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Thousands of people gather in the streets of Benidorm to witness the Mora y Cristiana Entrance

Several thousand residents and tourists gathered over the weekend to witness the Entry of the Moors and Christians, which took place from 8 p.m. through the main streets of the centre of Benidorm, with an itinerary that started from Tomás Ortuño and ran through Venus, Ruzafa, Martínez Alejos and Gambo to the Plaza de la Hispanidad

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The platform was located in Martínez Alejos, at the height of Pal Street, and was chaired by Mayor Toni Pérez, the Councilor for Fiestas, Mariló Cebreros, members of the local corporation, the president of the Festes Majors Patronals, Vicente Solaz and representatives of the UNDEF among other personalities.

The parade began with the float of the Moorish ambassador, who was followed by the different 'filaes': Tuaregs, Tagarins, Benidarhims and Nasrids, who preceded the pageantry of the Moorish queen and the queen's float.

 

On the Christian side, the float paraded with the Christian warden, the Filá Cruzados and the Filá Cavallers de la Baronía, to which the Christian queen belonged, who appeared with her pageantry made up of the queens and ladies of the Festes Majors Patronals, Angélica Morenilla and Daniela Talavera.

 

Benidorm begins the renaturalisdation of Els Tolls

 

 

 

Benidorm City Council has started this week the renaturalization works of Els Tolls, an action framed in the Sustainable and Integrative Urban Development Strategy (EDUSI) that seeks to improve the environmental footprint of the neighbourhood. These works, co-financed between FEDER funds and the council, consolidate the improvement of accessibility and mobility of the Els Tolls sidewalks with an intervention on the road that will completely renew the sewage network and plant new trees; a tree stand that will be irrigated with regenerated water from the treatment plant.  

“This succession of interventions that we have carried out in the Els Tolls – Salt de l'Aigua neighborhood are creating a transformed residential space,” explained the mayor of Benidorm Toni Pérez, during a visit to today's works. “Now we are addressing a new phase, the renewal of the subsoil and the renaturalisation.” 

The renaturalisation works of Els Tolls, whose budget exceeds one and a half million euros, will act in the basement of the neighborhood: they will update the water networks by expanding the rainwater collectors, renewing the sanitation network and installing an irrigation network for the new plantations. In Italy, England, Holland and Portugal streets, new tree pits will be installed to create new shaded areas. The works that begin now will take special care with the sidewalk renovation actions already carried out, which will be respected in detail, acting very punctually on some very specific elements and points. 

“We have acted so far with great force in accessibility, improving pedestrian traffic and safe school routes, and now we are going to act on roads and increase the number of trees in a neighbourhood that is already green,” added Toni Pérez.  

“Renaturalizing the city means bringing better climatic conditions, improving the health index, improving coexistence in the summer periods with an investment that is part of the EDUSI Benidorm,” added Mayor Toni Pérez. “We renew rainwater and wastewater to connect with other types of actions, which will follow this one, such as the generation of that large roundabout at the confluence of Alfonso Puchades Avenue.” 

The works, like the rest of the EDUSI actions, will have minimal effects on road traffic. “Like all works, they will generate some inconvenience, but this action has been designed to inconvenience the residents as little as possible by allowing the connection of road traffic with all areas of the neighborhood,” explained the mayor. The renaturalisation works of Els Tolls will be carried out in different phases to avoid inconvenience to the neighbours. 

The improvement project in Els Tolls responds to the seventh line of action of Benidorm's DUSI strategy, which seeks to “improve the environmental quality and ecological footprint of the urban and peri-urban area” of Benidorm. The budget, which amounts to 1,524,487.68 euros, has aid from European ERDF funds of 762,243.84 euros.

ABOUT THE EDUSI OF BENIDORM:

The Pluriregional Operational Program of Spain 2014-2020, and the Sustainable Growth Operational Program (POCS) promote the DUSI strategy, of Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development, of which Benidorm, as established in the Resolution of May 4, 2018 published in The Official State Gazette (BOE) of the Order of the Third Call HFP/888/2017, has managed to opt for and obtain FEDER aid financing of 10 Million Euros, through its EDUSI BENIDORM strategy.

The EDUSI BENIDORM is made up of a series of thematic, specific, strategic and operational objectives, encompassed through 13 Lines of Action, whose social, environmental, economic and urban impact on the city aims to transform a delimited urban area of ​​​​the city into the to intervene and regenerate comprehensively, in order to produce a global impact and improvement in the city. 

Benidorm reinforces social and infrastructure investments in the first 100 days of administration

 

 

The Benidorm government has completed its first 100 days in office after the takeover of the local corporation on June 17, following the municipal elections held on May 28. One hundred days in which the acquired commitments advanced by the city's mayor, Toni Pérez, have been maintained and intensified as soon as he was elected.

 

Those commitments had to do with the vocation to continue building “a welcoming, open, inclusive and supportive Benidorm” with a development that is based on actions based on “sustainability, innovation, accessibility and governance” with the aim of advancing “towards social, environmental and economic sustainability.” Hence, the mayor stressed today that the purpose is to “achieve accessibility at all levels” and government action is closely linked “to contact with citizens.”

 

In these first hundred days, the mayor indicated, the “reinforcement of social investments has continued with aid to the groups and entities that need it most, as well as the improvement and renewal of infrastructure necessary to have an increasingly better city. ”. For this reason, Pérez has described this first balance as “very positive and in complete harmony with the commitments made.”  

 

Thus, in terms of aid, the granting of these has reached the main groups and entities in Benidorm. Among them, in this 100-day period, they have been granted to vulnerable families, SMEs and the self-employed and the funds for entrepreneurial projects have been doubled. Appropriations have also been allocated for the expenses of business entities, for the purchase of school supplies, for music schools and students, for health entities and an amount has even been allocated for cooperation with developing countries. This aid chapter includes the million euros directed to the hotels that participated in the 2022 Imserso campaign.

 

Meanwhile, local infrastructure has continued with the same pace of improvement and renewal that had already begun years ago. In relation to the Water Cycle, in these hundred days an action has been initiated in Bernat de Sarrià to reduce the risk of flooding, accessibility has been improved and the infrastructure of Beniardá Avenue has been renewed, renovation works are being carried out of the pumping of wastewater on Severo Ochoa Avenue, new electric power generation motors have been installed in the WWTP and the rainwater drainage works in the Xixo and Foietes ravines have been completed.

 

The local public space has also experienced significant improvements and actions with the creation of a new green area in La Cala, the improvement of pedestrian accessibility on Murcia Street, maintenance and conservation actions for urban furniture, new charging points for electric vehicles (Severo Ochoa) or emblematic actions such as the commissioning of the new Levante catenary.

 

Equally notable are the actions that have been carried out to reduce electricity consumption and in favor of the use of renewable energies. Among them, the completion of the installation of photovoltaic panels in eight schools, in the Palau d'Esports and in the Guillermo Amor sports city stands out, the latter thanks to the achievement of European funds.

 

Precisely, good management when it comes to obtaining money from the European Union has allowed, among other actions, to begin work on the Mediation Center, to have approved the renovation of the public space between Maravall and Jaime I streets, the acquisition of seven flats for social housing or the next actions to reinforce fires in the El Moralet area.

 

But, without a doubt, the most successful management in this sense has been the achievement of three million euros of Next Generation funds for the execution of a macro renaturalization project called 'Green and Water: Rooting Benidorm in its Natural Environment'. A project that includes more than 15 actions to increase green surfaces, protect the entire forest mass, and permeate the urban edge with orchard and crop areas. In short, the mayor explained, “a renaturalization project to continue making Benidorm a more resilient city against the effects of climate change.” The one from Benidorm was one of the 19 proposals selected nationally from among the 64 presented.

 

On the other hand, the contract for the Bus Station has also been awarded after years of litigation and the drafting of the new contract for parks and gardens and the contract for cleaning municipal buildings has begun.

 

Benidorm, likewise, will continue to be a reference in Europe thanks to its commitment to intelligence. For this reason, the city will be part of the European network of smart cities and will incorporate a flow monitoring system on the beaches that will make it possible to know the degree of occupancy of the beaches every day of the year. The project, which is already in the first phase of implementation, has operated during the months of July and August on a stretch of just over 1.5 kilometers of Poniente beach.

 

Other areas in which notable action has been taken in these hundred days are those of Mobility and Road Cleaning with initiatives such as the reopening of the underground containers of Carrascos or campaigns to clean rural roads and cliffs, as well as other extraordinary cleaning of neighbourhoods during the summer or a washing plan with reused water from private pools. In terms of Mobility, the implementation of a map of the time spent on pedestrian or bicycle trips, an intelligent parking system for bicycles or the improvement of mobility at the confluence of Europa Avenue with Jaén Street stands out. Furthermore, in this sense, Armada Española Avenue has been reopened after the completion of the hydraulic infrastructure renovation works.

Finally, the government team has undertaken other actions that cover other areas such as the completion of 96 niches in the San Jaime cemetery, the installation of the new artificial grass in the field attached to the Guillermo Amor stadium, the celebration of the 'Exemplary Neighbor' award, the accessibility and security of the surroundings of the Ermita de la Virgen del Mar have been improved and the 'castellum' of Tossal de La Cala has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest.

 

Similarly, in other areas the local government has promoted the carrying out of training actions organized by the AMPAs, has renewed the lighting in the Horta area and has managed to renew the 'Q' and 'S' flags of the ICTE for the beaches of the city, as well as innovative exhibitions, conferences, photographic exhibitions and shows included in the cultural programming. 

Benidorm advocates reducing the carbon footprint of tourist activity as much as possible

 

 

The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, and the Minister of Tourism, Nuria Montes, participated in the central event of the activities organized by the City Council on the occasion of World Car-Free Day, within the European Mobility Week. Both have been part of the conference "Tourism and sustainable mobility. The Benidorm model", which took place in the Torrejó Municipal Building and where they defended tourist activity, and especially the local tourism industry, as "one of the most committed” to respect and care for the environment. Along with them, the general director of Transport of the Generalitat Valenciana, Manuel Ríos, was also present. 

 

The first mayor of Benidorm has been the first to speak to defend the mobility policies that the City Council has been developing in recent years and that have contributed to making Benidorm “an increasingly friendly destination, especially in actions such as the implementation of low-emission zones, giving priority to pedestrians, soft speed, or the promotion of public transport or travel on foot", which "has translated into awards and recognitions", such as those collected yesterday by the mayor at the headquarters of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge. “But these awards are worthless if in your daily life you are not committed to, from mobility, acting locally,

Toni Pérez took advantage of this context to give attendees a reflection: “Life happens on foot and it is on foot when we share, when things happen and when tourist activity occurs.” At this point, the mayor of Benidorm recalled that tourism "has been working for years to make its activity as safe as possible and to generate the least impact on our territory and our planet", "especially after that strategic plan that we configured in the fall of 2015 and that has allowed us much more sustainable mobility in the city, which is at the same time the destination.” 

 

After this intervention, the Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes, recalled that Benidorm “was not only visionary and pioneer in its definition as the first tourist destination in our country, but also began to talk about sustainability and mobility practically when no one still handled these concepts.” For this reason, the regional official has said that "when you go to other cities, you realize everything that has been done in Benidorm and done well", giving as examples the fact that it is "a very comfortable city to walk." ” or the layout of an “absolutely pioneering and safe” bicycle lane for users of this two-wheeled vehicle. 

 

The councilor has reviewed actions in favor of sustainability that have been developed with municipal impetus but also from the private sphere in many tourism companies, but has recognized that tourist transport continues to be the cause of 8% of all emissions. CO2 that are carried out throughout the European Union and that represent “around 4.5 million tons per year.” And although she has defended that airline companies are “working to reduce their carbon footprint, as the hotel industry has been doing for years,” the head of Tourism has defended that “there is still much to do.”

 

Finally, Nuria Montes has highlighted the charging network for electric vehicles deployed by Benidorm throughout its entire urban fabric, something that, in her opinion, will be a differentiating element so that "many tourists who are users of electric cars come to visit Benidorm" and has provided "all the support" of the Carlos Mazón Consell to continue deploying more charging points and "to contribute to actions that make our tourism and hotel industry even more sustainable." 

 

The last to participate was the general director of Transport of the Generalitat, Manuel Ríos, who has claimed the urban and sustainable mobility plans (PMUS) as the instrument to develop a series of actions so that cities consume less fuel and there are fewer cars, after which he has put Benidorm as a paradigm: “It has the great advantage that its City Council already has its homework done with the Low Emissions Zone. "It has been pioneering because there has been a very important technical and political team, which has worked hard and has had a very clear union to make decisions and solve problems." 

 

Closure of thede Armada Española and free transfers

In addition to this day on sustainable mobility and tourism, during this Friday restrictions will also be applied to road traffic on Avenida de la Armada Española, where from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. residents and public transport will be restricted, within the events on the occasion of World Car-Free Day. 

Likewise, in a joint initiative between the City Council and the public transport concessionaire Grupo Avanza, transfers between urban bus lines within the municipality of Benidorm will be free.

Benidorm will launch new aid for SMEs and the self-employed

 

 

Benidorm City Council is going to launch a new aid package for SMEs and the self-employed, in this case through a subsidy of 647,278 euros from the Provincial Council of Alicante and which "aims to compensate companies and entrepreneurs for the effects that the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine has had on economic activity.” 

This was announced today by the Councilor for Employment and Local Development, Mónica Gómez, who reported that "the bases that will govern this call for aid are already being prepared, which will set, among other issues, the maximum amounts to which can be opted, the eligible expenses and the requirements that the beneficiary SMEs and self-employed workers must meet.” 

Gómez recalled that “the support of the Benidorm City Council for the local productive fabric has been constant in the last three years in which the economy has been severely shaken first by the pandemic and later by the exorbitant increase in the price of energy and of the Ukrainian war. 

“Since March 2020 – he pointed out – the City Council has mobilized more than 20 million euros to, in successive calls, help companies, self-employed workers, SMEs and micro-SMEs from all economic sectors in the city; a direct economic injection to which are added the municipal rates and public prices that have been subsidized or stopped being collected.”

The councilor added that "during this time, financial support has also been received from the Provincial Council, which has made it possible to increase the resources made available to the local productive fabric to contribute to recovery." m, Nuria Montes; and the general director of Transport and Logistics of the Generalitat, Manuel Ríos.

 

 

Mobility measures on a map the time it takes to walk from one area of ​​Benidorm to another to promote pedestrian travel

 

 

Benidorm City Council has presented an innovative project that seeks to promote pedestrian or bicycle travel through the city, within the events framed in the European Mobility Week. It is called 'Metrominuto / Biciminuto' and has consisted of the preparation of a plan in which different urban routes have been drawn, with common and very common itineraries among citizens, which incorporates the time that a pedestrian and a cyclist. They may take time to travel through them. The mayor of the city, Toni Pérez, and the Councilor for Mobility, Francis Muñoz, have been in charge of presenting this initiative, which aims for "the average citizen to know the journeys and know how much time it will take to go from one point to another”, under the motto “Benidorm. “Cities that walk.” 

 

The mayor of Mobility has detailed that this plan has been prepared as a result of joint work between the municipal departments of Mobility and Engineering, to complement other projects such as the Low Emissions Zone. Likewise, he has indicated that now, once presented, it will be distributed on the screens throughout the municipality and will be posted on the municipal website, from where any citizen will be able to download it on their mobile phone to have it at their fingertips and go following many of these routes. 

 

Specifically, the plan includes more than a hundred routes and itineraries throughout all the neighborhoods of the city, from the Tamarindos promenade, in La Cala, to La Cruz or Punta del Cavall, in the natural park of La Cala. Serra Gelada, also passing through the surroundings of the theme parks or the Hermitage of Sanz. Muñoz explained that itineraries have been designed “that are not closed, but climbable, so that distances are interspersed.” According to the mayor, this formula “allows each route to be segmented and each citizen can refine it according to their preferences or hobbies.” 

 

In addition to pedestrian traffic, the map "also relies on the cycling infrastructure that Benidorm has with the Moralet Park cycle paths, the city's cycling ring and the Serra Gelada cycle paths that take us to Albir", he highlighted. Francis Muñoz. In short, according to the mayor, the objective is “to make people aware that walking or cycling is not only healthy but also will not take much time.”

Other scheduled activities

Among the activities that the Benidorm City Council is carrying out on the occasion of the European Mobility Week, this Tuesday the 'Brico Bici' workshop was also held for the students of the Bernat de Sarrià and Beatriu Fajardo de Mendoza institutes.

 

Tomorrow, Wednesday, the 20th, the activities will focus on 'Road Education for the little ones' and will begin at 9 a.m., at the Salt de l'Aigua Children's Traffic Park. The 'Brico Bici' will move during this day to the IES Pere Maria Orts i Bosch and on Thursday the 21st, to the IES l'Almadrava.

 

Finally, Friday, September 22, will be 'Car-Free Day' in which, from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., traffic on Paseo de Poniente will be restricted to residents and public transport. Also at 10 in the morning, the El Torrejó Municipal Center will host the meeting 'Tourism and sustainable mobility, Benidorm model' in which the mayor of Benidorm and president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Toni Pérez, will participate as speakers; the Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes; and the general director of Transport and Logistics of the Generalitat, Manuel Ríos.

 

 

Bicycle Sunday in Benidorm within the European Mobility Week

 

 

Benidorm joins, once again, the European Mobility Week, which is celebrated every year between September 16 and 22, in which almost 3,000 cities and towns from across the continent collaborate to promote public transport and other forms of transportation. more sustainable mobility.

 

The theme chosen by the European Commission for the 2023 campaign is 'Energy efficiency' and the motto for this and future years will be 'Combine and move!'

 

The councilor for the area, Francis Muñoz, has today unveiled the program of activities that will begin to take place tomorrow to "instill to residents the advantages of using sustainable transport and its benefits for health and the environment, in particular public transport, bicycle and traveling on foot” with an eye toward building “a better, more comfortable and friendly city for everyone.” 

 

The program will start today, Saturday the 16th, with a tour of the cycle-pedestrian paths of El Moralet Park, starting at 10:00 in the morning. The weekend activities will be completed on Sunday, a day dedicated to cycling, with a route that will depart, also at 10:00 a.m., from Avenida de Madrid to the Torre de les Caletes in the Serra Gelada Natural Park.

 

On Monday the 18th, the Plaza of Their Majesties the Kings of Spain will be the setting where, within the 'Green Car Day', in an open day, the clean vehicles of municipal public services will be exhibited, starting from 11:00 a.m. Likewise, on Monday the 'Brico Bici' will begin, a traveling workshop of tips and basic mechanics aimed at the youngest, taught by Tao Bike, which will take place every day between 12:00 and 14:00, this time at the IES Mediterranean.

 

The day on Tuesday the 19th will be dedicated to pedestrians with the presentation, at 11:00, in the morning of 'Metrominuto / Biciminuto'. An information panel that explains to residents how long it takes to walk the distance between two specific points in the city. The 'Brico Bici' will be aimed at the students of the IES Bernat de Sarrià and Beatriu Fajardo de Mendoza.

On Wednesday the 20th, the day's activities will focus on 'Road education for the little ones'. The activities will begin at 9:00, in the Salt de l'Aigua Children's Traffic Park. The 'Brico Bici' will move this day to the IES Pere Maria Orts i Bosch and on Thursday the 21st, to the IES l'Almadrava.

