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| The works of this green environment are ending, which aspires to become a benchmark for practicing outdoor sports | The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the councilor for Urban Development and Administration Modernization, José Guillén, visited this morning the Master Ibarra Garden, a new green lung of almost 6,000 square meters whose works have already been completed and which opens today to the residents of Ronda Sur for outdoor sports."The opening of this green environment is one more step in the process of recovery and opening of public spaces for Murcians, a new reality that joins other healthy environments that are already emblematic in the municipality, such as Murcia Río or Vida Verde or the new pedestrian axes of Alfonso X El Sabio and Gran Vía on Sundays, "said Mayor José Ballesta, who stressed that" work to improve the collective health of the half a million Murcians, promoting clean mobility and physical activity, and promoting sustainability, to maintain environmental quality levels, are two strategic principles of the Murcia City Council ”.The Ibarra Master Garden is a new green area that will especially benefit the nearly 20,000 residents who live in the district of Patiño and in the neighborhoods of San Pío X and Santiago El Mayor, and which also aspires to become a reference area for practicing sports outdoors, since it has new elements such as a longitudinal running track that surrounds this environment.In this park, which is located in the vicinity of Calle Maestro Ibarra, the pavement has been renovated, operating on an area of ??about 4,000 square meters.Spaces that will be surrounded by the health crisisThe Garden has been opened for outdoor sports, but certain areas will remain fenced until it is time to open them, due to the health crisis.
The children's play area, lounge chairs, gymnastics area and outdoor gym equipment for practicing calisthenics are not currently usable.Basketball and running tracksThe Ibarra Master Garden houses a longitudinal 400-meter blue running track, marked by beacons from the Town Hall that indicate the distance of the route, which surrounds the park's surroundings.
It also has a basketball court, which also has a goal.This new green area has renewed the park's urban furniture and nesting boxes with drinking troughs for birds of different sizes have been enabled.Orange, hackberry, jacaranda and palm treesThis environment currently has 127 trees, among which orange, hackberry and jacaranda trees predominate, as well as palm trees.
The flower beds have been renewed, which has meant the expansion of the shrub areas in the lawn spaces, and a perimeter hedge has been planted that fences the garden environment - more than 750 units of shrub plants.The Murcian councilor added that the construction of the Ibarra Master Garden is part of the Foresta 2030 Plan, "the municipal strategy that is setting urban environmental and landscape planning, with which from the City Council we are going to double the number of existing trees in the municipality, reaching 200,000 copies and promoting new shrub plantations ”.A new intelligent irrigation system that adapts to the water needs of each momentThe park also has a new irrigation system that is controlled remotely and that allows irrigation to be adapted to the environmental conditions and water needs at all times.
In addition, it has a power system that works with solar energy for data transmission.The modernization of the irrigation system is part of the Murcia Smart City municipal strategy, which is developed through the MiMurcia project, the smart city model that puts the latest technological innovations at the service of people, improving the quality of life of Murcians and environmental sustainability.A fountain integrated into the environment with riverside and aromatic plantsIn this garden a new ornamental fountain has been built, surrounded by riverside and aromatic plants, which has been enabled on an ecological pavement; action framed within the municipal strategy Objective Pool 2023.Plan RebornThe remodeling of this garden is part of the Plan Renace, which involves the development of ten parks in the districts of Murcia, located in Sangonera La Verde, Cabezo de Torres, Aljucer, Guadalupe, Puente Tocinos, Torreagüera, Espinardo, Santiago and Zaraiche, Patiño and El Palmar.
The City Council has invested almost 1.3 million euros in this plan, of which 84,237 euros have been allocated to actions in the Ibarra Master Garden.In honor of the Murcian journalist Maestro IbarraThe garden has been built in honor of the Murcian journalist Juan Ignacio de Ibarra, known as 'El Maestro', a reference in the world of sports journalism, who practiced his profession in the newspapers Línea, Diario 16, La Opinión and La Verdad, as well as in the weekly Murcia Deportiva and Hoja del Lunes.
During his time on the airwaves, he directed the Ibarraestadio program on Radio Juventud and also worked on the Ser, Copa, Onda Regional, Radio Levante, Onda 21 and Punto Radio stations.Likewise, Juan Ignacio de Ibarra, who died at 83 years of age on January 3, 2019, was the founder of the School of Dramatic Art in Murcia, of which he was the director, and proclaimer of the September Fair in 2010.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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