Busy weekends

WEEKENDS from April to June have been busy for the Torrevieja Natural History Museum as it welcomed 1,206 people from 25 countries through its doors.

Of the total, 778 people have visited the museum for free (65 per cent) and 428 on guided tours (35 per cent). A total of 259 students from 10 educational centres and associations in Torrevieja, Pilar de la Horadada and San Miguel de Salinas have visited the facility. In addition, two groups of Erasmus students from educational centres in Portugal and Poland also attended.

Visitors registered as the general public and families have been from 23 different towns: 75 per cent from Torrevieja and 25 per cent from towns in Alicante, Murcia, Madrid, Asturias, Vizcaya and Toledo, and even from the United Kingdom.

Seventy­three per cent of the visits correspond to national visitors from 10 autonomous communities, especially Valencia, and 27 per cent foreigners: Ukrainians (19 per cent), Swedes (14 per cent), Finns (11 per cent) and up to a total of 24 nationalities, mostly from Northern Europe.

The Natural History Museum is located at Avenida de la Estación s/n (Old RENFE station exhibition room), 03181, in Torrevieja. For more information call: (+34) 965 719 900.