 

Friday the 22nd will be 'Car Free Day' in which, from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., traffic on Paseo de Poniente will be restricted to residents and public transport. Also, at 10:00 in the morning, the El Torrejó Municipal Center will host the meeting 'Tourism and sustainable mobility, Benidorm model' in which the mayor of Benidorm and president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Toni Pérez, the councilor of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes and the general director of Transport and Logistics of the Generalitat, Manuel Ríos.

 

 

Benidorm takes part in the European Mobility Week 2023

 

 

Benidorm joins, once again, the European Mobility Week, which is celebrated every year between September 16 and 22, in which almost 3,000 cities and towns from across the continent collaborate to promote public transport and other forms of transportation. more sustainable mobility.

 

The theme chosen by the European Commission for the 2023 campaign is 'Energy efficiency' and the motto for this and future years will be 'Combine and move!'

 

The councilor for the area, Francis Muñoz, has today unveiled the program of activities that will begin to take place tomorrow to "instill to residents the advantages of using sustainable transport and its benefits for health and the environment, in particular public transport, bicycle and traveling on foot” with an eye toward building “a better, more comfortable and friendly city for everyone.” 

 

The program will start today, Saturday the 16th, with a tour of the cycle-pedestrian paths of El Moralet Park, starting at 10:00 in the morning. The weekend activities will be completed on Sunday, a day dedicated to cycling, with a route that will depart, also at 10:00 a.m., from Avenida de Madrid to the Torre de les Caletes in the Serra Gelada Natural Park.

 

On Monday the 18th, the Plaza of Their Majesties the Kings of Spain will be the setting where, within the 'Green Car Day', in an open day, the clean vehicles of municipal public services will be exhibited, starting from 11:00 a.m. Likewise, on Monday the 'Brico Bici' will begin, a traveling workshop of tips and basic mechanics aimed at the youngest, taught by Tao Bike, which will take place every day between 12:00 and 14:00, this time at the IES Mediterranean.

 

The day on Tuesday the 19th will be dedicated to pedestrians with the presentation, at 11:00, in the morning of 'Metrominuto / Biciminuto'. An information panel that explains to residents how long it takes to walk the distance between two specific points in the city. The 'Brico Bici' will be aimed at the students of the IES Bernat de Sarrià and Beatriu Fajardo de Mendoza.

On Wednesday the 20th, the day's activities will focus on 'Road education for the little ones'. The activities will begin at 9:00, in the Salt de l'Aigua Children's Traffic Park. The 'Brico Bici' will move this day to the IES Pere Maria Orts i Bosch and on Thursday the 21st, to the IES l'Almadrava.

 

Friday the 22nd will be 'Car Free Day' in which, from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., traffic on Paseo de Poniente will be restricted to residents and public transport. Also, at 10:00 in the morning, the El Torrejó Municipal Center will host the meeting 'Tourism and sustainable mobility, Benidorm model' in which the mayor of Benidorm and president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Toni Pérez, the councilor of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes and the general director of Transport and Logistics of the Generalitat, Manuel Ríos.

 

 

Tickets for the Cyclocross World Cup to be held in Benidorm on January 21 are on sale

 

 

Tickets for the UCI-Benidorm Costa Blanca Cyclocross World Cup, which will be held in the tourist capital on January 21, are now on sale, as reported today by the organization of the event. After its successful premiere on January 22, with the participation of stars of the caliber of Wout van Aert, Mathieu Van der Poel, Fem van Empel and Marianne Vos, the El Moralet and Foietes parks will once again host an event that brought together in debut to some 13,000 people to enjoy a Sunday of party and sport under the Alicante sun. 

 

“The public has been asking us to open ticket sales for a month or more,” says Pascual Momparler, head of Momparler Cycling and the UCI Cyclocross World Cup – Benidorm Costa Blanca. “There was a desire for Benidorm, and that is important because it shows that something was done well last year. People liked the atmosphere, they liked the participation, they liked the organisation... and that makes us proud. That's why we prepare for the next edition with more enthusiasm if possible. This year there will be more Fan Zones and new VIP zones. In addition, we are working to once again have the best cyclists in the world on the Costa Blanca. I encourage everyone to buy their tickets and come enjoy an authentic weekend of cycling with us.”

 

For his part, the Councilor for Sports, Javier Jordá, has pointed out that “for Benidorm it is a pleasure and a challenge to once again host this world event that left such a good taste in the mouths at the beginning of this year among the fans who followed the event. live from the El Moralet and Foietes parks, and also among those who enjoyed it on television.” “The city is going to give its best again so that the best national and international cyclocross cyclists can enjoy the route of the event and Benidorm,” he added. 

 

As reported by the organization, in the 2024 edition of the UCI Cyclocross World Cup – Benidorm Costa Blanca there will be three types of tickets for adults: the General, which will cost 15 euros from today until December 20; the VIP, with food, drinks and a privileged location with views of the finish line; and the Super VIP, which includes 'gourmet' products and parking next to the circuit. Children between 7 and 14 years old will pay entry for the VIP and Super VIP areas, while for all children under 14 years old who want to access the General area and children up to 7 years old who want to enter the areas accompanied by an adult VIP and Super VIP, a Children's ticket of only 2 euros will be available, the proceeds of which will be donated entirely to local charitable associations.

