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THE Institute for Spanish Tourism Quality (ICTE) has recognised the impressive Nerja Caves and awarded them the coveted ‘Q’ Award which is due to be collected at the award event, Q Night, on Thurs day, January 19. ICTE is the body responsi ble for assessing the quality of tourism establishments and is a private entity, inde pendent and acknowledged throughout Spain. The ‘Q’ for tourism quality is a renowned Spanish brand aimed at the volun tary certification of tourist services. An organisation ob tains the ‘Q’ for tourism quality when it complies with the technical require ments established in its cor responding standard. It brings prestige, unique ness, reliability and accuracy to the tourism establish ments that have obtained it
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Issue No. 1959 19 - 25 January 2023
NERJA MUSEUM: Some 30,000 years of art.
NERJA CAVES: A quality tourism establishment.
as well as promotion through the Secretary of State for Tourism and the re gional governments in Spain. To obtain it, it is necessary
to implement a manage ment system aimed at pro viding customer service and continuous improvement. The Nerja Caves are a se ries of caverns close to the
town of Nerja in the Province of Malaga. Stretch ing for almost five kilome tres, the caverns are one of Spain’s major tourist attrac tions.
Nerja’s new hospital LAST week, Juanma Moreno, presi dent of the Junta de Andalucia, vis ited the site of a new municipal health centre in Nerja, which was finally granted the green light to begin building in December after a 15year wait. Moreno accompanied Nerja mayor Jose Alberto Armijo to a meeting with the architect in charge of drafting the project to examine the features of the future health centre, which will have a surface area of 4,520 square me tres. There will also be five multipur pose rooms, five paediatric con sulting rooms, minor surgery and dental rooms, health education,
Image: Ayuntamiento de Nerja.
By Lucy Chamberlaine
Site for Nerja’s new health centre.
physiotherapy, electrotherapy, two rehabilitation consultation rooms, radiography, and a critical care and emergency department. The ambitious project was put out to tender in December, with a
budget of €9.4 million and a com pletion date of 20 months. In a statement, the mayor said, “We are very happy that the Junta de Andalucia has finally approved this important project for Nerja.”
FROM cave paintings to contemporary works, the museum of Nerja has magically managed to con dense 30,000 years of art into one exhibition. With this new exhibition, Nerja represents a time line of art that begins 30,000 years ago, with the old est cave paintings in the famous local caves, up to the contemporary compositions of Simon Zabell, which he is presenting individually for the first time. In total, there will be nine paintings, five sculp tures and various musical themes which can be seen in the Nerja museum until March 12 from 10.00am until 4.00pm, Tuesday to Saturday.