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After a year and half paralyzed, the works were resumed after Christmas

The project won a European award for sustainable construction and plans to create an ecosystem with abundant vegetation and reuse of water

The works of the Garden of El Coso, resumed after Christmas by the contractor José Díaz SA after a year and paralyzed half will be completed by the third quarter of this year, announced the Cehegín Mayor Jose Soria, and Councilman Works and Services, Juan Antonio Chico, during a visit this morning to a project that is taking its final configuration and aims to become a flagship action and a point of great interest in the Old Town.

During his tour, Soria and Chico have found the pace they have taken the works for which the Autonomous Community has provided a total of 3.5 million euros through the ministries of Public Works and Planning and Education and Culture, while the City has provided 474,000 euros.

Councilman Works and Services recalled that in 2011, President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, laid the foundation stone of the works, which were halted in July 2012 to review and approve technical aspects a slight modification of budget.

Moreover, Juan Antonio Chico replied to the criticism from local groups of the PSOE and IU this project, stating that "contrary to what stated by the PSOE, this project is not a fad that is governing, which offends, but a performance that puts solution to an existing problem in this area of ​​the Old Town and Cehegín will benefit. "

"Maybe if had been ruling PSOE, this project would have left to lose," added the mayor.

Satisfied with the resumption of work has also shown the mayor, who he described as "spectacular" and has said the project is a work that has the "dignity" that deserves the whole Old Town Cehegín.

Soria has also stated that it has required the company awarded the project in the works as many working people Cehegín.

The neighborhood of El Coso, located an area of ​​about 7,000 square meters in the Old Town Cehegín was demolished several years ago after being uninhabited.

For a while it became a degraded and polluted area for which the City sought a solution in the form of the project called 'Oasis', designed by the architects Mónica García and Javier Rubio.

The idea is that the building and the gardens that will coat all vertical surfaces have numerous pipes and water tanks rainwater and sewage from the top of the Old Town are reused, creating a real microsystem.

Municipal Buildings, an exhibition hall, a parking and various trails and walks with abundant vegetation form one powerful space.

Under the heading 'The mysterious story of the garden that produces water', the project was presented in Geneva at the prestigious Holcim Awards, winning the 'Holcim Awards Acknowledgement' to sustainable construction in Europe.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín