10 Roquetas News
Port Improvements ferent countries and of all been announced over a year
The Port of Roquetas is to age groups. 20,000 visitors, ago. Also, the largest residen-
have new offices and ship- however, were from Austria tial project in the history of
builders' quarters. The alone. the province, Bahía San
projects started this summer The museum holds various Miguel in El Ejido, is still
and they will require an in- exhibitions from well- not completed after several
vestment of around of 1.5 known artists usually run- years.
million Euros The intention ning for three months. A new The main sticking point is
by the Public Agency of exhibition will begin in Octo- that the banks are very reluc-
Ports of Andalucia is to mod- ber called “Bullfighting” by tant to finance new real es-
ernize its' infrastructures. Maritina Delgado which will tate ventures.
There will be the construc- run until December.
tion of a new office building The museum has many other More Money for Andalucia
to replace the present one rooms dedicated to various Beaches
and costing 615,695 Euros. aspects of bullfighting such A massive injection of funds
It should be completed as a history of the bullfight- has been agreed to improve
around March 2009. It will ing of Almeria province, facilities on the Costa del
contain offices, meeting including the most important Sol’s beaches.
rooms and archives and cov- bullfighters of the time. It has been announced that
er 292 square metres. There are also rooms dedicat- the Junta de Andalucia is to
The new shipbuilders' quar- ed to bulls (no surprise there), invest 6.9 million euros in
ters should be ready around various types of cattle ranch better sanitation, new beach-
April and cover an area of and one displaying various bars and buoys. Where the
714 square metres. The budg- bullfighting highlights from money is actually being
eted cost is 757,958 Euros the past. spent is unclear, however.
Amongst further proposed in- The local councillor responsi-
vestments in the port area are Crisis in Almeria ble for tourism, Luciano
the construction of a new The current crisis has put the Alonso has said that the re-
market. brakes on many of the con- gional government’s invest-
struction projects in Almeria ment in beaches is fuelled by
Bullfighting Museum province. recognition of the fact that
The Bullfighting Museum of For example the proposed 60 per cent of the visitors
Roquetas has had fifty thou- casino in Roquetas, being who come to Andalucia,
sand visits since its inaugura- developed by Grupo Santa come here for sun, sea and
tion in April of last year. María, has not yet got off the sand.
Visitors came from many dif- ground in spite of having
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