There has been a voting period and Cehegín has achieved, not only be among the seven rural wonders of Spain, but that the users of this portal have voted for this municipality to rise with this award, to obtain the highest vote.
The first municipality in Murcia that gets it in the history of these awards throughout its history.
This Thursday the seven new rural pearls of our country were announced, seven villages chosen from twenty candidates and Cehegín has won first place, with 15.7% of the votes, in total 12,700, ahead of Puebla de Sanabria 14 , 4 of the votes;
in third position has been Zafra.
In fourth and fifth position are followed by Cantabria and Estella;
and in sixth and seventh positions Bowls and Barcena Mayor.
The mayor of Cehegín said that "it is an honor for our municipality to have managed to be Maravilla Rural 2019, and that this portal, Homeaway, the giant of rural vacation rentals, would have included us in its list of the twenty most important municipalities of Spain".
"It is important, he commented, first for the dissemination of our historical heritage, to give visibility to our municipality, jewel of our Region, so that we know that we are a World Heritage Site with our cave paintings, so that it is known that our helmet Old was declared a Historic-Artistic Site in 1982, to highlight our natural heritage, etc. "
For its part, the Councilor for Tourism, María Dolores Agudo, said that "it is a great joy that, for a whole year, we hold this award, which will serve us through this portal as a broadcast, which will give us a badge that it will be forever ".
"My congratulations, has concluded, also to the other award-winning villages that, many of them, are in the top for decades of the most visited and beautiful towns in Spain"
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín