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The activity will focus on the more than 3,000 parks and gardens in the metropolitan area and the 55 districts that make up almost 900 km2 of the municipality of Murcia.

With more than 117,000 trees and more than 15,000 units of equipment, Murcia is ready to enjoy the outdoors, and to enjoy the experts from all over Spain

Murcia will host the National Congress of Parks and Public Gardens PARJAP on April 22, 23 and 24, 2020. This event will attract more than 400 of the most important national and international experts in parks and gardens and 5,000 visitors.

The Councilor for Modernization of the Administration and Urban Development, José Guillén has presented in Santander, in the National Congress of Parks and Public Gardens that this year has taken place there, the project that will carry out Murcia as the headquarters of gardening for the PARJAP 2020

Before thousands of experts in gardening throughout Spain, Councilor José Guillén stressed that "the city of Murcia is today a benchmark in gardening at the national level, few cities like ours can show live and emblematic projects of city transformation, tourism boost , environmental and urban regeneration, enhancement of its heritage, regeneration of its river and promotion of its urban green infrastructures such as Murcia Río, Vía Verde or Jardines de Primavera ".

In addition to "the Shadow Plan projects, bike lanes or urban gardens, the city has multiple parks and gardens in which to make unique technical visits and of special interest such as the Floridablanca Garden, declared of Cultural Interest in the category of Historical Garden in 2017 for being the first public garden of our country, or the Botanical Garden and the Paseo del Malecón, BIC since 1982. Murcia also has the last urban vestige of what was a Hispanic-Muslim garden in the Huerto López Ferrer and new Murcia River gardens, or the more than 450 new urban green infrastructures ".

These projects, with Murcia Río in the lead, are the beginning of a path towards a greener future, mixing tradition and progress through the recreation of landscapes of the orchard and the forests that grow in this municipality.

Murcia: river, sun and gardens

The choice of Murcia for a new appointment of the PARJAP reflects the attraction capacity of the city for this type of meetings and the leadership exercised in urban gardening at national level.

Murcia and the Spanish Association of Parks and Public Gardens (PARJAP) are members of the Word Urban Parks, the most representative international organization of urban parks, public space and the recreational sector.

In addition, the new edition will highlight the tourist, hotel and communications infrastructure of the city, as well as the media and professionals of the congress sector.

The activity will focus on the more than 3,000 parks and gardens in the metropolitan area and the 55 districts that make up almost 900 km2 of the municipality of Murcia.

With more than 117,000 trees and more than 15,000 units of equipment, Murcia is ready to enjoy the outdoors, and to enjoy the experts from all over Spain.

After the success that Murcia had organizing this congress of the AEPJP in 1998, in addition to the experience of the Department of Modernization of the Administration and Urban Development in the organization of major events, it is intended to return to host, 22 years later, this day in the Victor Villegas Auditorium and Congress Center.

The Spanish Association of Parks and Public Gardens (AEPJP)

The AEPJP, founded in Barcelona in 1973, is a non-profit association formed by professionals in the field of public and private gardening, serving the Parks and Gardens of Spain.

Today it has more than 450 partners, among which 63 city councils and 60 companies and universities stand out.

The association has a consolidated International Cooperation.

The achievements accumulated by this group throughout its trajectory make it a benchmark for the institutional representation of the sector and public green spaces in Spain.

The main objective of the association is to promote greater knowledge of parks, gardens and the landscape in general, thus promoting a set of actions aimed at improving the quality of life of people in towns and cities, through proper management and use of its green areas.

The AEPJP promotes research studies, signs strategic agreements, exchanges of experiences and points of view of professionals.

In addition, it encourages training and R & D, leads forums of interest, promotes parks and gardens and places value on the management of professionals in the sector.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia