, a Natural Park with pink-hued water lagoons in the south of the province of Alicante. The race features eight summit finishes – with the unprecented Javalambre, a brutal climb stage in Andorra and Los ‘rampas inhumanas’ of Machucos most notable. The Spanish Grand Tour finishes on Sunday 15 September in Madrid . The 1st stage is a team time trial on the flat.

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Stage 2 runs from Benidorm to Calpe and stage 3 goes to Alicante. Albeit far from flat, these races are likely fast finishers showdowns, which definitely is the case in stage 4. This one will finish in El Puig, a town 15 kilometres north of Valencia.

Stage 5 is for the mountain goats as the riders face a tough summit finish on the Pico del Buitre. At 11.8 kilometres, the final climb leads to the Javalambre Observatory. The average gradient is hovering around 10% for most of the ascent.

The 6th stage runs on hilly terrain to a summit finish in Ares del Maestrat, while La Vuelta peps up its elevation profile in stage 7 with the short but ultra-trying finale on the slopes of the Alto Mas de la Costa. Just 3.8 kilometres long, but brutal. The average gradient is 9.9% and the steepest ramps are 21%.

Following another chance for sprinters or attackers in stage 8 the first week of action ends with the extremely demanding 9th stage in the mountains of Andorra.

Cortals d’Encamp will serve as a finish at the end of a race of less than 100 kilometres. With the Ordino and Gallina climbs in the first part of the race, the final segment consists of three climbs in a row and 3.5 kilometres of dust road. The finale offers 22 kilometres of virtually continuous climbing.

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Vuelta 2019: week 2

The Spanish Grand Tour is set to include an individual time trial in France after the first rest day. The 36.1 kilometres route runs from Jurançon to Pau. The town in the foothills of the Pyrenees also hosted an individual time trial in the last edition of the Tour de France.

On the 4th of September the riders head back to Spain. The 11th stage starts in Saint-Palais to finish in Urdax (or Urdazubi), where Valerio Conti soloed to victory in 2016. A Bilbao finish is scheduled for stage 12 in the photo .

After Bilbao and Urdazubi the route takes in a summit finish on the Los Machucos in the 13th stage. The Spanish are talking about ‘rampas inhumanas’ when referring to this climb, which is 7.3 kilometres and see-sawing between ramps of 26% and 10% descents.

Oviedo will be included in La Vuelta for the first time since 1987 in stage 14, while the 15th stagefinishes atop the Alto del Acebo – 11 kilometres at 7.2% – and the 16th stage at the Alto de La Cubilla, which is a grinding 27 kilometres long ascent.

Vuelta 2019: week 3

The 17th stage runs from Aranda de Duero to a likely sprint finish in Guadalajara, just north of Madrid, while stage 18 will be played out in the Sierra de Guadarrama, a mountain range close to the Spanish capital, where Fabio Aru won the 2015 Vuelta at the expense of Tom Dumoulin. This stage features intermediate climbs up the Puerto Navacerrada, Puerto de la Morcuera (twice) and Puerto de Cotos.

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Stage 19 travels from Ávila to Toledo and is tailor-made for power sprinters and the penultimate stage runs on mountainous terrain from Arenas de San Pedro to a summit finish at Plataforma de Gredos (above).

The last stage is for the sprinters. The race starts in Fuenlabrada and finishes on a circuit in Madrid.

The mayor of Torrevieja, is Eduardo Dolón, who as delegate for Tourism in the Costa Blanca, was largely responsible for the inclusion of Torrevieja as the starting point.

As Mayor he has published a Municipal Order dated July 22, 2019, which lets us know:

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“That next August 24, 2019 will take place the time trial stage of La Vuelta cycling to Spain, whose itinerary runs through Torrevieja streets.

Therefore, from 1:00 p.m. on August 24 until 10 p.m. on the same day, the streets must be free of any type of vehicles and will cut traffic during said period of time, traffic and parking being totally prohibited. He said “Given the importance that the event has for our city, I beg for maximum collaboration from all citizens. ”

The Tour will be seen in 189 countries, with more than 400 million potential spectators, and from the beginning of the stage at 6:52 p.m. and until the expected end of it, 8:30 p.m., the main stage will be Torrevieja city, its salt flats and its promenades and beaches´

The Alicante rapper Arkano (in above photo) has been in charge of putting the music to an audiovisual project. The work, shot entirely on the Costa Blanca, is being broadcast on the different RTVE channels. The Cycling Tour of Spain will be this 2019 more Alicante than ever. To the three stages that will run through the province, among which the official departure from the Salinas de Torrevieja, highlights the tuning spot of this international event that, in its 74th edition, has chosen the Costa Blanca as the main protagonist. Well known known rapper from Alicante - Arkano, put the music to this original spot with his song "Another attempt", a theme that speaks of overcoming and the need to find the best version of oneself. The Port of Alicante, the artist's hometown, the Salinas de Torrevieja, environment that will host the official exit of La Vuelta 19 next August, or the natural space of Xorret de Catí are some of the enclaves in which it has been filmed This audiovisual work, which also includes images from Benidorm, Calpe or Ibi. It can be sen on YouTube. aormi@icloud.com

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The previous mayor JOSE MANUEL DOLON who in previous years opposed the race in Torrevieja, added that "the exit of the Vuelta from our Salinas is an opportunity for us to project internationally everything Torrevieja represents at the environmental level." In this sense, he has valued the collaborative work that is being done both with the management of La Vuelta and with the different administrations involved so that “in those dates of August in which our city is at the maximum of its residential occupation all the necessary requirements are fulfilled so that a sporting event as important as this one is carried out with the maximum guarantees ”.

The director of the Cycling Tour in Spain, Javier Guillén, “it is a global event that reaches more than 400 million spectators”, so the projection offered by the city of Torrevieja is very important. In this sense, Guillen has affirmed that “we are the only ones that, in addition to putting Torrevieja on the map, we teach people what the city has, what is behind this privileged scenario, and why they should visit it and spend their vacation here. ”

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In the course of it, the point at which the goal of this team time trial will be located will be the port of Torrevieja, next to Marina Salinas, in front of the Levant of Levante, ensuring that it will be the space with the greatest media visibility together with the previously announced departure from the Salinas de Torrevieja. The media from around the world will have facilities in the Auditorium.

Both Eduardo Dolón and Javier Guillén have made this decision as a result of the spectacularity that will be able to generate a space that encompasses the Levante Dike, the two sheets of water that are on both sides, the marinas or the Paseo Marítimo Juan Aparicio, whose aerial images have been convinced that they will be remembered for many years.

Eduardo Dolón has said that in recent days those responsible for La Vuelta and the Local Police of Torrevieja and municipal technicians have established the best possible route in terms of safety, spectacular and from the point of view of the sports needs of a test of this type.

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historic milestone the launch of a renewed and positive image of the city towards the rest of Spain and the world. ” The tour round Torrevieja will take cyclists from salt mountains to Avenida Paris and turning at La Rosaleda and coming back to the town centre via the Avenida Purisima.

Starting from the former railway station, following the green lake salt route. Then return to La Mata by path to the shore of the Laguna de La Mata. This means the route will include Cabo Cervera to Los Locos Once on the beach of La Mata following the coast until the circular is closed.

Javier Guillén has also announced what he has known as ‘La Vuelta Junior’, an event in which seven Torrevieja schools will participate and be involved. Thus, during the months of April and May and with the participation of the association of professional cyclists, there will be a series of theoretical and practical classes on the world of cycling in topics such as road safety and respect for the environment.

Of those seven schools, 100 boys and girls will be chosen to participate in the last kilometer of the tour of the first stage of La Vuelta on the same day, August 24 and, in this way, feel professional cyclists for a day.

Eduardo Dolón has informed us that the epicenter of the communication of La Vuelta will be located in the International Auditorium of Torrevieja, which will remain open from Wednesday, August 21 (date on which all

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participating teams will have to be already concentrated in the province of Alicante) so that the almost 3000 people who are part of the device of this great sporting event are accredited. A cycling Tour of Spain that will be seen in 189 countries, with more than 400 million potential spectators, and that for almost two hours, from the beginning of the stage at 18:52 hours and until the expected end of it, the 20:30 hours, the city of Torrevieja, its salt flats and its promenades and beaches will have its main stage.

Javier Guillén said that this year they have found a way out of the innovative, aesthetic return and that without a doubt it has a spectacular setting such as the salt mountains and the salt lagoon. Finally, Guillén has indicated that the best that Torrevieja has is its audience, since whenever La Vuelta has passed through this city it has had the best and largest number of spectators of all stages.

Habaneras Commercial Centre are supporting the race. Between August 1 and 25 poeeple are invited to join the #YoSoyTorrevieja movement with La Vuelta and help add kilometers. With this new initiative, in addition to transmitting the values of this sport, it will also collaborate with solidarity action.

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project, where your kilometers will be the protagonists of this solidarity Cycling Tour.

The Alberto Contador Foundation is a non-profit organisation that bases its actions on two main pillars: On the one hand, its actions are geared towards promoting the everyday use of bicycles as a mode of transport and locomotion, and thus achieving a general awareness within society that cycling is a source of health and wellbeing.

And on the other hand, it also focuses on the fight against Stroke. The foundation aims to raise the population’s awareness regarding this cerebrovascular accident that increasingly affects our society and, in many cases, could be prevented through healthy habits.

“Bicis para la Vida” (“Bikes for Life”).

This solidarity project was created a few years ago by the Alberto Contador Foundation, the Ananta Foundation, the Seur Foundation and the Pinto Disabled Association, which is already a national reference with regards to the donation of second-hand bicycles.If you like to ride a bike, you are

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willing to pedal for a good cause and, in addition to being supportive, have fun and win prizes, this initiative is for you.

How can you participate? First of all, download the Habaneras CC APP because you will need it! And if you already have it‌ read on.

Every afternoon, come to the mall and collaborate by climbing one of the bicycles located in the central square of Habaneras and travel as many kilometers as you can, in 2 minutes of time. You will know what your entire journey has been at the end of time, since it will appear on a screen where the general ranking is shown.

You can participate as many times as you want because for every 18km that are travelled ... a bicycle will be donated to the Alberto Contador Foundation! And if you are one of the best riders of this Vuelta, you can also win a Solidarity bike and a V.I.P Ticket to live the La Vuelta Ciclista exit to Spain 19, together with all the teams and their sponsors.

Each week we will close a stage and we will have a podium of winners represented by those participants who travel the most Km, and who will be given a solidarity bike as a gift. Thus, during the entire period of the action, a total of 12 bicycles will be delivered, 3 weekly. And that's not all! Since among all the participants of the month, the two best scores will be the winners of a VIP ticket to enjoy La Vuelta and they can also be part of the official delivery of the solidarity bicycles, to the international figure of cycling; Alberto counter.

With your help we intend to achieve the largest donation of bicycles in history

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