Issue No. 1940 8 - 14 September 2022
COSTA DE ALMERIA • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
Linda Hall ALMERIA’s recent Vuelta a España stage delighted cy cling enthusiasts and was also a boost for the Costa de Almeria brand. After setting out from the El Pozo Alimentacion plant in Alhama (Murcia), on entering Almeria Province the elite teams passed through Pulpi, Vil laricos, Vera, Garrucha, Mojacar, Carboneras and Nijar before reaching the finishing line in Cabo de Gata. Waiting for them were the Diputacion president, Javier Aureliano Garcia, and Almeria City mayor Maria Vazquez, accompa nied by members of the local and provincial au thorities. “Today fans of interna tional cycling discovered the beauty of our land scapes and roads and saw that the Costa de Almeria destination is one of the best places in the world to enjoy cycling at any time of the year,” Garcia said. “The sporttourism combination is key to the sector, while creating prosperity and employ
Photo credit: Mojacar town hall
CYCLING BOOST
LA VUELTA: Elite cycling teams race through Mojacar.
ment.” La Vuelta’s caravan of more than 3,000 people which included the cy clists, their backup, organ isers and all those respon sible for keeping the race on the road spent the night of August 31 in local hotels. This, too, would have an immediate impact on the province’s economy, the President added. He pointed out that the provincial council had doubled its involvement
in La Vuelta and cycling in general over the last two years. “This has enabled us to show 190 countries, and an audience of millions, that Costa de Almeria has
spectacular mountain passes like last year’s Alto de Velefique and flat ar eas bathed by the Mediterranean like those we enjoyed today,” Gar cia said.
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