ARCHIVED - Cartagena preparing beaches and infrastructure…just in case movement is permitted
At the moment hopes are high within the tourist sector that travel between regions may resume for Easter
There is still significant uncertainty surrounding the Easter week and the degree to which movement will be permitted throughout Spain.
The epidemiological situation in Spain is improving day by day at the moment, with most Spanish regions relaxing the level of restrictions imposed as the situation improves, but at the moment it’s still uncertain whether residents will be permitted to move from one region to another in order to visit family and even take a short holiday break.
Whatever the final outcome, town halls hoping to attract visitors to their municipalities over that period can´t afford the luxury of waiting until the last minute and in Cartagena work has been underway for several weeks already to prepare the beaches, install facilities and make the coastal areas as attractive as possible in time for Easter.
This week workers will be re-painting the Monte Blanco viewpoint, the rubbish points and giving the traffic lights of the Gran Vía a good check-over as well as continuing with the work of repainting the central reservation. Signage and the “exits” indicators are being replaced or repainted, the beaches are being conditioned, walkways and footbaths cleaned or replaced, the natural areas around Playa Honda given a clean-up, biomass removed from beaches in the Mar Menor, focusing mainly in Los Urrutias, as well as establishing a protective bank of posidonia in the Levante Beach of Cabo de Palos and Calnegre, to protect the sand from late-spring storms, creating a barrier to prevent erosion of the coastline.
And hoping that the numbers of Covid cases across the country declines enough within the next month for regional borders to re-open.