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The tourist signage is one of the examples of the projects that were approved and with the funds allocated to them, in the absence of the tender to start the different works.Three projects were submitted to the 2014-2020 Participatory Local Development Strategies LEADER Fund call.The Smart Tourist Signage project was approved with an amount of € 62,472.92 to execute in 2019."The signage is directional and pedestrian.

It includes 23 signs and 80 signs that indicate the situation of monuments, museums, emblematic buildings, places of interest such as the Fuentes del Marqués, hotels and the tourist office.

Each sign includes the minutes it takes to destiny and a pictogram.

These pictograms are part of a cognitive accessibility study carried out by APCOM in 2016 among its users and which allow all people to enjoy the services that society offers for equal rights.

It was essential that our signage will include these pictograms, "explained Gloria Gómez, former councilor for tourism."The signs are also smart.

This has been achieved with the placement of a beacon, which is what makes it possible for tourists to connect and obtain information online from the municipality, explore their surroundings and even propose tourist routes.

This smart signposting It is in other tourist destinations such as the Ribera del Duero Route, Ibiza, Barcelona or Las Palmas, "concluded the Socialist mayor.For his part, Pepe Moreno, spokesman for the Municipal Socialist Group has announced the award of the works and supplies contract for the third project that we presented to the LEADER Funds and which was approved in May 2019: Adequacy of spaces for embroidery workshops, conservation of cloaks and enhancement of the celebration of the Wine Horses.This project will recover the cellar and the plant under cover, known as fake of the House-Museum of the Wine Horses with a grant of 105,000 euros.'' The main objective of this project is to have a space for the development of embroidery training workshops, since it is essential to care for and preserve this activity that enriches our celebration and which is also a source of job creation '', Pepe Moreno has highlighted.To conclude and given that today the City Council has signed the Agreement with the Tax Agency, the socialist spokesperson affirms that 'from our municipal group we believe that said agreement will not be profitable to the coffers of the City Council and that hopefully we are wrong, but we are convinced that time will prove us right.

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Source: PSOE Caravaca de la Cruz