The Director General of Tourism, Marina Garcia, attended today, with the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, the meeting for the committee to monitor the Plan to Promote Tourism Products of this town, where the main actions were reported and the next opening Castle lighting will take place before the end of November.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is investing a total of 869,000 euros between the three phases of the Plan.
Garcia said that this meeting discussed all the actions of the plan and explained that "the first installment are fully completed and, as the second and third phases, we have been checking how are the works of the Church of Santa Maria lighting and works of Lorca Castle, which are almost completed and ready to be able to open. "
The meeting discussed the award of the work of consolidation and adaptation of the Church of Santa Maria to a local company, carrying out a brochure of actions carried out in the Promotion Plan and the start of excavations in the Archaeological Park del Castillo.
Also discussed the holding of the Conference on Jewish Culture in the first quarter, with the aim of spreading the wealth found in excavations of the Castle, related to the medieval Jewish quarter of Lorca.
The total amount of the Plan, which provide the Ministry, the regional government and the city is 2,607,000 euros.
Source: CARM