Calpe once again has a tourist train service following the recent award of the new contract. This week saw the start of this service, which will initially be provided with a diesel locomotive, although it is expected that the company awarded the contract will soon replace it with an electric train as the main vehicle.
Passers-by walking along Avenida Ejércitos Españoles can already see the installation of the first intelligent zebra crossings. Specifically, four of the eighteen that are planned to be installed have already been installed, three on Avenida Ejércitos Españoles and one on Avenida Juan Carlos I.
This morning has been signed the agreement between Calp Town Hall and the Unió Musica Calp-Ifach to exchange 50,02m2 in the ground floor of the building called Casa de la Música owned by the Unió Musical for 70,03 m² in the first floor owned by the Town Hall. With this agreement, the initial contract dating back to 2007 is definitively settled.
The National Institute of Statistics has notified Calpe Town Council that the figure for the municipality, resulting from the revision of the municipal census as of 1st January 2023, is 25,854 inhabitants. This gives the municipality 1,758 new inhabitants since the last official figure.
The plenary session of the Calpe Town Council held yesterday unanimously approved to dedicate the year 2024 to the celebration of the centenary of the Calpe Fishermen's Guild.
The main item on the agenda for tomorrow's ordinary plenary session is the approval of the basic and execution project for the new secondary school at a cost of €12,313,569.84.
The Department of Social Welfare, Equality and Family has launched the "Línies amb il-lusió" campaign aiming to bring more than 250 letters to people living in the homes of the elderly in the municipality or people served by the Home Care Service and who are in a situation of unwanted loneliness.
The Commerce and Creama of Calpe Town Council is launching a competition under the name "Fill your shopping trolley with happiness" with the aim of rewarding consumers of Calpe commerce.