 

Tickets for the Cyclocross World Cup – Benidorm Costa Blanca 2024 can be purchased on the portal Click Here , as well as on the official site of the race, https://benidormcx.es. ;

 

The first edition of the event ended with victories for Fem van Empel and Mathieu Van der Poel in the Elite women's and men's races, respectively.

 

 

More than 8,100 children and adolescents return to classrooms in Benidorm

 

 

 

 

More than 8,100 children and adolescents have returned today to the Infant, Primary and Secondary Education classrooms in Benidorm after the summer holidays, in a day that has developed without incident and that has been marked by the excitement and nerves of many families. Mayor Toni Pérez has welcomed this 2023-2024 academic year together with the Councilor for Education, Maite Moreno, at CEIP Els Tolls, the school with the most students in the municipality. 

 

This centre is one of the eight schools in which the Benidorm City Council has carried out in recent months the installation of photovoltaic panels on the roof to generate energy for self-consumption, with the aim of saving on the electricity bill and further reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere of 375 tons per year. The project, which has also been developed in four other municipal buildings, including the Les Fontanelles Municipal Nursery School, has involved an investment of 1,045,450.06 euros. 

 

Likewise, the Local Government Board has approved this Monday an item of 157,794.40 euros to subsidize school transportation for students in Infant, Primary, Secondary and post-compulsory education at the centers located in the Salt de l'Aigüa school complex – the public schools Mestre Gaspar López and Gabriel Miró and the IES Pere Maria Orts i Bosch, Bernat de Sarrià, L'Almadrava and Beatriu Fajardo – and the IES Mediterrània that do not meet the requirements to benefit from the Generalitat scholarships. The expense will be applied in two phases: from this month of September to December 31, 2023, with a total expense of 63,963.93 euros; and from January 1, 2024 until the end of the next academic year, for which another 93,830.47 euros will be invested. 

 

These investments are added to other aid that the City Council has already implemented, implemented or will be implemented to reduce, as far as possible, the expense that returning to school represents for many households. "At the City Council we maintain our commitment to the families of Benidorm, making help and support measures available to them, and increasing them according to needs, especially where no other administration reaches," said the mayor. 

 

More Kindergarten and Primary classrooms

The first day of classes took place without any notable incidents in the thirteen schools and five public institutes in the city. In them, just over 8,100 minors, 5,500 in Infant and Primary Education and another 2,600 in Secondary, to which are added those who are enrolled in post-compulsory Baccalaureate or Vocational Training, have reunited with their friends after the summer holidays or have incorporated for the first time into the classrooms, in the case of 2 and 3-year-old Early Childhood Education boys and girls. 

 

The public schools of Benidorm have expanded their educational offer this year with the creation of three new Early Childhood Education units: one for 2-year-olds at CEIP La Cala; one for P4 at CEIP Vasco Núñez de Balboa and another for P5 at CEIP Miguel Hernández, as explained by the Councilor for Education, Maite Moreno. In addition, the mayor has indicated that the creation of another Primary classroom has also been requested in the CEIP Mestre Gaspar López and that a response is awaited by the Department of Education.

Hundreds of people celebrate Benidorm Pride with a massive parade

 

 

 

 

Hundreds of people have filled the streets of Benidorm this Saturday to witness or parade in the Parade, the central act of Benidorm Pride, celebrations organized by the LGBTIQ+ collective and which represent the culmination of the most important Pride weeks in Europe. The mayor Toni Pérez, together with the Valencian Generalitat Tourism Minister, Nuria Montes, have joined this protest parade, which they have followed from various points along the route together with other members of the municipal executive. 

 

Rainbow flags, costume, floats, trucks and many people walking have shown the most diverse and welcoming face of Benidorm, a European benchmark for LGBTIQ+ tourism. Not in vain, the City Council, Visit Benidorm and the organisation have estimated the number of visitors who have come to the city expressly to experience these days of festivities and vindication at more than 20,000 people, mostly from the United Kingdom, but also from other points of Spain and Europe, with stays that in many cases extend up to fifteen days. 

 

The parade has covered a stretch of Paseo de Levante and Avenida del Mediterráneo, Plaza de la Hispanidad and Parque de l'Aigüera, until it reached the Julio Iglesias Amphitheatre, where the party continued throughout the evening.

 

Among the participants, one of the most photographed floats has been that of the Benidorm Fest, on board of which was Sharonne, the famous 'drag queen' who participated in the last edition of the contest and who has shared the limelight with a replica of the microphone which is given to the winners of this contest. The mayor of Festivals and Events, Jesús Carrobles, explained that the Benidorm Fest wanted to be present at it to "accompany an audience that is traditionally enthusiastic about Eurovision and also about the Fest and that year after year participates massively in Benidorm Pride". 

 

Likewise, the city has also illuminated the new section of the Paseo de Levante catenary with rainbow colors, as a sign of recognition of a local group and a tourist market loyal to Benidorm for decades and which is part of the city's success. as destination. 

 

After a week of parties and various activities, Benidorm Pride comes to an end tomorrow, Sunday, with the Pride at the Palace party, which will take place in the emblematic Benidorm Palace party room. 

 

 

Benidorm implements a monitoring system to measure the influx of people to its beaches

 

 

 

 

Benidorm City Council has implemented a monitoring system through cameras to measure the influx of people to its beaches, thus knowing the degree of occupancy of the beaches every day of the year. The project, which is in the first phase of implementation, has already operated during the months of July and August on a stretch of just over 1.5 kilometers of

 

Poniente beach, as explained this morning by the mayor, Toni Pérez. , during the presentation of the project and its first results. A presentation that was made in the Smart Office of the City Council and in which the councilors of Beaches and Innovation, Mónica Gómez and Aida García Mayor, participated; the chief engineer Vicente Mayor; and Mª Carmen Azorín, municipal Innovation agent.

 

The mayor explained that this first phase of the project 'Image and data analysis system in areas of high tourist influx' is included in the Tourism Sustainability Plan 'Benidorm DTI + Seguro', has involved an investment of 150,000 euros and places the city at “the forefront of innovation”. 
 

The measurement of flows of people on the beaches, Toni Pérez has stated, “is one of the actions and options that are talked about in many congresses” but that in Benidorm “materializes as a use case”, delving into “the path undertaken with our conversion into the first certified Smart Tourist Destination in the world.” 

 

The project has consisted of “the installation of 20 capacity control cameras in the stretch of Poniente beach that goes from Paseo de Colón to the Vela Blanca ravine, at the confluences of Armada Española and Vicente Llorca Alós avenues.” 

 

As detailed by the technicians, the cameras have built-in object counting and control software, which, anonymously, detects moving people until they leave the camera's viewing range.

 

The cameras collect information and display it in real time on a 'dashboard' in which the number of people entering or leaving the beach is counted.

 

Benidorm Fest will be present at the Pride parade

 

 

 

 

Benidorm Fest will be very present this Saturday in the city's Pride parade, as it will have its own float that arrives "with surprises", according to what the Councilor for Festivals and Events, Jesús Carrobles, announced today. A parade, the Parade, which brings together thousands of people along its route, which will begin at 5:00 p.m. from Rincón de Loix and will run along Paseo de Levante and a section of Mediterranean Avenue until reaching the Julio Iglesias auditorium in the Parque de l'Aigüera. Already at the venue, the main Benidorm Pride party will be celebrated. 

 

Although these surprises were not revealed, Carrobles has slipped that "on the Benidorm Fest float there could be a face linked to the musical contest" that will again be held in the city at the end of January and beginning of February, thus marking its third edition. 

 

The mayor explained that "the Benidorm Fest wanted to be present at this festive event and to demand the support of the LGBTIQ+ collective, an audience traditionally enthusiastic about Eurovision and also about the Fest and that year after year participates massively in Benidorm Pride, an event that has been celebrating since last Monday, which closes the European Pride calendar and brings together more than 20,000 people in the city.” 

The Espai d'Art of the City Council hosts a painting exhibition within Benidorm Pride

 

 

 

 

The Espai d'Art of the Benidorm City Council, located in the lobby of the Town Hall, hosts the painting exhibition Vibe Arte, by the Bulgarian-born artist Martin Georgiev Binev, starting this Tuesday. It is part of the program of events organized in the city on the occasion of the Benidorm Pride Festival, which is expected to attract more than 20,000 people to the city throughout this week, both nationals and those arriving from different European countries. 

 

The mayor of Igualdad, Ángela Zaragozí, was in charge of opening this exhibition in the company of Santos Torres, one of the organizers of “Pride”, and the artist himself. The exhibition is made up of around twenty abstract art paintings, made with mixed techniques, where Martin Georgiev uses lines, strokes and colors of different tones to express feelings, dreams and emotions, with works that go from the warmest and softest tones to others with strong tones and personality. It can be visited at the Espai d'Art throughout this week. 

 

During the inauguration, the Councilor for Equality thanked the organizers of Benidorm Pride for their commitment to also programming cultural events throughout this week beyond the purely festive ones and those to promote the LGBTIQ+ community and encouraged the public to visit the exhibition . 

 

Aside from this activity, the events of the Benidorm Pride Festival are taking place throughout this week, with themed parties, numerous events in the more than 40 'gayfriendly' venues scattered throughout the town center and the great Parade, the parade-demonstration. which will be held the afternoon of next Saturday, September 9, and in which the participation of more than twenty floats, American heads and vintage cars and motorcycles is planned. As in previous editions, the Parade will depart at 5:00 p.m. from Rincón de Loix and will travel along Paseo de Levante and a section of Mediterranean Avenue until reaching the Julio Iglesias auditorium in Parque de l'Aigüera, where the main festival of the event will take place. Benidorm Pride. 

