Almeria residents rediscover La Molineta thanks to the coronavirus | Football24 News English

The neighbors of the North area of ​​the Los Angeles neighborhood have verified how the third wave of Covid-19 he has revalued the periurban park of The Pinwheel, a natural space of around fifty hectares with a rich natural, cultural and ethnographic heritage, Unfortunately long ignored from public institutions.

Explain it Francisco Pascual, from La Palmera Neighborhood Association, ensuring that with the pandemic “we are watching these days and especially on weekends, as we are invaded, peacefully of course, for crowd of almeria from other areas of the city that enter these spaces, from the Goya and Caravaca schools, the climb up La Molineta or the Rambla Belén and venture through the entire Molineta, its paths, hills and valleys ”.

Panorama
He adds that these days, “everyonewe look for fresh air , field where to breathe, social distance and distance from other spaces more classics to walk through, but surely more saturated and dangerous“.

“We see old people, boys and girls young boys, couples with their children; sure that many come to remember previous visits, others to discover what is La Molineta or Cordel de la Campita, and they remain shocked to see the whole city from there, from Cabo de Gata to La Alcazaba or San Cristóbal ”.

Pascual explains that he believes that he is not wrong in stating that most are leaving “satisfied to see a place like this in the middle of the city, I live even though nobody takes care of him, but with the bittersweet feeling that, with a little interest and investment by the administrations, we could have a unique space to walk, do sports, so that our children and youth could study in the field a little bit of ethnology, botany, zoology, geology, our birds, and also a little of the local history of the 20th century with its channels and channels that reached our city from Benahadux through La Molineta through the famous San Indalecio channel.

Historical claim
A moment, point out the neighbors of the neighborhood, that should be used to reclaim that urban park again in an area so close and historically neglected. Among them Eusebio Villanueva, former president of The palm Y today councilor in the City Council, which trusts that the renewed interest of thousands of citizens, who have lived with their backs to La Molineta, help give it all the attention it has not had in the past.

Villanueva see light at the end of a tunnel many years of demands neighbors and the numerous social, neighborhood and environmental organizations that have joined this demand, and points out that the councilor Margarita Cobos has been interested in adding value to a space urban with vocation to be the great park of the city, and in fact it has already taken some steps in that direction.

In this way, an oblivion that has lasted many decades would end. and would allow the people of Almeria to enjoy a new park to add to a city that does not have large public spaces for the enjoyment of its neighbors. An area located next to the Rambla de Almería, very accessible on foot from several areas and just fifteen minutes walk from the Puerta de Purchena