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| The City Council is enabling these facilities to mitigate the effects of heat in the face of the arrival of summer, through the Shadow Plan | The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the councilor for Urban Development and Administration Modernization, José Guillén, and the councilor for the districts and neighborhoods, Marco Antonio Fernández, presented this morning the actions of the Shadow Plan, for which they are being installed more than 120 pergolas in a hundred gardens in Murcia and districts to mitigate the effects of the heat.The presentation took place in the gardens of the district of Llano de Brujas, located on Reina Sofía street, Juan Pablo II square and Julián Cámara musician square, where pergolas have been enabled in children's play areas to reduce temperatures for the arrival of summer."The City Council works on the installation of more than 120 new pergolas distributed in the parks of Murcia and its districts so that families can enjoy new areas of shade during the hottest months in a safe and healthy way, protected from solar radiation and high temperatures, "said José Ballesta, who added that" these actions are part of the Shadow Plan, with which we have already installed pergolas in more than fifty parks spread throughout the municipality.

"In addition, in the three gardens mentioned in Llano de Brujas the fences that surround the children's play areas have also been renovated.Mixed solutions: Sombre Plan and Foresta PlanThe installation of pergolas is being combined with the natural shade of the large trees, which are carried out through the plantations of the Plan Foresta 2030 (100,000 new trees), providing an average of 100m2 of shade in each play area.

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The more than 120 new pergolas join the 40 already installed in recent years.Zeneta, Rincón de Seca, El Palmar and AlgezaresOther districts that already have the new pergolas are Zeneta, Rincón de Seca, El Palmar and Algezares.

These infrastructures have innovative covering systems, with micro-perforated structures that allow the temperature of the playing area to be decreased by several degrees.Shading in the schoolyardsIn parallel, the City Council carries out different actions to increase the shadow spaces in the patios of educational centers, combining the natural shade provided by the trees with the installation of pergolas.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia