Calpe continues to improve the surroundings of Las Salinas. A few months ago, the regeneration works and the creation of pedestrian paths have been completed, and now the initiative is continued with tree planting actions. The Diputación Provincial is subsidising the project, which is concentrated in the area of Las Salinas and Avenida Juan Carlos I.
Calpe has increased its recycling figures again. In the first half of 2019, Calpe residents recycled 19.3% more light packaging and 2.6% more paper and cardboard. In the first six months of the year, 261.88 tonnes of light packaging have been recycled compared to 211.34 tonnes in the previous year. As far as paper and cardboard are concerned, it was 323.22 tonnes from January to June 2019 compared to 314.92 tonnes in the previous year.
Noemí Campos, the restorer of the mosaics at the Baños de la Reina site, tells us in this interview about the development of the work.
The Chairman of Grupo Anaya of donates books to the Casa de Cultura and the Calpe Municipal Library.
José Manuel Gómez, President of Grupo Anaya, has been spending his summer holidays in Calpe for 44 years.
This year he took the opportunity to meet the Mayor of Calpe, Ana Sala, and donate books to the Casa de Cultura and the “Joanot Martorell “ Municipal Library.
Calpe is preparing another year for the great cycling festival next Sunday, August 25th, with the arrival of the Vuelta a España.
On this occasion, the end of the second stage of the Spanish Tour, 199.6 kilometres between Benidorm and Calpe, will take place.
Cyclists reach Calpe via the Acceso Norte and follow Avenida Generalitat Valenciana, Ejércitos Españoles and Juan Carlos I towards Poble Nou de Benitatxell.
From there they return to Calpe, past the Avenida Juan Carlos I to Las Salinas, where the finish line is located.
Since yesterday and until the end of August, 24 young people from the NGO De Amicitia have been taking part in a campaign to clean up the beaches and bays of Calpe.
The volunteers are active on the following days: today, Tuesday, from 7:30 to 11:30 in the Cala de LesUrques; tomorrow, Wednesday, in the Cala del Borumbot, from 7:30 to 9:00, and from 9:30 to 11:30 in Cala La Manzanera. On Thursday the 15th, from 7:30 to 9:00, in Cala del Racó and from 9:30 to 10:30 on the Paseo Princesa de Asturias.
“Calpe, por los buenos tratos" (Calpe, for a good relationship) is the title of a guide published by Calpe City Council, aimed primarily at young people to learn how to build healthy relationships and prevent violence against women.
The document deals with the myths of so-called romantic love and the close relationship it can have with gender-specific violence in relationships. Relationship alternatives are described in order to build healthy and thus egalitarian relationships.
The "Joanot Martorell" municipal library of Calpe had 18,000 readers in the first six months of the year.