750 swimmers will participate in the Travesía a Nado-VI Volta al Penyal d' Ifac on Sunday. The competition is organized by the Real Club Náutico de Calpe together with the city of Calpe. The course measures 3,600 metres and starts at Playa del Racó beach to circle the rock and reach the finish on La Fossa beach.
The number of participants has been increased by 200, making it one of the most important swimming competitions in the Valencia region. 150 volunteers will take part in the organisation of the competition.
The city of Calpe is working on a Plan de Ciudad Amigable with the elderly. To this end, it has carried out an ambitious process of civic participation in which older people from the community have participated in 8 workshops.
At the end of the workshops, more than 250 proposals were collected in areas such as transport, housing, health, participation and social services. These actions will be examined by a technical team to explore the possibility and include them in the Action Plan.
The city decides to change the building parameters in the sectors Fossa, Morelló, Ifach and Saladar.
In today's plenary session, the start of the Strategic Environmental Assessment process for the selective modification of the PGOU (Land Use Plan) of the urban areas Morelló, Ifach, La Fossa and Saladar was decided. The process should establish new parameters that determine the type and volume of development in these sectors. The decision allows new building permits to be issued shortly. They have not been granted since last July.
Ana Sala, the mayor of the city, and several city councils met with municipal technicians from different departments involved in the implementation of the Edusi strategy "Revitaliza Calpe" to analyse the situation of each of the projects collected under the strategy.
Saturday:
- 10:00 - 14:00. Info point of the campaign "Nature without plastics" of the NGO WWF. Lugar: Plaza del Mediterráneo (La Fossa Beach)
- 16:00 I Meeting of the Colles de Xirimers. Place: Plaza Mayor
- 18:00 - 21:00. Plastic workshop on board the WWF ship. Location: Real Club Náutico de Calpe.
- 18:30 hrs. Cinema: "It. Capítulo 2" (in English). Location: Cinema Calpe
- 10:30 p.m.: Cinema: "It. Capítulo 2" Location: Cinema Calpe
Sunday
From 15 to 22 September, the Councils for Citizen Participation, Sport, Trade and the Environment will celebrate European Mobility Week, a celebration coordinated by the Ministry for Ecological Change to raise awareness of the negative consequences of the irrational use of cars and the benefits of using sustainable means of transport such as public transport or cycling.
The NGO WWF reaches Calpe with its campaign "Nature without plastic" and the "WWF Solar" boat. From September 14th to 16th the boat will go on excursions from the Club Naútico de Calpe to collect as much plastic as possible.
WWF Solar is a 14 metre long catamaran, and will be powered exclusively by photovoltaic solar panels and accumulators. The boat holds the Guinness world record as the first solar ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 2007.
The current storm has left damage on the Levante beach: the showers for feet have been torn away and the accesses to the beach have been damaged.