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Benidorm, L'Alfàs and Vila Joiosa all recive a 'Blue Flag' award

 

Benidorm

Benidorm City Council has now received the 'Blue Path 2025' award, which the Association for Environmental and Consumer Education (ADEAC) granted to El Moralet Park last January. The Councilor for the Environment, Mónica Gómez, was responsible for collecting the award at a ceremony held today at the headquarters of the Murcia Region Tourism Institute. The award will soon be displayed in El Moralet Park. 

 

Gómez noted that "Benidorm is launching the 'Blue Path'" and added that "on an environmental and tourism level, it is very interesting to have this award, which recognizes the work done to conserve and restore the trails and paths of El Moralet, which have become a valuable resource for the dissemination and promotion of environmental education and for enjoying the natural environment with sustainable recreational, sports, and tourism activities year-round." 

 

In this regard, the Councilor for Parks and Gardens, José Ramón González de Zárate, stated that "just a few years ago, the El Moralet area was a little-known and little-visited space despite its environmental value." "Now, after a significant investment, this large green space located just a few meters from the urban landscape is fully available to the public and has become a must-see for those who love walking and enjoying nature, whether residents or visitors." Vila Joiosa is the only municipality in the Marina Baixa that has two blue trails that recognize the commitment to the recovery, protection and enhancement of these natural itineraries.

 

The Councilor for the Environment and Beaches, Carlos Soler, yesterday collected the Sender Blau 2025 flags for the Colada de la Costa and the Volta al Cantal. Both recognitions were awarded by the Association of Environmental and Consumer Education at the ceremony for the Sender Blau 2025 Flags held in Murcia. In this edition, the blue flags were awarded to 154 trails throughout Spain.

 

 

Alfaz del Pi

The Albir Lighthouse Route has been recognised once again with the 2025 Blue Trail environmental award.

The Councilor for Tourism and Environment of the Alfàs del Pi City Council, Luis Morant, has collected the 2025 Blue Path award for the trail to the Albir Lighthouse, a prize created by the Environmental and Consumer Education Association (ADEAC) program, at an event held at the headquarters of the Murcia Region Tourism Institute.

 

The number of Blue Trails awarded in 2025 rises to 154, 30 of which are new. The network exceeds 1,000 kilometers. The Blue Trails are present in 129 municipalities in 21 provinces and 11 Autonomous Communities.

 

The Blue Trails are ideal places for raising environmental awareness, understood as a tool that contributes to social change, explains Councilor Alfasino, who emphasises, "Among our priorities are policies for the recovery, conservation, and dissemination of our natural and cultural heritage. Proof of this is that some are just now beginning to address these aspects; our route to the lighthouse has been designated since 2013."

The objective of the ADEAC program is to recognise, through the Blue Path award, the recovery and enhancement of trails and itineraries throughout the country, transforming them into valuable resources for environmental interpretation and the enjoyment of nature.

 

The route to the Albir Lighthouse has been part of Spain's Blue Trails network since 2013. A spectacular 2.5-kilometer route that runs through the first maritime-terrestrial natural park in the Valencian Community: the Serra Gelada, with a protected area of ​​more than 5,500 hectares. "The route to the Albir Lighthouse, the second most visited in the Generalitat's Network of Natural Spaces, is ideal for hiking, a route that is completely accessible for people with mobility issues," emphasized Luis Miguel Morant, Councilor for Environment and Tourism.

 

The route allows visitors to enjoy spectacular views of the Mediterranean Sea, the cliffs, the Caletas del Metge and the Mina... A route that perfectly combines nature and history, with the mines of Phoenician origin and later Roman exploitation from which ochre was extracted, the cistern, the Bombarda Tower or the Faro de l'Albir Interpretation Centre, opened to the public in 2011 by the City Council of l'Alfàs, where the life of the ancient lighthouse keepers is recreated and the rich fauna and flora of the natural park is visible.

 

L'Alfàs has been working for years to restore, preserve, and promote its natural, cultural, heritage, and intangible heritage. Thanks to this work, the municipality has earned eight awards, including the Blue Flag, the Blue Trail, and the Blue Center, which place it among Spain's tourist destinations that are most respectful of the environment, its conservation, and its promotion.

 

Specifically, l'Alfàs has six Blue Centers. These are buildings and spaces of great historical, cultural, and natural value, restored for the community's leisure and recreation, but also for a better understanding of the spaces and their surroundings, said Luis Miguel Morant. These are the Faro de l'Albir Interpretation Center, since 2013; the Carabineros Environmental Education Center, since 2017; the Los Carrascos CIPM (Civil Protection Center for the Environment), since 2018; the Antigua Cantera de l'Albir Environmental Interpretation Center, since 2020; the Villa Romana Open-Air Museum, since 2021; and the Espai Cultural Escoles Velles (Cultural Space for Schools), since 2023.

 

 

 

Vila Joiosa

Vila Joiosa is the only municipality in the Marina Baixa that has two blue trails, which Soler considers to be “the result of the work and commitment on the part of the Department of the Environment in the recovery, environmental protection and enhancement of our natural environment”.

 

The Colada de la Costa trail revalidates its title for the second consecutive year and this year the Volta al Cantal itinerary receives its first recognition. The Volta al Cantal, PR-CV43, is an approved and circular route of more than 19 kilometers that runs through the interior of the municipality, through the rural and mountain area from Creu de Pedra to the Cantal section. For its part, the Colada de la Costa is the natural itinerary that connects the beaches of El Torres and La Cala, an 8-kilometer route that corresponds to an old cattle route close to the sea, which begins next to the watchtower of L'Aguiló, passes through the cove of Racó de Conill and ends at the funerary tower of Sant Josep.

 

Soler states that "it is a great pride to receive these two blue trail flags, as they are two extraordinary routes, one borders the sea and the views are spectacular and the other runs through mountainous areas through which you can enjoy an impressive natural landscape that, even in the highest area, you can see the sea, which is why both residents and tourists take these routes enjoying the enclaves".