 

With the “Pride” of Benidorm the European calendar of Pride festivities closes. 

Pradas announces the processing of the new  a new natural resources management plan of Serra Gelada

 

 

 

 

The Minister of Environment, Water, Infrastructure and Territory, Salomé Pradas, has announced that the Generalitat "is going to start the procedures to approve a new Natural Resource Management Plan for the Serra Gelada Natural Park, which had expired since the year 2015".

 

Pradas made this announcement after his visit to Benidorm City Hall, where he explained that the Council's commitment is "to draw up a new document that has the maximum consensus and combines aspects as important as conservation, utilization and enjoyment ordered from this protected space".

 

Along these lines, the Minister has pointed out that "the defense of the environment cannot be incompatible, and it is not, with the development and agricultural uses of our territory. Therefore, we will analyze the council's proposal to allow the creation of rafts for agricultural use in the surroundings of the natural park".

 

80 million to improve the railway infrastructure

During the work meeting, Salomé Pradas informed that the Generalitat will execute the comprehensive tram connection of La Marina. A project - he said - "was kept in the drawers and will now be worked on and promoted from the dialogue with the affected municipalities to make it a reality this legislature". 

 

Proof of this - he indicated - "is that we are already improving the infrastructure of these lines, as a preliminary step to the future connection of La Marina". In this sense, Pradas has informed that this September "three major actions will be awarded with a budget of 80 million euros that will provide the Alicante TRAM railway service with greater capacity, regularity, and will improve the frequencies of passage and will be more environmentally friendly".

 

This is the duplication of track and electrification on lines 1, the electrification of line 9 and the technical crossing and track duplication of the Albir-Altea section. Actions that, as indicated by Pradas, "will have a great environmental benefit because it eliminates the use of the diesel engine on line 9, which will generate less greenhouse gases and reduce the acoustic impact".

 

Another of the projects that has been unlocked is that of EPSAR to start the adaptation works of the drives and pumping stations between Benidorm and Alfàs del Pi. "After 8 years of inaction by the previous Council, we will start these works which have a budget of 3.3 million euros and which will begin when the high summer season ends in Benidorm at the request of the council", said the councillor.

 

After his working meeting with the mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, Pradas visited the Serra Gelada Natural Park and the municipality of La Nucia. 

Salomé Pradas has pointed out that "this Council is going to attend to all the municipalities of this Community above dogmatism and ideological impositions". the management of the previous Council, which governed with its back to the province".

 

"Today we come with tangible commitments such as the regulation of the a new 'Natural Resource Management Plan' after 8 years, an investment of 80 million in the modernization of the FGV railway infrastructure in the Marina Baixa, the urgent putting into service of the metropolitan transport that was in danger for more than 200,000 users, as well as new sanitation improvements blocked during two legislatures", he added.

 

The head of Medio Ambiente has indicated that this visit is "one more step in our attention to municipalism, because it means giving priority to the interests and needs of citizens"., which has expired since 2015, and undertakes to execute this legislature the integral tram connection of La Marina

 

 

Benidorm Local Police withdraws 5 electric scooters in August for failing to comply with the regulations in a campaign of random controls

 

 

 

 

Benidorm Local Police has withdrawn five electric scooters so far in August for not complying with current municipal regulations. These actions are part of a campaign of random controls arising from an agreement between the local City Council and the Directorate General of Traffic.

 

The controls have been carried out randomly throughout the month and lasting ten minutes in different parts of the town. The result has been that of five scooters withdrawn by the agents after detecting that they were not complying with the regulations in cases such as lacking compulsory insurance or exceeding the maximum speed established for this type of vehicle due to having been tampered with.

 

The Councilor for Citizen Security, Jesús Carrobles, has indicated that these controls "add to the ordinary activity of the Local Police who denounce the owners of scooters when they do not comply with the ordinance for different aspects such as speeding, driving through improper places or not wearing a helmet, for example”.

 

Carrobles recalled that Benidorm is a "pioneering" city in the regulation of these vehicles "thanks to the municipal ordinance approved in 2019". In this sense, he has stressed that in Benidorm scooters must have insurance, rear light, front bell and users are required to wear a vest and helmet, in addition to driving through areas such as the bike lane where they do not coexist with pedestrians.

 

It is also prohibited to drive with headphones connected, to do so at a speed greater than 30 km/h or to drive on sidewalks, paved walks, parks or pedestrian areas.

 

The ordinance also establishes that the minimum age to ride a scooter is 16 years and its use is for one person. In the event that people are transported with an approved device such as type C1, the drivers must be of legal age.

 

The councilor has affirmed that "we work so that the use of scooters is in accordance with the ordinance in all cases" and on this he added that the controls "are not only made on the drivers, but also on the scooter rental companies because they also have to comply with the regulations”.

 

On the other hand, according to data from the Local Police, so far in August eight accidents involving scooters have been reported.

 

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