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Camposol pharmacy Camposol finally has a pharmacy, providing a much needed service for local residents on the urbanisation p6
The Torre del Espolón re-opens for business
Issue 04
23-29 NOVember 2012
End of the road for the Pescadería de Miguel The restaurant in Santiago de la Ribera is finally being demolished.
The Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural de España financed work to restore the tower which cracked from top to bottom when the quake hit, resulting in the roof caving in p20
Reporting of assets held outside Spain to the tax authorities
assets with a value of over €50,000 located abroad must now be declared p34
Digital photography courses in Los Alcázares
The Los Alcázares Digital Camera Club (LADCC) will be running a series of training courses starting at the beginning of 2013 p53
The bulldozers move in
After a long fight and 2 years of abandonment, the end has finally come for the Pescadería de Miguel, located on the beach of playa Barnuevo in Santiago de la Ribera, within the municipality of San Javier. This week the bulldozers have moved in, ripping off the roof, before smashing out the walls and windows, lorries waiting on the beachside paseo to cart away 50 years of happy memories. Residents are divided as to whether the demoli-
tion has cleared a health hazard and an eyesore, the property abandoned for 2 years after the owners were forced to leave and the empty premises became a focal point of attention for local vandals and graffiti artists or a part of local history and a tourist attraction for the town during the quiet winter months. Long before the Mar Menor became a tourist destination, it’s shores were the home of simple fishing communities, with a number of small set-
tlements scattered around the fringes of the water. Much of the land was undeveloped and unfarmed, with a small population, which in the case of Santiago de la Ribera, only began to expand in the late 1880’s when José María Barnuevo y Rodrigo de Villamayor de Ulloa, a dignitary in the Order of Santiago, married Teresa Sandoval y Mena, who had inherited the Torre Mínguez farm estate, an area which included what is now Santiago de la Ribera. Continued on page 6