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| The City Council has allocated an injection of 236,191 euros for the renovation of this park and the installation of 3 multi-sports courts in three parish gardens | The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, along with the councilor for Urban Development and Administration Modernization, José Guillén, and the councilor for the districts and neighborhoods, Marco Antonio Fernández, visited this week the park of La Paz, located in the district of El Palmar, a green area of ??17,300 square meters that has been completely renovated and opens to the residents of El Palmar with more than 300 trees and new areas of natural shade."The opening of this green environment is a new reality that joins other healthy and emblematic environments in the municipality, such as Murcia Río, the Greenway or the new pedestrian axes of Alfonso X El Sabio and the Murcia Pedestrian plan that are opened Sundays ”, highlighted José Ballesta, who stressed that“ working to improve the collective health status of 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 ”.Specifically, the City Council has allocated an injection of 236,191 euros for the renovation of this park and the installation of 3 multi-sports tracks in three gardens of the district - 197,771 euros for the set-up of the La Paz garden and 38,420 euros for the installation of the new tracks, one of which is located in the La Paz park - actions that will directly benefit the more than 24,400 residents of El Palmar, the district with the largest population in the municipality.More than 300 trees and 1,100 m2 of shrub plantsThe La Paz park has 303 trees, among which hackberry trees predominate, of which 37 have been recently planted.

The City Council has worked on increasing the wooded area and reinforcing garden areas, betting on Mediterranean species with low water consumption, which contributes to reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and creating new shady areas in the residential areas.The City Council has also expanded the shrub areas, occupying an area of ??more than 1,100 m2, and has renovated the parterre in the northern part of the park, which has been entirely covered by new shrub species, creating new vegetation areas with different colors and native species with low water needs, which means a reduction in energy consumption for maintaining the environment.A 120 m2 pergola for the new children's play areaThe works in the La Paz park have also involved the renovation of children's games, as well as their paving.

The new games have been chosen for their resistance and are aimed at developing physical activities outdoors, with elements such as climbing nets, climbing wall, slide, balance ropes and a swing for children with reduced mobility.Likewise, a 120-square-meter pergola has been installed in the children's play area to protect families from social radiation and heat, especially during the summer months.The action has been completed with the creation of a sandpit for younger girls and boys, leading to the establishment of two completely renovated and age-differentiated children's areas, totaling 210 square meters.

In all the surroundings of the park, in addition, the urban furniture has been renovated and expanded, since 44 new benches have been enabled.Intelligent irrigation system that adapts to the water needs of each momentThe City Council has also enabled a new irrigation system in the Parque de La Paz that is controlled remotely and allows irrigation to be adapted to the environmental conditions and water needs at all times, optimizing energy savings.

Specifically, it has a power system that works with solar energy for data transmission, humidity sensors and anti-loss filters.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.Three new multi-sports courts for families in El PalmarThe City Council is also working on the installation of three new multi-sports tracks for the residents of El Palmar, of which one is located in the Garden of La Paz, another in the park of C / Gabriel Luján Caballero and another in Garden C / Chronicler Carlos Valcárcel.The works for the installation and adaptation of the three courts, which will have indoor soccer goals and basketball baskets, began two weeks ago and are scheduled to finish in September.

This project has been promoted by the Municipal Board.The Foresta Plan doubles the number of trees in the municipalityThe Murcian councilor added that the planting of new trees in the La Fama park is part of the Plan Foresta 2030, "the municipal strategy that is setting urban and landscape urban planning, with which the City Council is going to double the number of trees existing in the municipality, reaching 200,000 copies and promoting new shrub plantations ", and indicated that" a tree absorbs up to 150kg of CO2 per year ".Plan RebornThe remodeling of this garden is part of the Plan Renace, which involves the development of nine other parks in the districts of Murcia, located in Sangonera La Verde, Cabezo de Torres, Aljucer, Guadalupe, Puente Tocinos, Torreagüera, Espinardo, Santiago and Zaraiche and Patiño.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia