July, the best month of visits for the royal palaces

Last July has been the best in terms of visits registered by National Heritage to the royal palaces, since they had to be closed due to the pandemic. In this way, in July the record of visits to the Royal Sites and Royal Patronages administered by the institution was broken since the outbreak of the pandemic, with more than 141.222 visits to its palaces and monasteries.

Both the Royal Palace of Riofrío and the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso, both managed by National Heritage, have achieved an increase in visits due to the increase in inland tourism. Every year, the palaces of the Real Sitio de La Granja and Riofrío register some 355.000 visitors. But the figure increases when the entrances to the Royal Gardens of the Farm are counted, which each year are visited by more than 400.000 people.

The July data for the entire set, the institution pointed out in a statement, consolidates "an upward trend of seven consecutive months of increase" in the entrances to the Royal Sites and Royal Patronages, reaching 572.537 visits since January 1 of 2021.

The Royal Palace of Madrid leads the list of most visited monuments so far in 2021, followed by the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial and the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, located in the Community of Madrid.

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National Heritage has included data from the Royal Sites and Royal Patronages that it administers and over which it has the power to measure capacity, located in the autonomous communities of Madrid, Castilla y León, Extremadura and the Balearic Islands.

To these figures must be added those of the Historic Gardens, which so far in 2021 have exceeded one million visits (1.164.497). The most frequented gardens since January have been those of the Royal Site of Aranjuez, those that surround the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, and those of the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso, in Segovia.

In 2020, 1.545.913 people visited one of the nine green spaces where the institution has implemented a visitor counting system. In addition to the aforementioned natural spaces, National Heritage has other green areas that can be visited such as the Jardines de la Quinta and the free area of Monte de El Pardo and the Bosque de la Herrería in El Escorial, in Madrid; the Gardens of the Yuste Monastery, in Cáceres; and the Riofrío Forest, in Segovia. All of them without the ability to quantify visitors.

“The data for 2021 correspond to a context marked by the restrictions of the state of alarm, in force until May 9, as well as by the progressive reopening of spaces, the limitation of capacity and the reduced visiting groups, without forgetting the closings caused by the snow squall 'Filomena', which conditioned the visit for several weeks, "the statement recalled.

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Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

Miguel Ángel de Vicente has visited the Sanctuary of El Henar to check the status of the works being carried out by the Provincial Council in the surroundings and accesses for the celebration of the Jubilee Year

Since the Holy See granted the Sanctuary of the Virgin of El Henar a Jubilee Year to celebrate the fourth centenary of its feast, the Segovia Provincial Council has shown its support for the organization, making all the areas of activity of the provincial institution. In this way, the departments of Culture, Tourism, Territorial Action or Provincial Promotion, among others, have been collaborating during this time in everything that has been demanded of them. Thus, the Henarense Jubilee Year was one of the main claims on the stand that the Provincial Council had at the Madrid International Tourism Fair, where the organization was able to show the attending public its extensive program of activities. But, in all these months, other promotional and dissemination tasks have also been carried out and, in this sense, the provincial institution, through the Culture Area, has taken charge of the printing costs of all the posters. and stationery.

The president of the Provincial Council, Miguel Ángel de Vicente has been following the evolution of all these collaborations and, this morning, he has paid a visit to the Sanctuary, together with the deputy for Culture, José María Bravo, to see first-hand the march of the Work that is being carried out both for the conditioning of the accesses, by the Territorial Action teams, and in the cleaning of the area, in which the forestry brigades that depend on the Provincial Employment and Promotion Area have intervened. De Vicente has shown a special interest in having everything ready for next Sunday, August 8, when the opening of this Jubilee Year takes place, an act in which the provincial institution also collaborates, since the choir will perform at the inaugural mass Voces de Castilla, whose cache will be fully paid for by the Culture Area. The Area managed by José María Bravo will have an important weight to make possible the cultural programming that will be carried out in the Sanctuary of the Virgin of El Henar on the occasion of this Jubilee Year, since all the activities that take place They will count on your financial collaboration to be able to bring quality performances, as is the case of the one that the bailaora Luisa Palicio will offer on the front page of the Sanctuary, next Friday, August 6 at ten o'clock at night, within the natural Museg cycle.

On the other hand, also from next Friday, two tourist information agents will begin to provide their services in the Sanctuary, since from Prodestur, the autonomous body of Tourism of the Provincial Council, two people have been made available to the organization who They will work for six months to disseminate the Jubilee Year, both in situ and through social networks.

Miguel Ángel de Vicente has reiterated to the rector of the Shrine, Carlos García, the commitment of the Provincial Council to the celebration of this "Jubilee Year that will undoubtedly be a place of pilgrimage for thousands of people, that will help to reactivate the area and that will give know the cultural possibilities that our province has ".

Source: Diputación de Segovia

Riaza and Ayllón were the hosts of the fifth outing of the tourist calendar programmed by the Diputación 'Viajero, I will teach you Segovia'

This weekend the official tourist guides accompanied the thirty-one participants of the program organized by the Provincial Council 'Viajero, I will teach you Segovia' to get to know the rich mountain architecture of Riaza and the historic medieval town of Ayllón. Mariano Vela was in charge of counting the main attractions and curiosities of the historical heritage of both municipalities.

The route began in the Plaza Mayor de Riaza, where its characteristic arcades and bullring stand out. Visitors discovered the typical mountain architecture while strolling along Calle Cervantes and then visited the parish church of Nuestra Señora del Manto, an impressive Renaissance complex dating from the late XNUMXth to the mid-XNUMXth century and located behind the town hall building. The group was able to appreciate some of the characteristics of the temple, such as the rectangular Latin cross plan, the apse, two chapels, the bell tower, the sacristy and the baptistery.

The itinerary continued in Ayllón, where the group traveled to feel the medieval atmosphere that the town houses. The visit began in the arch that presides over the town next to the Romanesque bridge, on the shore of the Aguisejo river. Later, the expedition entered the old town, with its unique emblazoned houses, such as Los Contreras or the Palacio del Obispo Vellosillo, a building with a Renaissance façade that houses the Ayllón Library and Museum of Contemporary Art.

Next, the participants arrived at the Plaza Mayor, where they visited one of the town's main temples since the XNUMXth century, the church of San Miguel. They could also see the neoclassical church of Santa María la Mayor, dated between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, which has a majestic forty-meter high bell tower topped with a belfry.

This appointment culminated with a stop at the leather workshop 'El Hada Leanan', where the entourage was able to learn first-hand what the process of treating and working with hides is.

The next visit of the campaign is scheduled for next Saturday, August 7 and will take participants to explore the enclaves of medieval origin, nature and the attractive landscape offered by the municipalities of Languilla and Madaruelo.

Reservations can be made on the website of the autonomous body of Tourism of the Provincial Council, www.segoviaturismo.es, until 6:XNUMX p.m. on Friday, July XNUMX and with a maximum number of four people per reservation. The registration fee is three euros per person.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The distribution of tickets for the inauguration of the Jubilee Year begins

The Sanctuary of the Virgen del Henar is just a week away from living one of its greatest days in recent years with the opening of the Henarense Jubilee Year, which will take place next Sunday and whose central acts will be marked by the reduction of capacities and spaces. A few days ago the rector of the sanctuary pointed out the approach of having to access them through tickets. That is why whoever wishes to attend the opening events must register in advance in order to control the number of attendees. Access to the temple and the established area of chairs that will be located outside and from which the Eucharist can be followed will be done only through an entrance, which can now be collected for free.

The celebration of the Opening of the Jubilee Year will begin on Sunday at 18:30 p.m. from the source of the Cirio. From there there will be a small procession with the celebrating priests and without an image, which will reach the entrance of the sanctuary, where, with a brief liturgy, the Bishop of Segovia, César Franco, will proceed to the symbolic opening of the Holy Door. The Eucharist, initially planned in the outer area of the sanctuary, will finally take place inside the temple, with a capacity limited to a hundred people. Accompanying the prelate of Segovia will be the auxiliary bishop of Valladolid, Luis Argüello, and the bishop emeritus of Segovia, Ángel Rubio.

For this opening ceremony, the organization indicates that the best access to the sanctuary will be through Viloria del Henar. Once there, the directions will be given to access the vehicle parking area.

Preparations
While activities and schedules are being specified, El Henar continues to finalize preparations for the celebration of the Jubilee Year. This same week they have held a meeting with the Provincial Council. The president of the institution, Miguel Ángel de Vicente, the vice president, José María Bravo, and the deputy Dionisio García, who, according to the rector, Carlos García, visited the actions that have come from the provincial entity. developing in recent months to improve the enclosure, in addition to committing to carry out other works, such as the paving of the prairie road and the path that has been made around the Cirio fountain or the mowing of the grass in the surroundings of the Sanctuary . Prodestur will install a tourist information booth for the province at a point near the access to the temple.

It was not the only meeting. A few days ago García also participated in a meeting with the mayor of Cuéllar, Carlos Fraile, and the mayor of Traffic and Security, Tomás Marcos, to specify the needs in these matters. On Tuesday security measures will be addressed in a meeting with officials of the Civil Guard to finalize the operation.

Acts
Although the Jubilee Year does not open until next Sunday, El Henar will host from today a series of cultural events that will precede the opening. The first of them will take place this afternoon, at 20:30 p.m., with a concert by the Coral Ágora that will open the program. The event will take place inside the temple of the Sanctuary, with a capacity reduced to a hundred people, Access will be free, but there will be a control to respect the capacity limitation, the same protocol that will be followed in other events that will take place in the following days.

The opening of the 'Júbilo' exhibition was also scheduled for today, in which photographs, paintings and documents related to the Virgen del Henar were to be included, but due to the current health situation it was decided to postpone it. The next appointment will be on Friday with Luisa Palicio's flamenco recital, included within the MUSEG Al Natural cycle organized by the Juan de Borbón Foundation.

Source: North of Castile

The Prodestur body of the Provincial Council takes up, with a journalist from the Heraldo de México, the organization of visits by the province to tourist agents

The Segovia Provincial Council, through its tourism agency, Prodestur, has recently taken up the organization of trips through the province to tourist agents, with the visit of the Mexican journalist and photographer Adalberto Ríos Lanz, who has been able to discover some of the attractions of our province.

The journalist, specialized in gastronomy, culture and tourism, writes for the supplement Escapada del Heraldo de México, which currently has a weekly circulation of 50.000 copies on paper, to which must be added the publication of its content in digital platforms.

During his stay in the province of Segovia, Ríos Lanz was able to enjoy the taste of roast suckling pig and learn about the majesty of the Real Sitio de San Ildefonso, where he visited the Royal Palace and its gardens and was able to understand why these were the most important contribution of the reign. from Felipe V to the history of Spanish gardens.

For the Prodestur deputy, Magdalena Rodríguez, "it is important to resume this type of face-to-face actions, since it is a good way to recover the long-awaited normality and the axis of a communication strategy when it comes to positioning the province of Segovia as destiny".

Not surprisingly, this visit is framed within a trip launched by the Siglo Foundation, with which Prodestur regularly collaborates in all kinds of trips organized for families, as well as others planned for the different tourist agents, with the aim that These professionals live the first-hand experience and get to know the tourist and gastronomic offer that the province of Segovia offers, thus being able to inspire and encourage potential clients to travel to Segovia and get to know the province.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

Rural tourism continues to set trends

Occupancy in rural tourism for August in Castilla y León stands at 49%, according to data from EscapadaRural.com, the most important digital platform specialized in rural accommodation in Spain. This percentage places the community behind Navarra (72%), Asturias (71%), Galicia (68%), Murcia (66%), Andalusia (65%), Catalonia (64%), Cantabria (62%) , The Basque Country (58%), Aragon (57%), the Valencian Community (56%) and Madrid and Extremadura (51%).

In the case of the classification by provinces, the top 3 of the favorites to enjoy rural heritage this August are occupied by three Andalusians: Cádiz and Córdoba (74%) and Málaga (73%), the latter tied with Pontevedra and Barcelona.

At the national level, the occupation in rural tourism for August is already 59%. The rate of bookings observed in recent weeks suggests that the month of August will close with figures similar to those reached in 2020. Last year, after the end of mobility restrictions, rural tourism registered a historical record of bookings, with 65% on average of occupied accommodations in Spain.

This year's forecasts continue to show the interest of travelers in rural tourism, even now that other types of tourism have already been activated. In addition, the arrival of the fifth wave of Covid-19 has also favored travelers to opt for proximity natural destinations. "Although we believed that this year the occupancy would be lower than that registered in August 2020, which we considered exceptional, the truth is that today's forecasts make us very optimistic," explains Empar Baños, head of press and events at EscapadaRural.com.

The 59% figure significantly exceeds the forecast percentage on these same dates in 2019, when 38% of the rural houses in our country indicated that they would be occupied in August. After this forecast, the rate of bookings grew until the end of the month with 42% of rural occupancy. In any case, the estimate for the close of summer in 2021, higher than 55% on average between July and August, is significantly different from the global data obtained in 2019 (42%).

“After the peak of 2020, rural tourism continues to gain new followers. Whether due to the health situation or the discovery of another type of tourism, with quiet destinations far from the cities, the traveler continues to bet on rural houses, ”adds Baños, who assures that the pandemic and mobility restrictions have led many travelers discover the sector.

Rural trends for this summer

These excellent occupancy forecasts are in line with the survey on 'Rural tourism consumption intention - Summer 2021' that EscapadaRural.com launched at the beginning of this summer to its database of travelers, and where it emerged that eight of each 10 travelers this summer was going to practice rural tourism. Another of the conclusions drawn was that the practice of sustainable tourism is the trend with which the traveler who opts for rural areas to enjoy their summer holidays identifies the most this summer.

82,5% of those surveyed said that Covid-19 had increased their desire to travel and learn about the Spanish rural heritage, and that they would spend their holidays with the closest family (41%), outside their autonomous community (78% ).

"The pandemic has changed our way of relating and the way in which we were used to living as a society, but it has also modified our behavior with the environment and has taught us to be more environmentally conscious," concludes Baños.

Source: Segoviaudaz

Northeast Segovia, perfect destination

Ecotourism Northeast of Segovia is now a reality. The concern of the Más que Hoces group, made up of several businesswomen from the Northeast of Segovia who sought to create a tourist destination under a brand that identifies it, has led to a whole process in which involvement and collaborative work have been key. A participatory space, in which to share knowledge, ideas and experiences to achieve achievements. And above all, the involvement of all tourist sectors to make the Northeast of Segovia a reference region in ecotourism.

The first contact between the different interested agents was at the end of 2019, thanks to the celebration of two meetings in Maderuelo and Prádena, in which something different began to take place ... a feeling of union between all those people who, being aware of the enormous potential that the Northeast of Segovia could offer, they were also aware of the lack of cohesion between the parties involved and the lack of a common identity that was synonymous with quality and the region and that, above all, would identify all those who day by day. day they work to make this area a tourist destination to consider, a reference at all levels.

Thus began a work that has been going through different stages: the Northeast Coworking Space hosted a training workshop on ecotourism led by Xavier Cazorla, advisor and trainer in sustainable tourism, who has been guiding and supporting the entire group in this whole process. From here came such clear premises as what ecotourism is, what elements are necessary to put it into practice in a specific area and the conviction that the Northeast of Segovia is the perfect destination. The enthusiasm and desire to participate was such that the foundations of the celebration of a collective event were even forged, a festival in which all the options that the region can offer will be shown.

The pandemic forced the organization of the planned meeting to be suspended and left for later; However, far from stopping their activity, all the people involved in the construction of the territory brand for the Northeast of Segovia have continued to work on creating it from their homes, thanks to the new technologies that have allowed them to be followed. holding meetings periodically. Some very fruitful encounters, full of effort and sacrifice, which led last summer to the launch of some experiences in which at least two companies have collaborated, as has been the case of the symbiosis between the Boceguillas municipal swimming pool and the Fogo Rock musical encounters, or the gastronomic pairing proposed by Eduardo and Miriam with stargazing.

Some forty companies and individuals participate in this project, among which are also included the tourist offices (including the Houses of the Parque de las Hoces del Riaza and El Duratón). They are the true protagonists of this great success and who have led the entire process since its inception. Codinse has been part of it as one more member of the team, lending its support and technical means as needed. The presentation of the Ecoturismo Nordeste de Segovia brand took place on June 17, within the online cycle Los Jueves con Codinse, and the website is already up and running.

Because this region has a lot to offer: natural environment, historical and artistic offer, varied gastronomy or endless options to choose from in accommodation. And all this comes together under the umbrella of a common brand, thanks to a joint effort that is beginning to bear fruit. A project, in addition, that has the financing of the European Union through the EAFRD Funds within the Leader aid program for the period 2014-2020.

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Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

The Provincial Council takes Segovians to discover Fuentidueña and Sacramenia in the fourth outing of their tourist calendar 'Traveler, I'll teach you Segovia'

The forty-two participants of the fourth guided appointment of the program proposed by the Provincial Council, 'Traveler, I will teach you Segovia', visited the land of Segovian Romanesque this weekend. There they were able to discover the history and heritage of the municipalities of Fuentidueña and Sacramenia, as well as take an interest in churra sheep and the gastronomy of the area.

The visit, which lasted approximately two hours, began in the Plaza de la Villa de Fuentidueña, where the participants were able to contemplate, through the viewpoints, the Duratón valley and the church of Santa María la Mayor.

Afterwards, the group walked to the XNUMXth century Palace, the former residence of Don Pedro de Luna and his family, and the participants contemplated the ruins of the old Magdalena Hospital, destined to the reception of the poor and sick from the municipality and its surroundings. They also visited the Romanesque church of San Miguel, dating from the XNUMXth century, in which the erotic carving in the corbels stands out, the Ruins of San Martín, whose apse is in New York, and the Necropolis, made up of almost two hundred graves.

As they made the tour, the guide Raúl Rascón told them about different curiosities and mysteries of the Castle and the Walls, without forgetting the cellars dug into the hillside.

Next, the group traveled to Sacramenia where they visited the Romanesque church of Santa Marina with its fantastic paintings inside, and then strolled through the streets of the town and contemplated the church of San Martín and the Cruz de la Trinidad. The itinerary culminated with a visit to the Zaraguilla Wineries, where everyone was able to learn about and enjoy the process of making and aging wine.

In the next visit of the program, which will take place on July 31 and August 1, participants will be able to discover the mountain and medieval architecture of Riaza and Ayllón. There, they will visit the church of Nuestra Señora del Manto and make the tour of the town until they reach the Plaza Mayor, with the church of San Miguel and that of Santa María la Mayor as major attractions.

Reservations can be made on the website of the autonomous body of Tourism of the Provincial Council, www.segoviaturismo.es, until 30:XNUMX p.m. on Friday, July XNUMX and with a maximum number of four people per reservation. The registration fee is three euros per person.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The hidden treasures of the province

Segovia houses a large amount of archaeological riches under its soil that, year after year, are coming to light thanks to the excavation campaigns and that can be a new tourist attraction for visitors.

Segovia is a province characterized by its cultural tourism, where, in each town, you can discover small treasures that lead to ancient times. Undoubtedly, the tourist spot that most attracts visitors is in the capital, the famous Aqueduct from Roman times, but the reality is that every year, more and more towns are becoming a point of cultural tourist interest thanks to to the deposits found.

Currently, there are already many points in various towns that are visited by tourists and that exist thanks to the work of archaeologists. Some of these examples are the 'Cueva de los Enebralejos' in Prádena, an underground museum that welcomes all tourists who want to visit it. There is also the 'Archaeological Classroom' of Aguilafuente, where, through educational materials, visitors are taught the Roman villa that was located in this town.

New deposits
Segovia not only has these archaeological wonders, but in 2021 alone, there are more than fifteen operations open. The excavation campaign for the year has already been closed, but it is worth highlighting several of the investigations that have already been or will be opened.

The excavation of the Roman villa of Matabuey has been completed at the beginning of this month. It has been promoted by the "Eresma Arqueológico Project", a research program that "claims the right of peoples to exist." This is the third excavation that is carried out in the area and in it indications have been discovered that indicate that there may also be remains belonging to the time of the 'High Empire'. In addition, some good quality marble fragments have been found that may indicate the social class to which the villagers belonged.

Other expeditions that are being carried out in Segovia can be found in Santa María de Nieva, the Roman town of Paradinas, in which a mosaic in perfect condition has been found. In addition, we also find in Duratón, the excavation in the old church of the Assumption, from the Romanesque stage, which is located next to one of the best-preserved Visigoth necropolises on the peninsula. Both have been supported by the Provincial Council.

Other investigations and expeditions are also going to begin, such as that of the Dolmen de Santa Inés, where a collective Neolithic tomb is being excavated, one of the main funerary structures of the time and which can provide crucial data that unveil some of the secrets of the period. pre-Roman in the peninsula and possibly brings archaeologists closer to a possible Neolithic settlement in the area.

In Aguilafuente, where the Archaeological Classroom is located, the excavations of the town have begun again. In the few days that the investigation of the place takes place, the main facade of the town has been found, which seems to indicate that it was of high social status. The architectural composition seems to be very majestic and complex, which opens a new line on what was already known about the site.

Another of the archaeological expeditions of this 2021 that promises is that of the Cerro de los Almadenes, just started this month, where the copper mining operations in the area are investigated, which it is believed that they could be of the Visigoth and Roman stage and, possibly , until reaching the Arab stage. Even with that, there are many doubts that will be cleared as the excavation progresses.

Confloenta, in Duratón, is one of the active deposits that are currently most interesting and that its next excavation will take place at the end of July or the beginning of August. This year there will be two extensions closely related to the site of the Roman city, which are in Sepúlveda, where it is believed that there may be a Celtiberian settlement, and that of San Miguel de Bernuy.

La Peña del Moro is another of the main sites of the year. Due to the rains, there have been a series of landslides that have revealed a few places where ceramics from the beginnings of metallurgy are located, around MM BC

In the Cerro del Torreón expeditions are beginning that point to the discovery of several phases of occupation that can go from the Bronze Age to the late medieval.

Grants
All these archaeological expeditions have had the support of the Junta and the municipalities, although many of them also have financing from private entities. One of the most important is the 'Eresma Arqueológico Project' which has participated in several of the aforementioned works.

All these expeditions seek to return to society what is theirs, the information on the history of the places. According to Luciano Municio, the provincial archaeologist "can become a point of reference in cultural tourism" in reference to these sites. The purpose, as Municio explains, is to turn these places into spaces that help citizens to learn about the history hidden in their ruins.

All these open investigations seek to become a tourist spot that can be visited by all those who wish to do so. Visits can be made at some of the sites and they already have information, such as La Peña del Moro, where there is information on the excavation and a path to follow the discoveries.

Besides, these expeditions can also be visited by citizens who wish. As Luciano Municio expresses, "in any case, an excavation does not have to be only work for the archaeologist, but a cultural fact and must be returned to their owners, the citizens."

Fields of the 2021 campaign
- Matabuey, in Nava de la Asunción.
- Paradinas, in Santa María de Nieva.
- Dolmen de Santa Inés, in Bernardos.
- Cerro de los Almadenes, in Otero de Herreros.
- Confloenta, in Duratón.
- La Peña del Moro, in Navas de Oro.
- El Berrocal, in Ortigosa del Monte.
- Las Pizarras, in Coca.
- Opidumm del Tormejon, in Armuña.
- Church of the Assumption, in Valdevacas and Gúijar.
- Cerro de San Isidro, in Domingo García.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

The Provincial Council publishes a line of aid to municipalities for the installation of service areas and overnight stays for motorhomes in the municipalities of the province

Through its Tourism body, Prodestur, the Provincial Council has published today in the Province Bulletin the regulatory bases of a line of aid for those city councils of the province interested in creating and preparing service areas and overnight stays in their municipalities. motorhomes.

The objective of this initiative, to which a budget of 30.000 euros has been allocated, is to promote inland tourism in the province of Segovia through the new trends that currently exist throughout Europe. In this way, the Provincial Council intends to regulate and develop this type of emerging activity in the territory, which will help the sustainable tourism development of the Segovian municipalities.

"What we want, through these grants, is that the towns can offer an alternative service of stay to their visitors that, at the same time, can be carried out in the most orderly, respectful and sustainable way possible," says the deputy of Prodestur, Magdalena Rodríguez, adding that the provincial institution will pay the beneficiaries of these subsidies fifty percent of the total expenses derived from the facilities, up to a maximum of 3.000 euros per municipality. These expenses, as stipulated in the bases of the call, may be attributed to actions related to simple installations that allow vehicles to provide a space for parking, a water intake or a place for emptying tanks. As an example of these would be, among others, the creation of parking areas for at least four motorhomes, the installation of both waste collection points and solar powered public lighting, the adaptation of accesses or vertical signage and horizontal of different zones.

According to the bases of the call, available in their entirety on the Prodestur website (https://segoviaturismo.es/area-profesional/ayudas-y-subvenciones-boletines-legislacion), the deadline for requesting these grants, from which those municipalities that have carried out actions of this type between January 1 and November 30 of the present 2021, will be able to benefit, will end on August 23 and will be distributed for taking into account criteria related to the existence of other service and overnight areas or camping sites for motorhomes within a radius of 20 kilometers, the location and integration of the area in the town, the tourist relevance of the municipality or the existence of hiking and cycling routes Around the area.

Aware that this type of tourism is experiencing an exponential increase and that, after the pandemic, the upward curve is expected to continue rising faster, the Provincial Council hopes to be able to contribute to the adaptation of the province to this sector of tourism, which In a special way in the last decade, its number of adapted service areas available throughout the Spanish territory has multiplied significantly. For the deputy, it is also important to emphasize "that these facilities for motorhomes do not suppose any competition for the campsites, since they are areas of passage and technical stop, which will mainly facilitate the visit to the population and the places of interest in the surroundings, and in which the stay will be limited to seventy-two hours ".

Thus, the adaptation and provision of services to these vehicles will contribute to significantly soften the seasonality that tourism usually suffers and to promote travel through the province of Segovia.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The prior reservation will govern the Henarense Jubilee Year

There are barely two weeks left until the start of the event that is already inspiring hundreds of residents of Cuéllar and the region. The Henarense Jubilee Year will begin on August 8 and all eyes are on the calendar of events that have been made by the committee in charge of its organization, the Carmelite sisters and the rector of the Shrine, Carlos García Nieto. So that all this can be carried out in a safe framework in all areas, and aware that thousands of people will visit this Marian place, yesterday the Security Board of the Henarense Jubilee Year was held, chaired by the Government sub-delegate, Lirio Martín.

One of the first premises for which they will work from the organization is that the Henarense Jubilee Year works through prior reservation. The pandemic is still present, the data are not promising and this is the reality that prevails over the jubilee. Being consistent with the act, what it requires and health security, a prior reservation system will be imposed through tickets that will govern all the main acts of this jubilee. "They will be free and numbered only to avoid inconveniences," says the rector of the Sanctuary, who emphasizes that these will only be for commemorative events and with the sole reason for security in the pandemic. One of the central themes of this Security Board, which was attended electronically by the mayor, authorities of the provincial and local Civil Guard, the Municipal Police and the Segovia Provincial Council, is the opening ceremony scheduled for the next 8 of August. Everything was set up for a "plan A"; This was explained by the rector, who after this meeting indicates that everything has been reconfigured into a "plan B". It will start from the Fuente del Cirio in a small procession, "somewhat reduced", made up of the Bishop and priests. The atrium will be reached for the official opening of the Holy Door, while the public will remain seated around it in numbered chairs. What was planned as a mass at the rear of the Shrine, with capacity for about 1.000 people, has been scrapped; the liturgical act will be held inside the church with the capacity that is currently allowed: 70 people. García explains that you are invited to reserve a chair for the outside: there will be 400 seats distributed around El Henar to listen to this inauguration Eucharist. The first idea has been discarded due to the fact that even if the public is located in the old soccer field, "there would be a call effect that is very difficult to control." Therefore, it will be necessary to reserve a numbered entry for the interior, and after 70 people, they will be located in the rest of the chairs arranged and also numbered from the outside. The entire El Henar site will be controlled and guarded: all entrances will have access control personnel to avoid crowds. Residents will have special access permits.

This is the main event that was studied, analyzed and organized again in the Security Board, as well as the flamenco recital that will host the cloister of the Sanctuary on the 6th. There will be limited capacity as for any cultural event, arranged in 150 people that they will have numbered chairs.

The jubilee is about to begin and, for now, in its first stage it will be marked by the anti-covid regulations that are set from higher levels. "El Henar has a great attraction and security must be controlled," commented the rector, aware that all acts already have great expectations, but common sense must prevail and preserve integrity and health. On the 8th the journey begins, which is expected full of emotion.

PILGRIMAGE AND PROCESSIONS, WAITING

The Jubilee Year projects different activities and all of them have the expectation of the public, but if there are central events that already have the attention of the neighborhood, they are the pilgrimage and processions, as well as the novenas of El Henar. The rector of the Sanctuary advances that they already have the preachers for the Novenas in honor of the Virgin; It will not be a single preacher, but archpriests and vicars of the provinces of Valladolid and Segovia. For the Eucharist on the day of the feast of El Henar, it will be the bishop himself, César Franco, who will give his words to the attendees on such an important day.

However, any mass celebration remains in the air. The pilgrimage as it was known until 2019 is, at the moment, not very viable, but everything is awaiting the evolution of the data. "Processions as such, we still cannot celebrate," the rector comments with resignation. The hope is that there are still two months left for these key days, in the hope that the situation improves and there are more possibilities.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

La Tierra de Pinares received the participants of the third appointment of the program proposed by the Provincial Council 'Viajero, yo te teando Segovia'

The Segovia Provincial Council took the participants of its 'Traveler, I will teach you Segovia' program to surround themselves with grain and irrigated crops in Tierra de Pinares, in two of the most significant municipalities in the area: Fuentepelayo and Carbonero el Mayor. From the hand of the official tour guides, fifteen visitors discovered this weekend the intrahistory of these places and their most representative heritage.

The visit, which lasted approximately two hours, began in Fuentepelayo, a municipality surrounded by pine forests where the well-known Angel Fair is still held every year. This town, of medieval origin, previously depended directly on the Bishopric of Segovia, as tourists learned.

Afterwards, the group went to a typical Castilian square and there they visited the interior of the monumental church of Santa María, which, although it is of Romanesque origin, was enlarged during the Gothic period. Next, the procession visited the church of El Salvador with its beautiful Mudejar armor and the Popayán park, dedicated to the flora of the province of Segovia.

The second 'emblem' of the area to visit was Carbonero el Mayor, one of the main towns in this part of the province, whose evolution is closely linked to the Community of City and Land of Segovia. Here, the guides talked about the privileged geographical situation in which the municipality is located, in the center of the province, and how this factor has influenced the traditional trades, including the production of coal, which gave rise to the own name of the town. The expedition culminated its route inside the church of San Juan Bautista, of Mudejar origin and later extended during the Gothic and Baroque periods. In this temple, the altarpiece of the main altar stands out, a pictorial jewel from the beginning of the XNUMXth century, and the remains of emblazoned houses, which captured the attention of visitors.

The next visit of the campaign will be on July 24 through Tierra de Románico and Ovejas Churras, where participants will discover Fuentidueña and Sacramenia and will be able to contemplate the incredible views offered by the viewpoints, the Duratón valley and the church of Santa María la Mayor. The appointment will end in Sacramenia, where they will visit the Romanesque church of Santa Marina and its fantastic paintings inside. Since, among the objectives of this initiative is also to boost the economic and business fabric of the province, this outing will include a visit to the Bodegas Zarraguilla.

Reservations can be made on the website of the autonomous body of Tourism of the Provincial Council, www.segoviaturismo.es, until 23:XNUMX p.m. on Friday, July XNUMX and with a maximum number of four people per reservation. The registration fee is three euros per person.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The Royal Factory will be a National Reference Center

Despite the pandemic, which has not prevented the furnaces from staying on, the strategic plan to revitalize the 2019th-century Royal Glass Factory of La Granja, which has also remained open despite the health crisis, has progressed significantly. notable since its presentation in December XNUMX. Its new director, Javier Ramos Guallart, manager of the School of Cultural Heritage, already shows the first results, including physical ones, with new spaces for leisure and events and the adaptation of the opening of a street pedestrian, Los Vidrieros.

In a conversation with this newspaper, Javier Ramos, together with the president of the Public Sector Foundation National Glass Center, Andrés Ortega García, announced with satisfaction the request of the Ministry of Education to house in this unique space in Europe, begun to build in 1770 by order of Carlos III, the National Reference Center for Industrial Glass. In the process of preparing the documentation, with the prospect of opening it in 2022, it means having a center for research, training of young people and training of trainers and experimentation with some techniques, such as hydrogen as fuel, that large factories do not still use. "We can be like the laboratory where they can test their compositions," Ramos clarifies.

The list of objectives is long, both commercial and new infrastructures for an installation that depends on a foundation, with a budget of 1,5 million euros, this year, apart from extraordinary investments, starting with the million euros that is to point of awarding the Ministry of Culture for the pavement of the pedestrian street of Los Vidrieros. It will be a must for visitors arriving from the Palace, after touring the lower part of the Royal Site and leaving the bus area after passing through the Glass Factory, which will have a store for products at its main entrance. more exclusive and another at the exit of the walk with cheaper pieces, apart from artisan workshops. Awarded to an external company, thinking that next year will be a normal exercise, four weddings have already been celebrated, with another five planned already this year, apart from the presentation of a new model of a car brand, where, apart from the banquet halls, an outdoor area for cocktails, two cafeterias and original bathrooms coexist. These facilities can be exploited by the factory when there are no events.

Ramos explains that "people are surprised by what they see when they enter here, the character of the factory, the domes, the chimneys, real industrial unknown spaces, decorated with pieces from the factory." In addition, a residence with 30 double rooms with bathroom is finished, destined to any group that wishes to hold congresses, seminars, events, wedding guests or families who want to spend the weekend and see the factory.

If spaces for activities that generate income have been increased, the idea of the management is to go from the current 39 jobs to the hundred that existed before the ERE of the year 2000. With an eye on international markets such as the Middle East and Mexico and a positive balance In terms of the economy of the store open in Madrid, during the Christmas season, the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja will have its own space in the luxury brands area in the English Court of Paseo de la Castellana, at the end of the summer.

Andrés Ortega highlights the communication policy, to show the world the activity and also give visibility to the people who work there, as well as the support of both the central State Administration and the Junta de Castilla y León, even with an endowment extraordinary special that is being configured, of the Provincial Council and the City Council of the Real Sitio that, being the employer that contributes less economically, makes many efforts in favor of the foundation, according to its president.

Source: The Day of Segovia

The BIC declaration of Cerro de Los Almadenes is "imminent"

The declaration of the Cerro de Los Almadenes de Otero de Herreros site as a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC), in the category of 'Archaeological Zone', is "imminent". This was stated last week by one of the co-directors of the excavations, Mariano Ayarzagüena, who together with Pilar San Clemente and Santiago Valiente are directing the twelfth excavation campaign in Otero during this month of July. The City Council of Otero de Herreros requested a few years ago the BIC declaration of Cerro de Los Almadenes, as it is one of the most important mining-metallurgical archaeological sites in Spain due to the durability of the exploitation and the magnitude of the remains preserved.

To favor and promote this declaration and the enhancement of this 6,4-hectare site, the City Council this year acquired the land where the main prospects are located, taking a further step to be able to develop the works and further consolidating the project . The parcels that occupy the site have been fenced off to delimit the land; Meanwhile, the process to become a BIC is being processed, as well as the conservation and revaluation of the important finds that have been produced in these years of excavations. Groups of architects are already working on the ground to carry out their enhancement projects and for the years to come so that Segovians and visitors can enjoy their heritage. “Conservation is a very important aspect. If what you discover is not preserved, the site remains unprotected. It is up to the administrations that work, and we know that they are working on it. The area of the ovens, which is the first thing that was discovered, is what will first be protected, restored and exposed. Then the walls, which deteriorate more slowly, and before the clays and adobes, which will begin to be protected very soon ”, explained Pilar San Clemente.

Meanwhile, two teams of archaeologists continue to work this month on the Cerro, in three areas. On the one hand, re-excavating in the area where last year the “ornamental base” of a column of imported marbles was discovered. In this sense, Pilar San Clemente comments that this type of marble did not exist in the Iberian Peninsula, "and specialists from the UNED have told us that they probably come from quarries in Ephesus or Turkey."

Archaeologists think that another base may appear next to another of the site's walls, in better condition than the one found last year, discovered in a quarry area. “It is one of the things we want to see this year –explains Ayarzagüena–, apart from contextualizing it, since an elaborate black floor has appeared, quite luxurious, which makes us think that this led to a vineyard cell, which before was not just any thing. Based on what we have found so far, this would be the most luxurious part of the site. "

Another area in which they work is that of the wall, which they have come to call the wall, given its size, of about 140 centimeters, where the seated lady appeared on its steps in 2019, and the head that could correspond to it, in 2020, as well as a large amount of limestone. In this regard, they are also investigating whether any of these limestones had remains of a carving or another piece. "We have to see if we find any other remains that are compatible with a kind of carving with an adhesive that we found this week and give us an idea of what the sculpture could be like," says Ayarzagüena.

The team of archaeologists focuses, especially this year, on the structures of the Cerro de Los Almadenes site, which reveal the great dimensions of this archaeological space, another of the Roman settlements that the province of Segovia has, which will soon be will be able to visit.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

A new access to the Royal Site that puts the Gardens at the door of the house

The Alfonso XII gate, at the end of Calle Calandria, at the intersection with Calvario, has been closed for over a hundred years, and it's a shame. Just 100 meters from the Plaza de los Dolores, in the historic center of La Granja, it connects through a secluded path lined with lime trees with the heart of the Jardines del Real Sitio.

The door has been closed until July 15, when responding to a historical demand from farmers, National Heritage has turned it into a secondary access to the Royal Sites, with a sentry box for the operator in charge of controlling access and a walkway that avoids steps and -another advance- makes it accessible for wheelchairs, personnel with reduced mobility ...

Llanos Castellanos, president of Patrimonio, with the mayor, Samuel Alonso, and the subdelegate, Lirio Martín, as witnesses, proceeded at 13:00 p.m. on June 15 to open the restored gate with the old key, henceforth, open on Monday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 20:30 p.m.

The importance of the event is twofold, opening a second access, on the one hand, but on the other, leading to the center of La Granja apart from the 700.000 visitors that congregate annually in the gardens. In this way, instead of concentrating the bulk of tourism in the surroundings of Plaza España (La Granja Alta, as the neighbors call it), a direct connection is opened with bars, restaurants, shops and also the "other jewel ”granjeña, the Royal Glass Factory. And it is that to date the gardens and the old town center lived urbanistically back to back. To go back and forth from one area to another it took a long journey, almost a kilometer along the esplanade, to reach the other end of town. Now, the Plaza de los Dolores is 100 meters away. And another incentive, the access will give to one of the less known and traveled areas, El Potosí. From where, and as I said, Castellanos, the neighbors are thus allowed to have a park - and not just any park! - a few meters from home.

A historical vindication
It is a historical demand. In fact, it did not appear in the initial plans and it was opened at the end of the 1874th century, in XNUMX. At least that is the date that the Castellarnau Society, which has documented the space, dates as the year in which several owners of estates in the Real Sitio obtained permission to open the door that closes the Nocturnal area, to the west, in a corner of the original enclosure. They were times of Alfonso XII, hence the name of the door, also known as Calvario or La Calandria. In reality it is an entire corridor bounded by the original enclosure walls. So to speak, a double door, the one that now connects with the gardens and another interior shutter created in the original fence at the end of the path that takes you fully into the gardens.

Be that as it may, it did not prosper. Shortly after opening, access to the summer season was limited, starting in 1904 not even that. Probably complicated the task of monitoring the environment. Exceptionally, in 1932, at the insistence of the mayor, it was temporarily opened, but did not work, remaining as a service entrance not allowed to the public.

With the drafting of the tourism revitalization plan, it was evident that reopening it was an absolute priority. Since then, the plenary session has been rare in which no information was given on the status of the procedures before the National Heritage, procedures that basically ran into the investment necessary to dignify the environment, establish a booth, assign a "gatekeeper" and a vigilant. Little more.

As regards Heritage, for Samuel Alonso the new access exacerbates the need to reorder mobility along Calvario Street, which is the exit route for those who access the center of La Granja. Currently Calandria Street has two-way sections. The idea is to turn it into a one-way street, reduce parking to one side and improve pedestrian space.

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Pioneer train between pine forests

Through a private initiative, the town now has a new offer of tourism on wheels with which to discover the most remote corners and places of cultural interest

Unique in the province. This is the tourist train that already circulates through Coca and that we can only find in this Segovian municipality. It also stands out because it is accessible, it has a ramp that facilitates access for people with reduced mobility, as well as two adapted spaces, out of the 74 available.

Showing their support for the initiative, the PSOE national deputy for Segovia, José Luis Aceves, attended the inauguration yesterday; the provincial deputy for Tourism, Magdalena Rodríguez; the general secretary of the FES, Beatriz Escudero; Mariano Herrero, mayor of the town, accompanied by the councilors of the government team and a member of the Popular Group. In addition, there was no shortage of hoteliers from the municipality, as well as councilors from neighboring towns.

Moments before the vehicle was put into operation, the organization surprised the attendees with the delivery of a mask to, in front of the Castle, listen to a war anecdote blindly.

'VoyVen Coca' will have a 50-minute tour, with an urban section and another through the pine forests. “I want to give great importance to the pine forests since in Coca the job of the resin producer has a great relevance. Coca is a resin and stone town. It has its Mudejar, Roman and Celtiberian culture but people must know the importance of its pine forests ”, points out Nuria Alonso, promoter of the initiative.

It is a closed circuit that starts from the Castle, passing through the Cinco Caños until reaching the fire tower, where you can also see a resin refuge. On your return to the town, you can contemplate the wonderful view of the Cuesta del Mercado, a place where archaeological excavations are carried out and also the Torre de San Nicolás, in the background.

Once inside the urban nucleus, the main monuments are visited, as well as buildings of interest such as the Fonseca cultural center. There, visitors will learn about the history of the old glass factory that was located there.

Looking ahead, it is planned to implement a second route that, from the Castle, will bring visitors closer to the CEREBOSMA Forest Museum.

The train will have an audio guide that will provide information throughout the journey. The text has been prepared by the Cauca writer, Adolfo Rodríguez, and is voiced by the radio professional, Lola Colorado, along with the comments of the local 'Josito'.

The price is not yet marked but it will be around four or five euros. There will be a general and a reduced rate for children, retirees, the disabled and large families. Also a special price for groups. Tickets can be purchased next to the Tourist office, in front of the Castle.

This is a new form of safe leisure in Coca because, in addition to being perfectly ventilated at all times - it does not have windows - they have chosen to reduce the capacity to 50 percent despite not being strictly necessary, thus maintaining the measures of security against covid.

Initially, the train will run every day during the summer according to the Castle's opening hours. In winter it will work all weekends and holidays, and during the week it will be moved by group reservations.

Revitalize tourism
With the main objective of revitalizing tourism, Nuria Alonso and her partner, Marino Muñoz, have started this project under the name 'VoyVen Coca'. Born in Fuente el Olmo de Íscar, she resides in Navas de Oro, but has always been closely linked to Coca. She studied the last EGB courses there and later returned to establish a delegation from the Rural Women and Families Association (AMFAR), of which she is vice-president.

“With the association we have traveled to many cities and towns in Spain and the easiest way to organize a group trip was to travel to those places where there was either a tourist bus or train. This allowed us to have an overview of the entire city ”, he highlights.

Over time, the entrepreneur acquired both the trailer and the bus license. At first he thought about buying a tourist bus, but finally he opted for the train. “Every time I went to Coca, I realized the great potential that the town had. That is how I realized the need to stimulate tourism and ensure that those who come, can get to know the municipality in depth. The idea is that tourists stay as long as possible in Coca, thus encouraging them to sleep or at least eat or drink something ”.

In addition, they not only want to create a synergy with the local hospitality industry, but also with the company that runs the Castle, to be able to offer a combined package of visit to the monument and travel on the train, at a reduced price.

Finally, as Alonso has assured, they are studying the possibility of bringing the tourist train closer to neighboring towns in times of patron saint festivities if they so require.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

Sotosalbos and Trescasas welcomed the participants of the 'Traveler, I'll teach you Segovia' program, in the second outing of the calendar proposed by the Provincial Council

The municipalities of Sotosalbos and Trescasas this weekend welcomed the twenty-five participants of the second visit of the tourist program 'Viajero, yo te Teaching Segovia', who were able to observe the notorious transition in the form of architectural construction, derived from the difference between medieval and neoclassical thought.

The visit, which lasted approximately two hours, began in Sotosalbos, where, through this proposal organized by Prodestur, visitors were able to contemplate one of the jewels of Segovian Romanesque: the impressive Church of San Miguel from the XNUMXth century, in which, it is said that Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, was present as priest. Not surprisingly, in his book 'Good Love' he talks about this town.

Afterwards, the group traveled to Trescasas, where the adventure ended with a visit to the interior of the Immaculate Conception church, a sober neoclassical building with paintings by Ramón Bayeu, Goya's brother-in-law. According to the story, Carlos III had it built to hear mass when he came hunting in these lands. Thanks to the privileged location of the town, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, at the beginning of the old road to Puerto de Malagosto, this place became an important landmark of the Cañada real Soriana, so three houses were installed there of Shears.

The next visit of the campaign will be on July 17 to Fuentepelayo and Carbonero el Mayor, where the participants will surround themselves with land of pine forests, grain and irrigated crops and where they will visit the church of Santa María, of Romanesque origin and enlarged during the Gothic , and the church of El Salvador. The itinerary will culminate in Carbonero el Mayor, where visitors will discover the reason for the origin of the town's name and will take a tour of the interior of the Church of San Juan Bautista.

Reservations can be made on the website of the autonomous body of Tourism of the Provincial Council, www.segoviaturismo.es, until 16:XNUMX p.m. on Friday, July XNUMX and with a maximum number of four people per reservation. The registration fee is three euros per person.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The monuments opening program reaches 47 locations

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism launches a new 'Monuments Opening Program' for the summer months. In the province of Segovia, 56 monuments distributed in 47 locations will open to the public. The proposals to visit these cultural assets are part of five different programs: Mudejar in the South of the Duero; the monuments of the Camino de Madrid; the South Romanesque; Douro Valley and World Heritage Cities, which includes temples in the capital.

Organized through collaboration agreements with the Dioceses of Castilla y León, the Program seeks to value the historical-artistic heritage of the Community, enhancing its tourist attraction and generating economic activity through tourism. This edition will start tomorrow, Tuesday, July 13, and will last until September 12, with 410 monuments open in 331 locations throughout the Community, organized around 18 thematic proposals, based on artistic styles, geographical areas or tourist routes already consolidated.

The programs for this summer are Mudéjar south of the Duero, Arribes del Duero, Romanesque Norte, Sierras del Sur, Valle del Silencio and El Bierzo, Soria Norte, Valle del Duero, DO Toro, World Heritage Cities, Campos and Páramos. In addition, in this edition and on the occasion of the celebration of Jacobean 21-22, the promotion has been influenced, facilitating the opening of monuments in the towns through which the Roads to Santiago pass through Castilla y León, with open monuments in the following programs: Camino de Madrid, Camino Mozárabe-Sanabrés, Camino de Santiago Francés, Camino del Besaya, Camino de Santiago through Manzanal, Camino de Levante and Sureste and the Camino-Vía de la Plata.

For this year 2021, the expansion and standardization of dates that began in the last edition has been maintained. In this way, all opening programs will open from July 13 to September 12, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 11:00 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. and from 17:00 p.m. to 19:45 p.m., except in particular cases indicated in the promotional brochure, facilitating the organizational and promotional development of the same. It must be remembered that this homogenization of dates and times allowed last year an extension of 17 days in more than 60% of the open temples.

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Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

New archaeological campaign in the Roman town of Santa Lucía, in Aguilafuente

A new season of archaeological excavations has just started in the Roman town of Santa Lucía, in the municipality of Aguilafuente, within the archaeological research project linked to the continuation of the work to enhance the value of this site promoted by the Aguilafuente City Council. , in which the Junta de Castilla y León collaborates.

The works focus on the exploration of the eastern sector of the residential building from the late imperial period (70th century AD). At this point the facade of the building is located, where its main access was located. In the vicinity of this place and in the campaign of the previous year, a lobby and a polyabsidian room were identified, which could correspond to the remains of the primitive church of San Mamés, from medieval times, later dedicated to Santa Lucía at an undetermined moment of The modern age. An angle of this building was already identified in the excavations of the XNUMXs of the XNUMXth century.

Another sector whose investigation will continue is the area of the Visigoth necropolis located in the outer space of the Roman building, in its northwestern corner, where an important number of burials dated between the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries AD are concentrated. In addition to the investigation of the archaeological situation of the area, the project seeks to protect the preserved remains and the dissemination of the heritage values that the town of Santa Lucía contributes in the local environment of Aguilafuente and in the provincial complex, as an asset and opportunity for social and cultural development and economic of the territory.

The archaeological works, in which about fifteen technicians participate, will be supported by different cartography and topography works in order to collect the maximum possible documentation of the archaeological intervention as well as the archaeological area of Aguilafuente. The excavation of the Visigothic necropolis will have the support of an anthropology team linked to the Autonomous University of Madrid, which also implements a course for the training of researchers from the middle of July.

The Roman Villa of Santa Lucia
The archaeological site of Santa Lucía contains the remains of a Roman villa occupied between the High Empire and the Low Empire, with dates from the XNUMXst to XNUMXth centuries AD The place was later used as a necropolis in the High Middle Ages by a Visigoth population and, later, occupied as a Christian hermitage, with worship still in the eighteenth century and in ruins since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Although there are references to works on the exhumation of remains at the end of the 1968th century, the first systematic investigations took place between 1972 and 1993. In 2018 the Junta undertook a project to clean and refurbish the archaeological site, followed by another action by the City Council in the same sense, in XNUMX.

In 2018, the currently ongoing research project 'La villa romana de Santa Lucía (Aguilafuente, Segovia) was also presented. Settlement and territory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages', co-financed by the Aguilafuente City Council, the Provincial Council and the Board with the aim of deepening the investigation of the town itself and the settlement and organization of the territory of its area of influence in Roman and late-ancient-high medieval times.

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The blown glass technique, declared Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the Minister of Culture and Sports, has approved the Royal Decree declaring the technique of blown glass in Spain as a Representative Manifestation of Intangible Cultural Heritage. "2000 years of history, with the flourishing eighteenth century and with the Royal Factory of La Granja and Gordiola (Palma de Mallorca) as centers of reference", Minister Rodríguez Uribes congratulated on Twitter.

From the Ministry of Culture and Sports they refer to the description of this technique stating that its processes, knowledge, products, instruments and associated machinery, as well as architectural spaces present a set of historical, immaterial, technological and artistic values that deserve preservation, for being an activity linked to Spanish culture. The survival over time of the National Glass Center of the Farm stands out, as well as the Gordiola Glass in Mallorca.

In addition, individual experiences with this type of technique coexist throughout the Spanish territory, in the form of small artisan workshops, in many cases linked to museums, which seek to revitalize and give visibility to characteristic productions of centers that are already extinct. At the same time, the variety of production, which currently maintains historical models, along with new designs and a great variety of types, is of great relevance in terms of heritage recognition.

The National Glass Center Foundation, a public sector entity that manages the Royal Glass Factory, has stated in recognition of the recognition that, despite its historical and sociocultural importance, "at present this practice is threatened by external factors such as competitiveness of the industrial production of glass and other materials against this traditional technique ". In addition, they have pointed out that in the new generations there is a lack of interest in this art, which causes a situation of risk due to the decrease in the number of depositories of the necessary knowledge to maintain this craft.

"One of the purposes of the creation of the National Glass Center Foundation is the training of new specialists capable of giving continuity to those who now have in their hands the knowledge and experience necessary to continue manufacturing blown glass objects with the same techniques with those that for more than three hundred years Spain achieved the dominance of art in Europe in the handling of this extraordinary material ”, they explained.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

The Diputación discovers the Romanesque of Duratón and Sepúlveda to the participants of the first days of 'Traveler, I will teach you Segovia'

The Romanesque art of Duratón and Sepúlveda dazzled this weekend the visitors who participated in the first outing of the Provincial Council's tourist program 'Viajero, yo te te teando Segovia'. From the hand of the official tourism guides of the province, the participants discovered the history of 'The cradle of the Segovian Romanesque', and, throughout the morning, they were able to learn about the architectural wealth of the area. For more than two hours, they visited the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Duratón, one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches in the province, built during the XNUMXth century, and where they were able to admire its beautiful atrium with a spectacular collection of capitals. . Later they went to the Villa de Sepúlveda to contemplate the oldest Romanesque building in the province of Segovia, the Church of El Salvador, declared a Site of Cultural Interest.

After walking through these paradigms of the Castilian Romanesque, the visitors continued their tour of the town, in which they discovered that this municipality is part of a true paradise of cultural tourism, which leaves anyone who dares to visit it speechless. . They contemplated the Plaza Mayor, the nerve center of the town, which is dominated by the remains of its Castle. While they continued their walk through the Sepulveda streets, the guides told and explained the curiosities of some of the emblazoned houses that were found on the way, among them, the Casa del Moro, one of the most outstanding examples of palatial dwellings in the city. , which stands out for its striking Plateresque façade.

Finally, the hikers finished their tour in the Plaza Mayor where they could visit the charming shops and buy interesting articles and typical food of the area, since another of the purposes of this program is to support commerce, industry and the hotel industry to reactivate the tourism sector of the province.

The next appointment of the program will be on Saturday, July 10 in Sotosalbos and Trescasas, where participants will be able to observe the transition of architecture between medieval and neoclassical. The meeting point will be Sotosalbos, where you will find one of the Romanesque jewels of Segovia, the XNUMXth century Church of San Miguel. According to what is said in the town, Carlos III had it built to hear mass when he came hunting for these payments. The adventure will end in Trescasas where it is planned to enter the interior of the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

Reservations can be made on the website of the Autonomous Tourist Board of the Provincial Council, www.segoviaturismo.es, until 9:XNUMX pm on Friday July XNUMX and with a maximum number of four people per reservation. The registration fee is three euros per person.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The App 'Mipueblo360' will be free for local Coca businesses

With the aim of boosting tourism and local commerce, the Coca City Council has contracted the mobile application 'Mipueblo360', which will be free for all establishments, businesses and companies in the municipality for at least one year.

It should be noted that the creators of the app are locals, so they have a good understanding of the needs of the different businesses that can benefit from this project.
Within the App of 'Mipueblo360' they have created a section called 'Monuments' "which will be the head of our town, where all our excellences are highlighted", they affirm from the City Council.

The application has different sections: accommodation, bars, shops, leisure, restaurants and others.

"Over the next few weeks, those responsible for the application, Adrián and Pedro, will visit the different businesses to take 360-degree photographs and ask them for the necessary data to include their company in this interesting and necessary proposal, thought and devised to boost the economy of Coca ", stand out from the Consistory.

The 'Mipueblo360' project was born with the clear intention of resizing the world of visual advertising. They intend to capture images and treat them in a convenient way until it is possible to expose them in their due magnitude, resulting in a 360-degree panoramic photograph, with the possibility of being provided with information points and of alternating different views within the same route.

With this they achieve total freedom of movement and perfect orientation on a detailed plan of the place; rigorous historical and artistic information on heritage elements; easy navigation between panoramas thanks to intuitive customizable menus; accessibility since all the information available in the virtual visit can also be heard in audio format; Detailed, high-resolution images for the points of special interest of the visit and, finally, detailed written and audio information in four languages (Spanish, English, German and French).

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

Archaeological Site of Santa Lucía - Florentino Trapero

New campaign of excavation of the archaeological site of Santa Lucía.

The fourth excavation campaign at the archaeological site of Santa Lucía, directed by Santiago Martínez, director of the Museum of Segovia, and Juan José Palao Vicente, professor at the University of Salamanca, and promoted by the Aguilafuente City Council, begins next Monday July 5 until Sunday 25 with the aim of continuing with the research and enhancement of said deposit.

The work on this occasion will focus on different points, such as the eastern sector, in relation to the interesting structures found in the last campaign of 2020, belonging to the entrance of the Roman villa under imperial from the XNUMXth century. Another important sector of intervention will be the northwestern one, where the remains of the medieval church of San Mamés are found, replaced in the Modern Age by the hermitage of Santa Lucía, which, although identified from the first excavations, will be explored in greater depth. which will determine the occupation of the area in the post-Roman period. Likewise, a part of the Visigoth necropolis, from the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries, will be excavated in the space outside the residence. We will also continue to delve into the open areas in previous campaigns in search of the oldest stratigraphies, since structures belonging to the time of the High Roman Empire were already located in them, around the XNUMXst and XNUMXnd century BC and therefore much earlier than the great late Roman town that is known. Finally, archaeological prospecting work will continue in the town's territory, in order to define its exploitation and management areas, which will provide a greater understanding not only of this site but also of other minor sites from this period.

The archaeological work will be supported by different tools, such as traditional cartography and topography, and technological ones, such as photogrammetry, LiDAR analysis, GIS, etc. These tools will provide more documentation on the archaeological intervention and the entire area. There will also be the support of an anthropology team, linked to the Autonomous University of Madrid.

To learn first-hand about the findings of this new excavation campaign, at 10:00 am on Fridays and Saturdays in July, there will be free guided tours of the site by the team of excavation technicians. To these is added, as a closing of the campaign, the closing visit by the director of the excavation, Santiago Martínez, on Saturday, July 24 at 20:00 p.m.
The groups for these visits have a limited capacity, so it is essential to reserve a place in advance at the Aguilafuente cultural spaces telephone number 605 842 481 or at the City Council telephone number 921 572 038.

After the visits, it is possible to enjoy the largest collection of mosaics in the province of Segovia extracted from this site between 1968 and 1972 that are in the Archaeological Hall of Aguilafuente, located in the Romanesque church of San Juan, declared BIC in 1994. This classroom is open to visitors on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings from 11:00 to 14:00 and also on Saturday afternoons from 17:00 to 19:00. There is also the possibility of visiting this space from Tuesday to Thursday morning with an arranged visit. In addition, the Archaeological Classroom is about to present a new piece of the quarter, it is a brick fragment with a dog's footprint -canis lupus familiaris- from the Roman town of Santa Lucía, which will be presented by the archaeologist Alvar Ruiz Herrán on Saturday, July 10.

In addition, on Fridays there is also the possibility of visiting the exhibition of the sculptor Florentino Trapero where a good part of the work of this great artist from Aguilafuente is preserved. With the visit to this space, we will delve into the depths of the sculptor's workshop to be able to enjoy the process of sculptural creation through sketches and plasticine or plaster molds, among other materials. Guided passes will be on Fridays at 11:00; 11:40; 12:20; 13:00 and 13:40. It is important to make an appointment by calling the aforementioned telephones, just as if you intend to visit the exhibition at a different time, except on Mondays.

The offer of guided visits to the cultural spaces of Aguilafuente is complemented by a wide cultural program aimed at all audiences such as concerts, workshops and talks. The finishing touch will be the celebration of the XIX edition of the Aguilafuente Synodal on July 30 and 31 and August 1. A historical recreation that recalls and makes known to the public the Synod that was held in this town in 1472 and that resulted in the first book printed in Spain. These days Aguilafuente returns 549 years ago with theatrical performances, guided tours, a medieval market, music, dance, ... that make us feel what was experienced at that time in the town. Work is already underway on this new edition, with special care to comply with all current sanitary measures.

Without a doubt, this month of July is a good time to get to know and appreciate this small town in the heart of the province of Segovia.

The Diputación de Segovia values the work of the official tourism guides of the province with a new campaign of 'Traveler, I will teach you Segovia'

The Segovia Provincial Council continues to implement its ReinvenTa2 Plan in order to reactivate tourism in the province and, for the second consecutive year, will launch the 'Traveler, I will teach you Segovia' initiative to value the work of the official Tourism guides of the province and support this group that has been one of the most punished in the last year.

The deputy of Tourism, Magdalena Rodríguez and the president of the Association of Tourism Guides of Segovia, Raúl Rascón have presented this morning the program for the next months and that consists of twenty-five tourist visits that will take place from July 3 to December 19 for twenty-five weekends (25 Saturdays and 17 Sundays). In this way, the provincial institution has signed an agreement with the association "so that Segovians and visitors can know all the corners of our province and also we can give that impulse that this sector so punished by the pandemic and perimeter closures deserves", such and as Magdalena Rodríguez has indicated. In this sense, the deputy has delved into the idea that "at the same time that we support this sector, we make known unknown corners for many and we help companies and businesses established in the towns of Segovia so that with these visits they can make visible their products and businesses and tourists can buy their products, not only on the day of the visit, but also have it as a reference for the future. " For this reason, the provincial institution has increased aid to this association by 7.000 euros compared to last year, amounting to 10.000 euros of direct aid to the sector.

The routes will allow you to get to know the medieval architecture, nature, historical, landscape, archaeological and industrial monuments of the province and, as a novelty this year, Bernardos and Martín Muñoz de las Posadas are joining the visits. As Rodríguez explained, "there will be a total of fifteen routes and forty-two exits, since the most popular in the last edition will be repeated up to three times." These are: The cradle of the Segovian Romanesque, Duratón and Sepúlveda; Between the town and the palace, Valsaín and the Granja de San Ildefonso and A la vera de la Sierra, Requijada and Pedraza. Undoubtedly, "visiting these places with the help of professionals and being able to visit places that are normally closed to the public or that are more difficult to visit if you travel on your own, are added values to the resources of each area".

In the last edition, the restrictions meant that the groups were very small, however, this year they may already be made up of thirty people, "for this reason, we want to give the opportunity for everyone who was left with the desire last year, this year you can enjoy these fantastic and documented visits, where you will discover stories and anecdotes that almost certainly, even if you know the place, you will not know ".

Those interested should make a reservation request on the PROdesur website, www.segoviaturismo.es and the people accepted will subsequently receive an email with the conditions of the visit, the price per person being three euros. Like last year, the participants will go in private vehicles staying at a starting point from where the route will be made "because we believe that it may be one more attraction that rural accommodations in the province can offer tourists throughout the summer and autumn, to enhance overnight stays ".

The first outing, on the weekend of July 3 and 4, will be the Segovian Romanesque Cradle, where one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches in the province from the XNUMXth century will be shown, the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. Churras sheep will also be known and they will be surrounded by living nature in the lands between pine forests and the edge of the Segovian mountains, as well as they will be able to see the brick architecture of Coca Castle or the Church of San Baudilio. The last of those scheduled will visit the municipalities of Bernardos and Martín Muñoz de las Posadas, a route that is presented as a novelty compared to the last edition.

Therefore, with this campaign, 'Traveler, I will teach you Segovia', "the Provincial Council aims to boost tourism in the province, extend knowledge of our own resources, offering local tourism to Segovians, knowing secrets as it says in our promotional videos that were always there and that until now we had not been able to see and encourage outsiders to discover the province of Segovia ", summarized Magdalena Rodríguez.

ROUTE CALENDAR

1 THE CRADLE OF THE ROMANESQUE SEGOVIANO: Duratón and Sepúlveda July 3 and 4, October 16 and 17, December 4 and 5
2 TRANSITION BETWEEN MEDIEVAL AND NEOCLASICISM: Sotosalbos and Trescasas July 10
3 ENTRE PINARES: Fuentepelayo and Carbonero el Mayor July 17
4 BY LAND OF ROMANESQUE AND SHEEP CHURRAS: Fuentidueña and Sacramenia July 24 and 25, October 23 and 24
5 SERRANA AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE: Riaza and Ayllón July 31 and August 01
6 MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE: Maderuelo and Languilla August 7
7 VILLA AND TIERRA DE CUÉLLAR: Sanctuary of Henar and Cuéllar August 14 and 15, October 30 and 31
8 THE CATHEDRAL OF THE SIERRA AND THE LAND OF THE GABARREROS: Villacastín and El Espinar August 21
9 BETWEEN THE TOWN AND THE PALACE: Valsaín and La Granja de San Ildefonso August 28 and 29, December 11 and 12
10 BY THE SIERRA SEGOVIANA: Collado Hermoso and Navafría September 4
11 A LA VERA DE LA SIERRA: Requijada and Pedraza September 11 and 12, November 6 and 7, December 18 and 19
12 VILLAS DE OBISPOS: Turégano, Aguilafuente and Escalona del Prado September 18
13 THE ARCHITECTURE OF BRICK: Samboal and Coca September 25 and 26, November 13 and 14
14 THE SEGOVIAN COUNTRYSIDE, FROM THE MONASTERY TO THE WINERY: Santa María la Real de Nieva and Nieva October 2 and 3, November 20 and 21
15 THE ROYAL ROADS: Martín Muñoz de las Posadas and Bernardos October 9 and November 27

Bonuses 'ReinvenTa2 your vacations' SOLD OUT

On April 28 began the new discount voucher campaign that the Provincial Council's Tourism area launched to encourage spending in the tourism sector of the province of Segovia and that was born with a double objective; on the one hand, promoting the arrival of tourists to our province, and on the other, increasing the mobility of Segovians themselves through our province. The ultimate goal was, therefore, "for the tourist entrepreneur in our province to regain normalcy as soon as possible with the arrival of customers," said the deputy who announced at the press conference the resounding success of the campaign that has counted with overwhelming support from visitors who "in less than two months have exhausted the budget of 50.000 euros set aside for the campaign."

From the beginning of the campaign until today, 1.677 vouchers have been managed, of which 394 have been for accommodation, 1.180 for restaurants and 129 for activities in the province; and more than 7.300 people have benefited from these discounts, who have consumed them in the 122 accommodations, 36 restaurants and 12 active tourism companies adhered to the campaign throughout the province.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

Pedraza one of the most beautiful towns in Spain

According to National Geographic, Pedraza is considered one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Spain.

This entity has published a list of the most beautiful medieval towns in Spain, one of the best preserved and rehabilitated with several awards that accredit it.

Further information: Segoviaudaz

Rural and Active Tourism hopes to improve the figures this summer

The president of the Rural and Active Tourism Association of Segovia, Gerardo Otero assures that they are living a strange June, the entrepreneurs of this group hope to be able to work as a normal year as soon as possible.

Further information: The Adelantado of Segovia.

"5 days of El Dorado"

From today June 21 until next Friday 25, begins the campaign "5 days of El Dorado" that has 22 restaurants associated with Procose both in the Capital and the Province and even in Madrid at half the price that appears in the letter.

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The Board's tourist vouchers, available from September 15

The Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Raúl Fernández Sobrino, confirmed today that the regional government will make available to tourists between September 15 and May 31, 2022 the tourist vouchers, a personal and non-transferable prepaid card, co-financed between the applicant and the Board, whose objective is "the seasonal adjustment of tourism in the Community."

This was stressed in a telematic meeting that he held today together with the general director of Heritage, Gumersindo Bueno, and the general director of Tourism, Estrella Torrecilla, with various public positions of Ciudadanos Castilla y León.

Within the promotion of heritage, the aid for archaeological research and innovation projects in Castilla y León and the new BIC recognition policy stood out. On the one hand, Fernández Sobrino pointed out that "it seeks to promote research on the past of Castilla y León through the application of archaeological methodology, in order to generate and transfer scientific knowledge." And on the other hand, he pointed out that it is intended to resolve the more than 80 files initiated decades ago, "in order to comply with the planned program", to complete the documentation and procedures that the current regulations mark, and that increase legal security and social participation.

As explained in that talk, the launch of the Network of Cultural Centers of the Junta de Castilla y León and the Castilla y León Culture Program seeks to “promote the network of cultural centers in the Community and enhance their value as living and open spaces. to society, favoring a culture that is closer and more open to participation ”. All of this together with a new strategy for festivals and aid aimed at financing production and internationalization projects for the publishing sector in Castilla y León.

Source: Segoviaudaz

The Real Sitio City Council once again announces direct aid for the tourism sector

The City Council of the Real Sitio de San Ildefonso summons direct aid for the tourism sector, one of the most punished as a result of the health crisis caused by Covid 19.

With the aim of protecting and providing economic support directly to freelancers and companies whose main activity is framed in tourist activity, in order to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on their economic viability by helping them to maintain their activity and employment, and facilitating thus your recovery.

The tourism sector is one of the main economic sectors of the Real Sitio and currently has more than a hundred companies related to tourism, among which are active tourism companies, accommodation, restaurant companies, tourist guides and agencies. travel.

In the last month and after the completion of the perimeter closure, the economic activity related to the services sector is gradually recovering its activity. Thus, and according to the data published by the SEPE, unemployment during the month of May fell by 13%. Of the personnel who have returned to working life, 90% belong to the service sector.

The credit authorized to meet the spending commitments derived from this call is 36.000,00 euros. The amount of the aid will be € 400 per activity. The expenses to be subsidized refer to the period basically affected by the state of alarm, contemplating the following:

Amortization installments and interest on the mortgage loans that have to be paid by the self-employed person or the company corresponding to the establishment where the tourist activity takes place.
The rental costs of premises where the tourist activity takes place.
Supplies of electricity, gas, heating oil and telecommunications.
The insurances that affect the activity, prorated to the eligible period, and the expenses of tax and accounting advice.
Expenses related to the improvement of marketing systems,
Social Security fees,
Costs of maintenance and use of POS terminals or acquisition or installation of COVID prevention furniture
This new aid is added to the battery of aid granted by the City Council to local companies, the self-employed and individuals since the beginning of the health crisis.

Tourism has become a determining factor in the growing outsourcing of the local economy. The versatility and transversality of this sector make it a highly dynamic activity and strategic axis for the local productive system, generating economy and employment both in La Granja and in Valsaín.

Source: Segoviaudaz

The Provincial Council's Tourism body promotes the province's tourism and gastronomic offer at the Spanish Art Week held in Estonia

The Segovia Provincial Council continues to promote its tourism and gastronomic offer in Estonia during the main events of the Spanish Art Week, which is held in Tallinn until June 20 and completes the participation of the tourist organization Prodestur in the centenary commemoration events of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Estonia and Spain.

Prodestur, which already took part in the inauguration of the event at the beginning of April, collaborates with the Junta de Castilla y León and the Fundación Museo Ignacio Zuloaga in the exhibition 'Zuloaga. Alma de España '-which can be visited at the Mikkeli Museum in Tallinn until next September 9- and yesterday had a presence in a new act in which, in addition to showing content related to Zuloaga's work, different products such as wines were tasted , sausages, cheeses, patés and pasta, provided by the Provincial Council through Alimentos de Segovia.

The celebration of these hundred years of political and economic relations between the two countries is causing an important media impact that is contributing to the projection of Spanish culture in the North European country. Not surprisingly, the opening of the exhibition, which had to be held - due to the rebound in Covid19 infections in Estonia - live via the Internet from the website of the Estonian Art Museum (KUMU), attracted the interest of many spectators and Estonian media, which have been promoting the relevance of the exhibition and interest in the painter's work.

During the time the exhibition is open, the Museum will have brochures and video projections on the province provided by Prodestur in which you can see the landscapes that conquered the Eibar painter.

In addition, in July, the Estonian national television, which visited Segovia at the invitation of the Tourism body of the provincial institution, will broadcast a report on Turégano, Sepúlveda, Pedraza and the capital; enclaves chosen by the artist to show the essence and the Castilian spirit.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

Those attending the Barcelona B-Travel Fair know about the 'ReinvenTa2 your holidays' vouchers and the rest of the tourist proposals of the Provincial Council for the province

After a year of pandemic, the tourist body of the Segovia Provincial Council, Prodestur, has once again presented its proposals at the B-Travel Fair, held this weekend at the Fira de Barcelona, within the Montjuïc fairgrounds.

Prodestur has attended this event, which has welcomed more than ten thousand people, with the aim of promoting and making known all the tourist products of the province and, especially, the discount voucher campaign 'ReinvenTa2 your vacations'. As the deputy, Magdalena Rodríguez, has highlighted, "for Prodestur it is very important to attend all the fairs under the umbrella of the Junta de Castilla y León, since it offers us the possibility of approaching a more direct audience, so this was an essential event to promote our province ".

Throughout the three days during which the fair has lasted, the information of the provincial institution has been exhibited inside a counter stand of one hundred square meters, where visitors could access the offers, both in paper format, as in QR codes, and consult all the tourist products of the province and its localities.

Like the Madrid International Tourism Fair (FITUR), this event is one of the most important on the Spanish tourism calendar, encompassing one of the most interesting markets for the province of Segovia. According to Rodríguez, after the event "it has been found that monumental tourism continues to rise and that people are still interested in this sector."

Among the most consulted places in the province at the fair, the Granja de San Idelfonso, Sepúlveda and Pedraza stood out. After B-Travel, the tourist body of the Provincial Council will continue to reestablish its presence in the different fairs, with the aim of promoting and boosting tourism in the province and thus reactivate the recovery of this activity in the Segovian municipalities.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

New measures against Covid-19 for the Tourism Sector of the Junta de Castilla y León

The Board will equate the conditions of rural inns and hotels to those of urban ones

The general director of Tourism of the Junta de Castilla y León, Estrella Torrecilla, responded yesterday to an owner of a rural hotel in the province of Ávila that the regional administration is in the process of approving shortly a softening of the security measures against the covid that this specific type of accommodation must comply with. The autonomic person in charge - who yesterday went to Segovia to the inauguration of the nine headquarters of the Hotuse-AIHS provincial group - specified that what the Board is going to request from Health is the "equalization" of the conditions of the inns and rural hotels to those that currently govern the activity of urban establishments.

Before the meeting held yesterday by the different hotel and tourism associations of the community, the Avila owner regretted that the restrictions on rural accommodation "are crushing us." According to the traffic light that evaluates the epidemiological risk situation due to the coronavirus pandemic, the entire region is at level 2. This means that rural tourism has to limit the maximum number of people housed to twelve, being able to share facilities at most two groups of stable coexistence. The general director of Tourism conveyed the will of the Castilian and Leonese Executive to "try to go from two to three groups or even four."

Torrecilla also announced the launch of a line of aid of two million euros only for travel agencies. Likewise, the release "in autumn" of some vouchers to encourage inland tourism that will run until May 31, 2022. National travelers and those from the region that choose Castilla y León will be able to enjoy a 50% discount on expenses, which will increase to 60% if they manage the destination through a travel agency.

Source: North of Castilla Segovia

The Real Sitio adheres to the World Biological Corridor

The City Council of the Real Sitio de San Ildefonso approved in the last plenary session unanimously to join the World Biological Corridor. It is an international project that promotes a continuous area as an ecological belt around the planet with green and blue infrastructure, uniting countries, people, plants and animals, jungles, forests and reserves, in short, natural spaces.

In this initiative, the land where the different habitats are sustained is fundamental as part of the natural heritage that encompasses in a very important way the geological heritage of the different areas. The importance of the types of soils and rock formations that define essential characteristics, both for the survival of flora and fauna and that, depending on their properties, ensure the survival of the species while maintaining a very high biodiversity, is taken into consideration. important, creating a continuous global biodiversity pathway.

The main objective of this project is to create a meeting space, synergies, alliances, ideas and projects in different parts of the planet. It is not only about reforesting degraded habitats, but also about protecting and conserving natural habitats in good condition, such as jungles, savannas, marine habitats of kelp forests, reefs, areas of high geological interest, and introducing in this corridor the rehabilitations of spaces affected by extractive activities, considered as new anthropic spaces created by man, which are contributing to the generation of new sustainable habitats where significant biodiversity has been established.

The World Biological Corridor project encompasses the five continents, and great personalities such as the Honorary President, Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas participate in its International Committee.

The Real Sitio de San Ildefonso celebrated World Environment Day with this adhesion proposal that it will carry out soon and that allows to bet on the awareness of the citizen in relation to environmental issues.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

The Segovia Provincial Council will promote its tourist bets in the province at the B-Travel Fair in Barcelona

The tourism body of the Segovia Provincial Council, Prodestur, will promote from June 11 to 13 at the B-Travel Fair in Barcelona all the tourist attractions of the province of Segovia. The event takes place at Fira Barcelona, the Montjuïc fairgrounds, and, as the deputy, Magdalena Rodríguez, has highlighted "we could not stop presenting the proposals of our province in what is the great tourism fair of experiences and travel reservations, which we have been in for more than a decade, year after year. " Although its usual date of celebration is in the month of March, last year it had to be suspended due to the pandemic and, this time it has been moved to June to guarantee health security.

The tourist body of the Provincial Council will focus its efforts on making known all the tourist products of the province: active tourism, monumental, gastronomic, family, archaeological, rural tourism, nature tourism, bicycle tourism, astrotourism, industrial tourism, all tourist locations in the province.

As happened at the Madrid International Tourism Fair, "although we will carry all the promotional material on paper, visitors will have all our offer in QR codes to capture all the information they need," Rodríguez stressed.

Prodestur attends the fair by the hand of the Junta de Castilla y León, which attends with a 100 m2 stand decorated with images of the Roads to Santiago, as this year is Xacobeo 2021. The B-Travel International Tourism Show is a Unmissable appointment for travel lovers and is a great showcase for all people who want to plan their getaways.

The deputy concluded by stating that "Catalonia is a territory of great interest for the province of Segovia, after the Community of Madrid and the Basque Country, so it is one of the most interesting markets in terms of rural tourism." For this reason, the Provincial Council will promote the discount voucher campaign 'ReinvenTa2 your holidays' especially at this fair.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

'Hoces de Segovia': from Duratón to Riaza

The destination chosen by the provincial institution for the development of the tourism sustainability plan includes the municipalities of Sepúlveda, Sebúlcor, Carrascal del Río, Maderuelo or Riaza, among others.

'Hoces de Segovia' is the new tourism sustainability plan presented by the Provincial Council with the aim of promoting the tourist development of Hoces del Río Duratón, those of the Riaza and the town of Riazana. The proposal, presented in the category of 'Rural destinations and / or in protected natural areas' of the Sustainable Tourism Program in Destinations, dependent on the Secretary of State for Tourism of the Government of Spain, is made up of six strategic lines of action and 38 actions, with a budget of around three million euros with the co-financing of the Secretary of State for Tourism, the Junta de Castilla y León and the provincial institution.

The destination chosen by the provincial institution for the development of the plan includes, among others, the municipalities of Sepúlveda, Sebúlcor, Carrascal del Río, Maderuelo or Riaza; an area that stands out for the richness of its natural heritage, as it houses the Hoces del Río Duratón and Las Hoces del Río Riaza Natural Parks and has more than 40% of its surface in the Natura 2000 Network, including areas of special protection for birds and places of community interest. In turn, the cultural heritage of the chosen destination is very well represented, with 14 Assets of Cultural Interest (BIC), among which we can mention the Monastery of La Hoz and the Hermitage of San Frutos, in addition to different Romanesque ensembles of The villages.

In the presentation of the plan, which took place this Wednesday, the president of the Provincial Council, Miguel Ángel de Vicente, specified that among the concerns that encompass the tourist proposal is "stopping" the depopulation process through the "productive fabric" and "the environmental and cultural values ”. In the words of De Vicente, the plan can provide a double opportunity to "revitalize the area with sustainable tourism that addresses diversity, non-seasonal employment and seeks population settlement."

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Presentation of the Tourism Sustainability Plan of the province
The plan foresees carrying out actions focused on the promotion, marketing and management of the destination, and contemplates both the development of different tourist information tools and the holding of various training sessions for the business sector. On the other hand, the execution of different accessibility and energy efficiency actions in facilities, public spaces and monuments is also planned.

Cycling routes
In short, cycling mobility makes up another of the main axes of the plan presented, by proposing new mountain bike routes that, among other things, would link the two Natural Parks, as well as new hiking routes and the improvement and development of the 'Ruta del Colour'. Finally, it is expected that this project can serve to improve the environment of the destination, through cleaning interventions on the banks of the Riaza River and the Duratón River.

Pending
According to De Vicente, the resolution of this ordinary call for the Sustainable Tourism Program in Destinations will be published, predictably, at the end of June, at which time the provincial institution will know whether or not it can carry out the plan. In addition, the president of the Provincial Council pointed out that the institution contemplates the possible presentation of the 'Hoces de Segovia' plan to the next extraordinary calls of the Program, in case this project was not the chosen one on this occasion, which will see its Budgetary allocation thanks to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan that channels European aid funds.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

The sources of the Farm will have 46 days of operation this summer

The sources of the Farm will operate a total of 46 days between May 30 and August 25 in two routes that will alternate by weeks in which four sources would be turned on per day on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 17.30 p.m. The first tour will begin on June 2, with the lighting of the Canastillo, Ranas, Baños de Diana and La Fama fountains, while the second will begin the following week including the Canastillo, the Eight streets, Ranas, Baños de Diana and the Fame. Visits to these shows, with a single price of 4 euros, will be limited to a maximum of 200 people, always wearing masks and maintaining distances between people of 1,5 meters.

The fountain has been put into operation during the presentation of the new season.

Expected for more than 20 months are the extraordinary lights of the whole set on the "great" days of the Real Sitio, on May 30 (San Fernando); July 25 (Santiago) and August 25 (San Luis), when the shows from 7 sources will be activated: La Selva, Carrera de Horses, Canastillo, Eight streets, Ranas, Baños de Diana and La Fama. The offer of National Heritage regarding the spectacle of the fountains also includes the night lighting of the Baths of Diana, every Saturday in July and the first three of August, between 22.30:23.30 p.m. and XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.

The reopening of the fountain shows was presented on May 25 by the president of the National Heritage, Llanos Castellanos, accompanied by the mayor of the Real Sitio, Samuel Alonso. In this framework, the president has vowed that the return to normality will allow "reactivating tourist activity in the Royal Site and recovering national and international visits."

The president of National Heritage, Llanos Castellanos and the mayor of Del Real Sitio, Samuel Alonso.

In the same sense, Alonso has stressed that “what is presented today goes beyond the fact that the sources are put into operation. It is that unique symbiosis between the Palace, the Gardens and the town of Del Real Sitio de San Ildefonso ”and he considered the occasion a step to“ continue to advance positively to try to reach that new normality ”.

An XNUMXth century hydraulic system
The fountains of La Granja are the protagonists in the Jardines del Real Sitio. The general pond of the Sea and six other smaller reserves supply them with water through a network of several kilometers of pipes, whose original operation, from the 50th century, is considered the most important hydraulic system of pressure by fall among those preserved in the historical gardens of Europe, achieving jets of water almost 250 meters high, as in the La Fama fountain, which moves XNUMX liters per second.

Source: Aqueduct2

Segovia exhibits its tourist offer in Fitur

Segovia exhibits in Fitur its tourist offer to overcome the crisis in the sector

Following the suspension due to the pandemic, the Fitur International Tourism Fair returns to Fairground de Madrid to try to re-float a sector particularly hit by the health crisis, and which aims to be able to recover this year part of what was lost during 2020 if the advance in vaccination continues its course and the health measures take effect.

Until May 23, professionals from the tourism sector and the general public will attend Fitur in an edition marked by sanitary restrictions in terms of capacity and participation, but with the intact objective of revaluing the tourist potential that it has Spain.

Segovia will not miss the opportunity to participate in this fair, and both the Town hall and Deputation through their respective areas of Tourism these days will lead to Madrid the best of the tourist offer to expose it to professionals, with whom they will hold working meetings within the framework of the stand of the Castilla and leon meeting; and in the case of Town hall, in the one of the Network of Jewish Quarters of Spain to which it belongs.

The council of Culture will take as outstanding proposals the third edition of the Accessible Festival 'Globos de Segovia', which will run from July 16 to 18 this year, as well as the new blog 'Art and tourism spaces in Segovia'. In addition, the councilor Gina Aguiar placeholder image develop the institutional agenda of the area with the participation of the Joint Plan of Actions of the Group of World Heritage Cities with Turespaña and Paradores de Turismo. For their part, the technicians of the Municipal Tourism Company and especially Segovia Convention Bureau They will establish contacts with companies to get new marketing channels, attract events, get new suppliers and promotion and communication agreements.

For her part, the deputy of Tourism Magdalena Rodríguez and the techniques of Prodestur They began yesterday to develop promotional work for the main tourist attractions in the province. Thus, in addition to contributing to the promotion of The Santiago Way in its part that goes through Castilla y Leon, will announce the activities of the Jubilee Year Henarense and the campaign 'Reinvent yourself, come to Segovia'.

Similarly, the Deputation will take advantage of the confluence of tourist agents to attract monumental, gastronomic, rural tourism, active nature tourism and family tourism to the province at the counter within the space enabled by the Castilla and leon meeting.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

Reactivate and reinterpret museums

On the occasion of the celebration of International Museum Day, tickets to the different art spaces in the city will be free until May 23.

Every May 18, International Museum Day is celebrated, a worldwide event coordinated by the International Council of Museums (ICOM)

The museums offer free admission, guided tours and activities, especially focused on groups that do not regularly go to these places.

For its part, the Esteban Vicente Contemporary Art Museum has extended its opening hours to visit the exhibition 'Hereditas', by Gonzalo Borondo. Thus, the center will open its doors from 11:00 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. and from 16:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m. until May 21.

According to the director of this cultural space, Ana Doldán, yesterday morning "there was quite a flow of visitors." This seems to be the trend of the center in recent days. "If we add the International Museum Day, that Gonzalo Borondo's exhibition proposal generates a lot of interest and that the perimeter closure has already been lifted, this week a good number of visitors are expected," says Doldán.

In turn, the Museum of Segovia organizes a continuous projection of images on the evolution of the building itself and the restoration processes. He has also scheduled a series of lectures for today at 17:00 p.m. entitled 'The future of the museum: recovering and reimagining'.

Similarly, the Glass Technology Museum of the Royal Crystal Factory will hold digital meetings today and tomorrow with schools and art institutes with guests such as Mayice Estudio.

Likewise, virtual meetings will be broadcast with the director of the museum and the blowing master of the Royal Glass Factory and they will answer questions from social networks about the museum's collections and the glass-blowing workshop.

The City Council of Segovia has joined this celebration, so in the microsites of the centers managed by the Tourism area (among them, the Didactic Center of the Jewish Quarter, the
Collection of Puppets of Francisco Peralta and the Royal Mint) the public will have videos and 3D reality to be able to visit these spaces virtually. In addition, on the weekend of May 21 to 23 there will be open days in all of them.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

The Royal Glass Factory of La Granja opens its doors on Museum Day

International Museum Day invites museums to create, imagine, share new practices of creation, value, new business models for cultural institutions and innovative solutions for today's social, economic and environmental challenges. The Technological Museum of Glass of the Royal Glass Factory joins the celebration this day with several free activities scheduled for these days.

Today will be an open day to the museum and workshops, with demonstrations throughout the morning of the blowing and carving technique. There will also be guided tours, from 11 am to 14 pm, every hour, with prior reservation, and a virtual visit to the Glass Museum and the Royal Glass Factory workshops. The building will be illuminated at night, from 21:00.00 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX a.m.

On May 19 and 20, at 11,30 am, schools and institutes interested in learning how a glass lamp is made will be invited to participate in this forum, from the first sketch to the final result. The Mayice Estudio designers will present their designs made at the Real Fábrica de Cristales and will share their experience and the complete development of their works.

As of last weekend, virtual meetings with the museum director and the blowing master of the Royal Glass Factory are being broadcast online. They answer questions on social media about glass and museum collections. The interviews are accompanied by short videos.

The Royal Glass Factory of La Granja is a singular and unique space, in which multiple activities related to the world of glass can be developed. From visiting the Technological Museum with magnificent collections of glass pieces, passing through the real demonstration of the work in the furnaces, to receiving training on techniques applicable to glass, or to being able to buy a set of glasses or glasses made in the Royal Glass Factory.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

The Segovia Provincial Council supports and promotes the Henarense Jubilee Year at the Madrid International Tourism Fair

The Segovia Provincial Council will be present one more year at the Madrid International Tourism Fair from May 19 to 23, under the umbrella of the Junta de Castilla y León and, on this occasion, it will support and promote the Henarense Jubilee Year as one of the main tourist claims that our province will have from the month of August.

The deputy for Tourism, Magdalena Rodríguez, commented in the presentation to the media that "this change of date will allow the fair to play a critical role in the recovery of tourism, since it will favor the professional reunion of companies, countries and destinations and the much-needed boost of world tourism activity ".

The theme that the Junta de Castilla y León has chosen for this edition is the Camino de Santiago, "because it was Jacobean last year and it was not possible to hold the fair." The Diputación de Segovia will have a counter inside the stand of the Board, whose image will be a photo of the Cloister of Santa María la Real de Nieva together with two pilgrims who are making the Camino de Santiago. This was one of the photographs submitted for last year's photography contest and which is also part of the PROdestur calendar.

Jubilee Year Henarense

The Segovia Provincial Council has already begun to support this Jubilee Year which, as highlighted by the Deputy for Tourism, Magdalena Rodríguez at the press conference to present to the media, "will be very important for the tourist reactivation of the area, but also our province in general ". This support from the provincial institution is manifested from different areas since "our forest crews have already worked for several days in the area to clean it up, the Territorial Action teams have carried out actions on the roads of the area and the chief foreman of the Park of Maquinaria de Cuéllar has already made several visits to the area to carry out signaling interventions to improve access security. In addition, we will support the execution of parking areas so that they can be prepared for the arrival of visitors when the acts ". In addition, these events that will also be supported by the Culture Area, when it comes to cultural events and traditional folklore, which will collaborate with the printing costs for the dissemination and promotion of the activities. "Finally," from our Tourism, Prodestur, will also support this promotion and dissemination work with all digital and communication tools, as well as with the hiring of personnel to support all the actions carried out by the organization ".

Therefore, Rodríguez highlighted "four areas of the provincial institution are already at the service of the needs that may arise around an event that, as I have already said, can be a good opportunity to revitalize the Tierra de Pinares area, but also the rest of our province ". The presentation of the Henarense Jubilee Year will take place on Thursday 20 at 13,00:XNUMX p.m. on the stand of the Junta de Castilla y León.

For his part, the spokesman for the Jubilee Commission, Daniel Martín, stressed that "the fourth centenary of the Henar festival will be a major tourist boost for the area for 13 months and, why not, in the future." The Jubilee Year, which will begin on August 8, 2021, will run until September 18, 2022. The Holy See has granted this Jubilee Year on the 400th anniversary since Gregory XV signed a brief pontifical on August 9, 1621 to grant the Feast of the Virgen del Henar.

In addition, Martín has pointed out that "the Jubilee Year aims to be a focus of pilgrimage to El Henar, which before the pandemic reached 200.000 visitors annually, mainly from all the provinces of Castilla y León and northern Spain." At the moment, work is being done on the cataloging of the paths of the Henar, an opportunity to structure our province and a good part of the Castilian-Leon region.

The Virgen del Henar is the patron saint of the Community of Villa y Tierra de Cuéllar, which has 36 towns in the north of the province of Segovia and the south of Valladolid, and has held the Gold medal of the province of Segovia since 1972. In addition, in this Jubilee Year the half century of the canonical coronation of the image of the Virgin will also be celebrated, on June 25, 2022, with the Cuellarano Modesto Fraile Poujade being president of the Provincial Council at that time. She has also been the patron of the resin producers of Spain since 1958, this region being a key axis of the resin industry.

At the presentation in Madrid, next Thursday, a promotional video will be shown on the meaning of Henar's name, which is carried by more than 3.000 women from all over the country, and which originates from precisely this place.

The rector of the Shrine, Carlos García, wanted to thank "the provincial institution for its support in recent months", trusting in the possibilities that this event may have to promote the spirituality of our land and, as a consequence of the influx of visitors, relaunch different economic sectors.

In the same vein, the Vicar General of the Segovian diocese, Ángel Galindo, who, on behalf of the Bishop of Segovia, César Franco, wanted to highlight the priority value of this event in the pastoral care of the Diocese, as well as the importance of relations between civil and religious institutions for the promotion of our people.

The desire of this Jubilee Year is that the residue remains beyond 2022 in an environment, that of the Sanctuary, which will host a varied and rich religious, cultural, gastronomic and social programming from next August 8.

More tourist offer in the province

In addition to this firm commitment of the Provincial Council to promote this Henarense Jubilee Year at the stand that Prodestur will install at FITUR, the provincial institution will also be present with the projection of the videos of the promotional campaign 'Reinvent yourself, come to Segovia'. Five videos, which the Provincial Council wants to turn into unique destinations, made and focused on capturing monumental tourism, gastronomic tourism, rural tourism, active and nature tourism and family tourism. As Magdalena Rodríguez has pointed out, "in them you can appreciate, from the majesty of castles such as those of Coca or Turégano to the intimacy of various rural accommodations and natural landscapes, passing through the artisan work of some wineries or factories of producers of Food of Segovia ".

By supporting these audiovisual resources, the visitor who so wishes will be able to find brochures in the stand itself, "although all the tourist information in the province will be offered through QR codes to help guarantee security". On the other hand, the stand will display different posters with images that show the tourist value of the province and "the BIDI code of all our publications, so that the interested party can download the brochure of any tourist town in our province, our products or our routes, in addition to being personally attended by Prodestur staff who will be present at the fair counter ".

Magdalena Rodríguez has also announced that "the fair will be a perfect showcase to promote the Reinventa2 discount vouchers, since cards will be distributed explaining that a tourist can save if he visits the province of Segovia, at least three days, up to 300 euros a Through these vouchers that the Segovia Provincial Council pays in full to those establishments and restaurants adhering to the project. A saving that can reach up to 150 euros in accommodation, 30 euros in each of the meals that you reserve and 30 euros in each activity To make".

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The royal palaces of La Granja and Riofrío will be free next Tuesday

National Heritage will open all its monuments to the public for free on Tuesday, May 18, International Museum Day. Thus, admission will be free at the royal palaces of La Granja and Riofrío, which will open their doors from 10 am to 19 pm.

The president of National Heritage, Llanos Castellanos, has assured that “we join this call of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a celebration that in 2020 was virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and that in 2021 we return with enthusiasm to make clear, once again, our commitment to access a safe and quality culture for all audiences ”.

National Heritage has planned this day in accordance with the state health regulations and those of the different autonomous governments, with measures such as the obligation of a mask, use of hydroalcoholic gel and the corresponding capacity controls, as the institution has been doing since the reopening progressive of its monuments.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

Fitur- Starting point and support for the tourism sector

The natural variety of the Community, the culture, the roads to Santiago in the Jacobean year, the VIII Centenary of the Cathedral or the communal revolution will focus the offer on an atypical year due to the pandemic

Castilla y León will be presented at the International Tourism Fair (Fitur), in Ifema, as a starting point after the damage caused by the pandemic and a boost to regional tourism, mainly due to the summer campaign. More, if possible, in a really atypical year due to COVID, in which the 41st edition has been moved to this month of May, specifically from 19 to 23, compared to the usual months of January in which the contest was held.

For this reason, that of the pandemic, the varied tourist offer of the Community will focus on everything related to the outdoors, such as the natural museum that simply represents Castilla y León, in addition to the roads to Santiago in Jacobean year as It is 2021. But events such as the VIII Centenary of the Burgos Cathedral or the commune revolution, which marks 500 years, will also center the attraction of the public.

The Board, for example, has decided this year to concentrate its offer on a stand of only 700 square meters, half the space it occupied in previous calls, where it will unify the commercial and institutional presence to give greater importance to the commercial and business part . The objective, according to the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Javier Ortega, is to exhibit "a continuous and homogeneous space that shows the wealth of each province", as well as the Regional Council of El Bierzo, and that Castilla y León is "a destination unique and varied inland tourism ”.

"We hope that after a particularly hard time for the sector, this edition of Fitur will serve to promote Castilla y León as a safe and quality tourist destination, and relaunch it at the national and international level," said Ortega.

By provinces, the Ávila City Council intends that its presence in Fitur marks the beginning of the city's tourist recovery after a year of pandemic, and for this it intends to show the capital of Avila as “a safe destination” and a “great museum to the fresh air". The main novelties that it will show will be a new tourist card, more activities on the Wall and a strengthening of the presence in social networks, initiatives with which it wants to position itself in terms of tourism at a key moment due to what it means to start again after the break in the sector caused by the coronavirus.

The new tourist strategy of the capital, which has the slogan 'Being in Ávila is to be at home', highlights the advantages of the city as a safe and quiet destination, ideal for “a 'slow' tourism, which encourages you to enjoy with tranquility from the city, with many options.

VIII Centenary of the Cathedral

Burgos will highlight at the Fair its differentiated offer of natural spaces and the VIII Centenary of the Cathedral. The Provincial Council, through the Society for the Development of the province of Burgos (Sodebur), and the City Council of the capital, through Promueve Burgos, participate in the most relevant tourism fair for the tourism sector.

This year is planned as the first experience of safe international mobility, seeking to relaunch tourism in the coming months. For this reason, Burgos will bet with special emphasis on the promotion of open and natural spaces that the province offers adapted for safe outdoor enjoyment, as well as the opportunity provided by the confirmation of the celebration of the activities of the VIII Centenary of the Seo Burgos.

Family and nature tourism, tailor-made

León is committed to family tourism, nature and adventure sports and proposes a custom-designed visit to the province. The Tourism Consortium has selected 23 enclaves that collect the variety and uniqueness of each of its territories and each route a proposal linked to the space.

Under the name 'León Familiarmente' and with the complicity of Tito and his family, a tour is organized through the most emblematic places of the capital and the province that reconciles nature, museums, traditions and gastronomy. The campaign is aimed at adults traveling with children under 12 years of age.

The itinerary drives the tourist to all the cardinal points of the province attracted by the fauna, the transformation of energy and the products of the countryside, the lamps of the mining past, the world of the railroad, the aroma of chocolate or the sound of tradition. , art and culture and that, even, takes you deep into the Leonese Mountain.

Palencia, attractive

The Palencia Provincial Council and the City Council of the capital join forces and attend the event together, under the Palencia Turismo brand, with which they will promote the tourist attractions of the hand of the only navigable section of the French Way to Santiago and the tourism strategy of the capital, as well as the Cristo del Otero and the seventh centenary of the Cathedral.

This joint bet responds to a change in trend, since the exit from the pandemic will allow citizens to value other things as they begin to see the light at the end of the health crisis. It is an essential fair for the recovery of the tourism sector, which is the protagonist of the province's economic activity.

Route of 'iron' in Salamanca

The Salamanca Provincial Council will promote the Camino de Hierro project from the stand of the Board, after its recent opening on April 23. A new hiking route recovered by La Salina thanks to an investment of 1,2 million euros. The 17-kilometer-long route runs through an attractive route along the old railway between La Fregeneda and Barca D'Alva, declared a Site of Cultural Interest, through 10 bridges and 20 tunnels, which allows you to contemplate the striking views of the canyons of the river.

For its part, the Salamanca City Council will promote the '2x1' campaign in hotel nights launched before Easter, with the aim of encouraging inland tourism. Thanks to a grant of 410.932 euros from the municipal coffers, the affiliated establishments can give away the second night to the guests who contract the promotion. Finally, the Consistory will present the activities that concern the week of the Golden Age.

Jubilee Year Henarense

The Segovia Provincial Council will have the Henarense Jubilee Year as its main course, which will begin in August with the opening of the Holy Door of the Sanctuary of the Virgen del Henar in Cuéllar. The president of the provincial institution, Miguel Ángel de Vicente, assured that "it will be very important for the economic reactivation of our economy."

In addition to the involvement of the Territorial Action teams and the Culture Area, from the Tourism Organization, Prodestur, they will support the work of promotion and dissemination with "all the digital and communication tools," summarized de Vicente.

In addition, at the Prodestur stand, professionals and visitors will see the projection of the videos of the promotional campaign 'Reivéntate. Come to Segovia. ' There will be traditional brochures but all the tourist information of the province of Segovia will be offered through QR codes.

The Tourism Area of the Segovia City Council is also committed to downloading through dynamic QR the most outstanding proposals that the capital presents this edition, such as the new blog 'Art and Tourism Spaces of Segovia' and information on the celebration of the III Accessible Festival "Globos de Segovia" to be held from July 16 to 18, 2021.

The capital will be with tourist news at the stand of the Junta de Castilla y León and at the stand of the Network of Jewish Quarters of Spain, as well as in the presentations of the Group of World Heritage Cities of Spain, Turespaña and Paradores.

Soria, safe destination

The Provincial Council plans to promote 'Soria as a safe destination' through its natural spaces and its large wooded area. The institution will participate in the Fair through the stand of the Board, whose star product, he recalled, is the Camino de Santiago. "As there are not many references to Jacobean routes in Soria, we joined the initiative with the promotion of the well-known Camino de la Lana, which was the one historically used by the Sorians and Aragonese to get to Santiago," he said.

The institution meant that Soria intends to show its rich natural heritage and the amount of activities that can be carried out such as mountain biking routes, hiking, among others. "Soria is a safe destination to travel and we want to show the rich gastronomy of the province and its heritage legacy," added the Provincial Council.

Enogastronomy of Valladolid

The Valladolid offer in Fitur will have as protagonists the enogastronomy, as well as a calendar of events that will be known in a presentation that will take place on Thursday at the stand of the Board in charge of the City Council.

The theme of the Diputación, for its part, will revolve around 'Los Caminos a Santiago, Jacobeo 2021, since Castilla y León is crossed by a total of 15 routes, three of them through Valladolid: Camino de Madrid, del Levante and from the Southeast. It will also be committed to disseminating and promoting knowledge of the V Centenary of the commune revolution in Fitur, where an edition of a tourist guide of routes linked to this event will be promoted, which includes three different itineraries to discover the places where community members and royalists decided their strategic movements, in addition to historical contributions on the causes of the movement, the main landmarks and community scenarios and its protagonists.

In addition, on Wednesday May 19, at 11 am, within the framework of Fitur, an agreement will be signed between the Provincial Council and Renfe to start up the Wine Train and the Castilla Canal Train again.

Zamora by bike

The Zamora City Council and the Provincial Council intensify their presence in Fitur with sustainable tourism as the main course, with the presentation of bicycle tourism routes with content and interest, the offer of a province with wide possibilities for holding congresses and a website and an application focused on the Douro River, in addition to the Little Opera Festival.

The Tourist Board presents 'Cycling in Zamora', it proposes up to 46 routes through all the Zamora regions, with itineraries that allow you to discover the territory in an attractive and simple way on a platform such as Wikiloc. 40 routes correspond to the project and to them are added six from the City Council and another nine from the alfoz.

Source: The Day of Segovia

CyL unifies its offer in Fitur and will be promoted as insurance

The Community will take advantage of the contest, which will be held in Madrid from May 19 to 23, to give prominence to the Jacobean Year or The Ages of Man

The Junta de Castilla y León will reinforce the commercial role of its exhibitor at the International Tourism Fair (Fitur), which will be held in Madrid from May 19 to 23 after postponing its January edition due to the pandemic, with the Xacobeo Holy Year 21 -22, the 'Lux' edition of The Ages of Man and the cycle tourism routes as great bets of the Community to attract tourists after the pandemic. The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Javier Ortega, presented yesterday the participation of the Board in the 41st edition of the contest, and explained that the Community has decided to concentrate its offer on a stand of only 700 square meters, half of the space it occupied in previous calls, where it will unify the commercial and institutional presence (previously divided into pavilions 7 and 8), to "give greater importance to the commercial and business part". The objective, as he pointed out, is to exhibit "a continuous and homogeneous space that shows the wealth of each province" as well as the El Bierzo County Council, and that Castilla y León is "a unique and varied destination for inland tourism."

"We hope that after a particularly hard time for the tourism sector, this new edition of Fitur will serve to promote Castilla y León as a safe and quality tourist destination, and relaunch it at the national and international level," said Ortega in statements collected by Ical. As he explained, from the regional government they trust that the fair is "a starting point and a boost" to the sector, which provides "a definitive boost to tourism" in a summer campaign where they have placed all their hopes. "The epidemiological situation has improved, vaccination is an extraordinary tool that has allowed us to have a high percentage of the immunized population, and we want this to be the summer to take off," he said.

May 21

Ortega announced that the Community Day in Fitur will be on Friday, May 21, and assured that the promotion of the Jacobean Year 21-22 will be one of the central axes, since the Camino de Santiago is one of the most universal tourist products and recognized. Thus, the fifteen Roads to Santiago that cross the Community will be disseminated among professionals and the public, "with an infinity of natural, heritage, experiential and tourist resources in its wake, in addition to gastronomic wealth and cultural activities and active tourism."

The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Javier Ortega, in the presentation.
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Javier Ortega, in the presentation. - Photo: Ical
The new edition of the exhibition project Las Adades del Hombre will also be publicized at the Fair, which, under the title 'Lux', will be held in five venues in Burgos, León and Palencia. Thus, a presentation will be made to travel agencies and specialized press, also open to the general public of Madrid, the main national source market for tourists to the Community.

"We want to receive visitors from Castilla y León but also from the rest of Spain and international visitors," said Ortega, who emphasized the "commitment" to the internationalization of the Community's tourism sector. With this challenge, it will present its participation in different international projects, such as the 'Eurovelo 1 Atlantic Coast Route', to lead to the development and launch of a European cycling route.

Gastronomy, much more than a complement

Gastronomy will be, on the other hand, "much more than a complement to tourist activity." In the exhibitor, and with the help of Tierra de Sabor and the Community Wine Routes, they will create «a great still life of products from the gastronomy of Castilla y León to show the enormous variety and quality of our products, which make us in the great pantry of Spain, a territory where food is a true art. Another axis of the offer is to promote the rural tourism offer in the Community, with more than 4.000 accommodations and about 37.000 beds in the nine provinces, with special emphasis on the 'Posadas Reales' quality brand. And they will also be protagonists in the contest "culture as an engine of territorial development."

Source: The Day of Segovia

Companies in the tourism sector of the province can now apply for the aid and join the discount voucher campaign contemplated in the 'Reinventa2' plan of the Provincial Council

With the forthcoming conclusion of the State of Alarm and the foreseeable end of the perimeter closure, the province is preparing to once again be a tourist destination and gradually recovering the activity of the sector, one of the main engines of the Segovian economy and one of the most abused by the pandemic. For this reason, and after having reinvented for the second year in a row the plans and projects of the Provincial Council's tourist agency, Prodestur, the provincial institution has already begun to implement the mechanisms that contribute to generating the safest and most beneficial environment for this reception. of tourists, both from Castilla y León and from outside the Community.

In this way, the deadline for tourism companies in the province to request both aid for financing expenses related to their activity, as well as discount vouchers, aimed at building customer loyalty and attracting travelers who can help increase overnight stays, consumption in restaurants or interest in adventure activities and free time.

In the first place, with regard to the aid, which with a consigned budget of 100.000 euros may be requested by the companies until next May 31, these are focused on subsidizing up to a maximum of sixty percent of the expenses related to repayment installments and interest on mortgage loans, insurance linked to tourism, rental of premises where it takes place, electricity, heating or telecommunications supplies or even advertising expenses.

The Diputación is aware of the multiple damages caused by the cessation and reduction of the activity due to the health emergency and, therefore, has wanted to make this aid available to natural or legal persons of the towns of the province that are owners of hotels, hostels, motels, pensions, tourist apartments, rural tourism accommodation, campsites or houses for tourist use, among others, and also those who own restaurants, bars and cafes that do not have a terrace.

They are also all recipients of the discount voucher campaign that already during 2020 was a boost for attracting tourists and that this year has improved and diversified its conditions so that the number of beneficiaries multiplies and there are many travelers who find in the Segovia province a perfect destination for your vacations.

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Discounts of between 30 euros and 150 euros

In this sense, all the companies likely to be beneficiaries of these bonds have already received a communication from Prodestur informing them of the conditions and requirements for joining this campaign, which will last until December 12 of this 2021, and those who wish to be part of the initiative will be included in a list that will be published on the Prodestur website, so that potential customers can find out about the establishments that accept these vouchers, the full bases of which can be consulted on the the same way on the organism's website.

Since both the timing of the reservations and the type of establishment influence customer decisions, the provincial institution has chosen to establish a series of bonds of different values according to different criteria. Thus, the vouchers for full rental houses, tourist apartments and houses for tourist use range between 30 euros and 150 euros, depending on the number of nights, places and the time of year in which the reservation is made; the vouchers for hotels, rural hotels, inns, royal inns and shared rental houses will vary between 30 and 50 euros; discounts in restaurants will be 30 euros from a minimum amount of 60 euros; and, finally, the vouchers for activity companies will be 40% of the total amount with a maximum discount of 30 euros per person.

As the Prodestur deputy, Magdalena Rodríguez, already indicated in a press conference in which she announced the main measures included in the 'Reinventa2' plan of the 'Segovia, Reactive Province2' program, both the aid and the bonuses have been configured "attending to the needs and demands of a sector seriously damaged by the pandemic" and they hope to be an important incentive for the arrival of tourists to our province.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The Alcázar, considered the second most beautiful castle in Spain

Those responsible in Spain for the Lonely Planet travel guide began months ago to carry out several surveys through Instagram about the tastes of travelers, (with results without objective validity).

The last question that they have asked to know the opinion of travelers was: What is the most beautiful castle in Spain?

The survey, in which 60.000 people participated, gave the castle of Loarre in Huesca the winner. Like an eagle's nest on top of a rocky rock that dominates the plain of La Hoya de Huesca, this spectacular medieval castle from the s. XI is considered one of the most beautiful in the world. Surrounded by a high wall defended by semi-cylindrical towers, the fortress was inhabited by soldiers, nobles and canons who celebrated mass in the church of San Pedro, a Romanesque architectural jewel. Despite being almost ten centuries old, its state of conservation is excellent and this has turned it into a movie castle; Among others, this is where Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven was filmed.

The Segovian Alcázar was the second finalist in the survey. Built on an Arab fortress in the s. XII, this fortification has undergone numerous transformations, and its current appearance is due to Felipe II. Its silhouette is imposing from the confluence between the Eresma and Clamores rivers.

The glory of Segovia does not end here. The third place went to the Castell de Bellver in Mallorca, the fourth to the Castillo de Belmonte in Cuenca, the fifth to the Castle of Cardona in Barcelona and the sixth to the Royal Palace of Olite in Navarra. But the best is yet to come, the castle of Coca has achieved the seventh position.

Built in the s. XV by order of the Fonseca family, it is one of the best examples of Spanish Gothic-Mudejar architecture. The most curious thing is that it is not on a hill, but rises over a meander of the Voltoya River. It is a National Monument and has a spectacular defensive system. The Casa de Alba gave it a few years ago to the Ministry of Agriculture, which today occupies the building.

You can find all the finalists in: Visit the most spectacular castles in Spain - Lonely Planet

Source: Segoviaudaz

Castilla y León regains leadership in rural tourism

Castilla y León regained leadership, within Spain, in relation to rural tourism by registering 28.484 overnight stays during the month of March 2021, the first since the beginning of the pandemic in which there was a national increase, in interannual terms, of overnight stays. And it is that March reflected a rise of 34,3 percent in Castilla y León, far, however, from the growth of 61,7 percent reported in the country as a whole, reports Ical.

This is stated in the Survey of Occupancy of Extra-hotel Tourist Accommodation, published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which places the number of overnight stays, nationwide, at 241.491, well above the 148.818 in March 2020, marked by the start of lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The increase in overnight stays, which in month-on-month rates reached 112,7 percent in Castilla y León, is also reflected in the number of travelers, since Castilla y León received 11.842, 200 percent more than the 3.944 in February 2021 and 26,3 percent higher than the 9.378 travelers registered in March 2020; and Spain welcomed 96.547 visitors to this type of tourism, 190 percent more than in February 2021 and 74,66 percent higher than the 55.277 visitors who came to this type of accommodation in the country in March 2020.

The great protagonist of this type of tourism, however, was once again the national visitor, who represented 97,7 percent of the total number of travelers in Castilla y León, with 11.842, and accounted for 95,7 percent of the overnight stays. . The average stay was 2,41 days, higher than the 2,17 days in March 2020 but below both the days of average stay of the community in February, which amounted to 3,39, and with respect to the average March 2021, located at 2,50 days.

The price index for rural tourist accommodation in Castilla y León stood at 2021 euros in March 141,90, 2,12 percent below those registered in the same month last year and 10 percent lower than the price. average of 157,92 euros established in February 2021. The national average stood at a price of 139,94 euros, which although it is 1,22 percent higher than last year, represents a decrease of 1,38 percent compared to February.

The number of rural tourism establishments in Castilla y León increased from 2.620 registered in February 2021 to 2.714 in March, with a supply of 22.502 places and a total of 3.419 workers employed. The occupancy rate per place stood at 4,08, while on weekends it increased slightly to 7,18. At the national level, the 12.668 existing rural tourism accommodation offered 115.382 places served by 16.870 employees, with an average occupancy of 6,74 that increased to 12,24 on weekends.

From two to three provinces among the best

With regard to provincial data, Castilla y León increased the number of provinces among the 15 best in the country, from two to three, with León, Salamanca and Ávila in those top positions. León thus occupied the sixth place in March 2021, registering 6.805 total overnight stays, with an average stay of 2,15 nights booked by the 3.172 travelers received.

For its part, Salamanca was ranked ninth with 5.829 overnight stays and 2.085 travelers for an average stay of 2,81 nights, and Ávila ranked 4.491th with 1.191 overnight stays and 3,77 travelers, with an average stay of XNUMX. XNUMX nights.

The survey of occupancy in non-hotel tourist accommodation, released today by the INE, also reflects data on overnight stays in tourist apartments, campsites and hostels, where Castilla y León registered more modest numbers than in rural tourism accommodation with respect to the average national. Thus, the autonomous community closed March 2021 with a total of 12.792 overnight stays in tourist apartments and 1.380 in campsites.

Source: Segoviaudaz

Five advertisements made by the company Readmore Films are, under the slogan 'Reinvent yourself, come to Segovia', the tourist claim of the Provincial Council for the coming months

The province of Segovia will be even more fascinating in the eyes of those who travel it for the first or the umpteenth time, after this morning the presentation of the videos with which the Tourism Agency of The provincial institution, Prodestur, will launch a campaign to promote the Segovian towns and their different possibilities, which will be disseminated throughout Spain in the coming days and weeks.

"We have created five unique destinations so that, as in those adventure books that we read as children, we can decide whether to travel to the page of the monumental province, the gastronomic Segovia, the most rural land, the active province and nature or if we move to that Segovia that offers us the kindest environment in which to be surrounded by our own "said Miguel Ángel de Vicente, president of the Provincial Council, before an audience made up of some of the interpreters who have participated in the filming of these videos, made by the Readmore Films production company, and also by some tourist agents, who will soon have this material at their disposal to promote tourism to our province; first, among the Castilian-Leonese and, once the perimeter closure is finished and mobility restrictions are eased, among all those people who want to discover the fantasies that Segovia keeps.

In total there are five videos made and focused on capturing monumental tourism, gastronomic tourism, rural tourism, active and nature tourism and family tourism, and in them you can appreciate, from the majesty of castles such as those of Coca or Turégano to the intimacy of various rural accommodations and natural landscapes, through the artisan work of some wineries or factories of food producers in Segovia. All of them are, as the president was in charge of describing, the fruit of a work of "introspective tourism", in which Prodestur has worked "on a trip to the center of our land, a journey into our heritage, our traditions and our History, with the sole destiny of creating a unique destiny, both for those of us who know it, and for those who, now that it seems that soon we will open borders again, do not know it. "

For the director of Readmore Films, Hervé Tirmarche, these are "very simple, very human spots that convey a lot of emotion, a lot of heart" and which, after overcoming various setbacks during a filming that began in December, as explained by the deputy from Prodestur, Magdalena Rodríguez, will be disseminated from today on social networks, web pages, WhatsApp and different media, with a clear message for "all those people who during this year have grown the desire to travel inside ": 'Reinvent yourself, come to Segovia'.

Source: Diputación de Segovia

The Diputación de Segovia supports the hotel industry and rural tourism in the province with 430.000 euros in direct aid

The deputy of Tourism, Magdalena Rodríguez and the deputy of Employment, Provincial Promotion and Sustainability, Noemí Otero have presented this morning the measures that, within the program of socioeconomic recovery of the Diputación, 'Segovia, Reactiva2 province' has launched the institution provincial to support the hospitality and rural tourism of the province. This is 430.000 euros in direct aid for two of the sectors that are suffering the most from the pandemic and, more than half, 250.000 euros, will be allocated to the granting of direct subsidies to entrepreneurs in the sector to face the ordinary business expenses. The deputies have been accompanied in this appearance by the president of HOTUSE, Jesús Castellanos and his counterpart in the Rural Tourism Association of Segovia, Gerardo Otero, who have played an active role in agreeing on many of the measures that will be carry out.

In this way, from the Segovia Provincial Council these measures have been articulated from the 'ReLanza2' plan, which will allocate 217.500 euros and from the 'ReinvenTa2' plan that reserves 210.000 euros for this purpose. In sum, almost 428.000 euros that will come to respond, always to the extent of the possibilities and competences of the provincial institution, to the needs that both sectors have been transferring in the different meetings that the heads of each Area, and even the president of the Diputación, have been maintaining with the representatives for several months.

As deputy Magdalena Rodríguez has pointed out, "this permanent contact has allowed us to have our homework done now and to be prepared for when the time comes to be able to open our borders to receive visitors." In fact, as Rodríguez has pointed out, "businessmen can now request these aid that they so badly need and that will have a very simple procedure because our aim is to make things as easy as possible so that these aid are effective."

For Noemí Otero, "these helplines are the result of the active listening of all affected sectors. In 2020 we carried out a great effort to support all those affected by the harsh socio-economic situation we are going through, and in 2021 we have updated, renewed and created new lines according to the needs of local businesses in the province, to adapt to the reality of the moment, in an exercise of participation, resilience by the provincial institution and joint work ".

Plan 'Reinventa2'

The 'Reinventa2' plan includes the lines dedicated to rural tourism, so that 100.000 euros are contemplated in direct subsidies to entrepreneurs of accommodation, restaurants, bars and cafeterias without terrace, for the expenses derived from the activity such as rentals, mortgages, supply electric, gas, telecommunications or insurance. In addition, an amount of 50.000 euros will be allocated to the 'ReinvenTa2 your holidays' vouchers for rural accommodation, the discount of which will depend on the length of the stay and the size of the accommodation; in restaurants, with a 30 euro discount per reservation and à la carte table; and the companies of activity, with a 40% (up to 30 euros) discount on the total amount.

Training for tourism entrepreneurs will once again play a fundamental role and, in it, the Provincial Council will invest 10.000 euros, addressing financial management, thanks to the agreement with the UNED, improving customer service or how to sell tourism services, among other issues.

On the other hand, the focus will continue to be placed on promoting the province as a tourist destination with the realization of an advertising campaign in national media, "to position our offer in the Community of Madrid and Northern Spain, when sanitary restrictions require it. allow "or online platforms through influencers on social networks and participation in other projects such as Fascinating Spain. For this, the provincial institution will allocate 30.000 euros.

Plan 'ReLanza2'

Within the 'ReLanza2' Plan, the Segovia Provincial Council has given great prominence to the hotel and restaurant industry as one of the sectors hardest hit by the uncertainty that the pandemic has unleashed. Thus, a line of direct subsidies for a total amount of 150.000 euros has been articulated "that we intend to reach all those who need it and, therefore, we have increased them by 20.000 euros compared to last year, which is 13% ", as Noemí Otero has highlighted. On the other hand, and as a novelty compared to 2020, the financing of the costs of maintenance and use of POS, which includes a budget of 10.000 euros, has been extended to the hotel and restaurant sector "when last year they were limited to rural trade ".

This plan also includes local consumption vouchers that will be directed to those hotel and restaurant establishments that consume Segovia Food. A line that is endowed with 45.000 euros and that "has been very well received by all those interested since, while we help our hoteliers, we promote the brand of our province that has been growing exponentially in recent months".

In addition, campaigns to promote local consumption will also be carried out, with a budget of 12.500 euros, "and which will complement the promotion carried out by Prodestur because our line is to unite synergies for the benefit of these sectors affected by the crisis in a difficult moment that can become an opportunity for them. "

Finally, Prodestur and Alimentos de Segovia join forces with the 'Reinventa2' packs to which 20.000 euros will be contributed and which "will add value to the stay of customers, so that we will give away products from the Diputación a visitors staying in rural establishments in our province, "concluded Magdalena Rodríguez.

Reinvent Plan2		ReLanza2 Plan
Direct subsidies for rural tourism	100.000 euros	Direct subsidies for hotels and restaurants	150.000 euros
'Reinvent your vacation' vouchers	50.000 euros	Local consumption bonds	45.000 euros
Tourism promotion campaigns	30.000 euros	Local consumption promotion campaigns	12.500 euros
Training for entrepreneurs	10.000 euros	POS financing	10.000 euros
Packs 'ReinvenTa2 your vacations'	10.000 euros	Packs 'ReinvenTa2 your vacations'	10.000 euros
TOTAL	210.000 euros	TOTAL	217.500 euros
TOTAL 427.500 EUROS

For his part, the president of HOTUSE, Jesús Castellanos thanked the Provincial Council for the invitation, but "above all that we have been taken into account when designing these grants, that we have had previous meetings that have given place to these lines, because it is not the common thing in other administrations ". In addition, he assured that "it is the worst moment for our sector and that is why the aid has to be extraordinary and agile, and the Provincial Council has achieved both with these plans, because we do nothing if those amounts are very large, but at the they do not arrive and, in that sense, the Provincial Council has listened to us and the compensations will be very quickly in the pockets of the businessmen ".

The president of ATURACSE, Gerardo Otero, also wanted to thank the provincial institution "for taking us into account when designing these measures and consulting them before starting them." For Otero, "the perimeter closure is what has affected us the most because not only have they closed us, but they have left us without customers, therefore our main concern is to be able to go back to work and these aids are compensation for the months that we have been closed, assuming a series of fixed expenses that we need to cover to be able to receive clients again ". Finally, he added that "the commitment of this plan to active tourism, a fundamental activity in the towns that we need to recover and promote, seems very important to us."

Source: Diputación de Segovia

Pedraza, the most popular town in Segovia

Traveler.es magazine has recently published a map of Spain in which the most popular town in each province of the country is highlighted.

According to the article, the 50 towns have been selected from a list of Spanish municipalities with less than 20.000 inhabitants.

Once this first screening was carried out, the data on the volume of monthly searches on Google was taken into account for the term “what to see in (municipality)”. That phrase was chosen because it is one of the most sought after when planning a getaway, as well as to prevent towns whose names have other meanings from benefiting.

In the event of a tie, the magazine has clarified that the town whose name alone had the highest search volume was chosen.

Meet the chosen ones!

Starting with the islands, in Santa Cruz Garachico has been selected as the most popular town, while in Las Palmas it has been Teror.

In the Balearic Islands the chosen one has been Valldemosa.

Some of the chosen towns in the north of the country are Betanzos in La Coruña, Cambados in Pontevedra, Allariz in Ourense, Ribadeo in Lugo, Llanes in Asturias or Comillas in Cantabria. Bermeo in Vizcaya, Hondarribia in Guipúzcoa, or Laguardia in Álava.

In Navarra the chosen one has been Olite, and in La Rioja Haro. If we go to the Aragonese provinces, Jaca takes the cake in Huesca, Tarazona in Zaragoza and Albarracín in Teruel.

In the Catalan community, Solsona has been chosen from Lleida, Cadaqués from Girona, Cardona from Barcelona, and Miravet from Tarragona.

Continuing along the Mediterranean, Peñíscola is the most popular town in Castellón, Bocairente that of Valencia, and Guadalest that of Alicante. In Muncia the chosen one is Moratalla.

And we arrived in Andalusia, Mojácar has been selected in Almería, Guadix in Granada, Frigiliana in Málaga, Setenil de las Bodegas in Cádiz, Aracena in Huelva, Osuna in Seville, Rute in Córdoba, and Cazorla in Jaén.

In Extremadura, the selected towns are Trujillo and Zafra, for Cáceres and Badajoz.

In Castilla - La Mancha, the selection in Toledo has been Consuerga, in Ciudad Real Almagro, in Albacete Alcalá del Júcar, in Cuenca Belmonte, and in Guadalajara Sigüenza.

In the Spanish capital, the most popular town is Chinchón.

Castilla y Leon

The most popular town in Ávila is Arenas de San Pedro; In Salamanca Ciudad Rodrigo; In Zamora Puebla de Sanabria; In León Astorga; In Palencia Cervera de Pisuerga; In Burgos Lerma; In Soria Medinaceli; In Valladolid, Tordesillas; And last but not least, in Segovia, Pedraza.

Source: Segoviaudaz

Castles of First Division

The Alcázar of Segovia and the Castle of Coca are included in the Civitatis company list of the ten most beautiful fortresses in Spain, an incentive for your tourist visits

The extensive and intense history that the Iberian Peninsula has lived can be narrated through its hundreds and hundreds of castles scattered throughout the territory. The provinces of Jaén, Guadalajara and Zaragoza are the most prolific in terms of the number of fortresses, but they are not the only ones: there is not a single Spanish province without its castle. Faced with this wide range of possibilities, Civitatis, the leading company in the sale of guided tours, excursions and free tours in Spanish all over the world, has chosen the most beautiful castles in Spain. And Segovia, with the Alcázar and the Coca Castle, is well represented.

Civitatis describes the Alcázar as a palace-fortress, declared a World Heritage Site, dating back to no less than the XNUMXth century. “A good part of the kings of Castile have spent the night in their stays, introducing different reforms over the centuries. The television series dedicated to Isabel I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon popularized this Segovian castle, where the views from the Tower of Juan II and places as prominent as the rooms of the Kings, the Throne, the Chimney shine with their own light. or of the Pineapples ”.

It also gives Coca a place. “If a representative image of Gothic-Mudejar architecture had to be shown to someone who did not know what this style consists of, they would undoubtedly have to be shown a photograph of Coca Castle. This fortress from the XNUMXth century has a very special charm that will take you to another era ”.

The list is completed by the Castle of Javier, a monumental emblem of Navarra. Its patron, San Francisco Javier, was born and lived in the castle: a spectacular 1994th century fortress that since XNUMX has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest. At the beginning of March, many people flock to this castle on the so-called Javieradas pilgrimages.

Also a templar yoja such as the Ponferrada Castle, although its origins go back much further back, since it is believed that an old Celtic fort was previously located in this place. Strolling through the current Templar fortress is a trip back in time, since its moat and battlements have preserved that disturbing image of an impregnable fortress that it instilled so much respect among the enemies.

Olite Castle, the palace of the Navarrese kings. From the fourteenth century, in the time of Carlos III 'El Noble', the monarchs established one of the seats of the Court there.

In Córdoba, the castle of Almodóvar del Río stands out, whose origins date back to Andalusian times. Fans of the Game of Thrones series will recognize the silhouette of the castle, since the scenes from Altojardín were filmed there.

Burgalimar Castle is an imposing Umayyad fortress in Jaén, the Spanish province with the largest number of castles, which has a spectacular walled complex, with thick-walled battlements and turrets.

The Aljafería de Zaragoza is a fortified palace whose construction began in the XNUMXth century. Its rooms are so beautiful that it has even been classified as 'the Aragonese Alhambra'.

The Monzón Fortress is added, a spectacular fortress from the Andalusian period. The castle, in the province of Huesca, also dates back to Andalusian times, although the fortress's most splendid period occurred when this bastion passed into the hands of the Order of the Temple.

Finally, Manzanares El Real, medieval emblem of Madrid, in whose interior the bases of the Statute of Autonomy were established.

Source: The Adelantado de Segovia

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