Lucainena, mining essence through kilometers of green

By : ujikiu / On : 28/07/2022

In full Covid-19 pandemic, nothing better than doing outdoor sports.Therefore, the Lucainena green road has become a real provincial lung, where hundreds of Almeria [of course, also from outside on holidays] can practice hiking, running the most daring, or travel it with jersey on two wheels.

The green road of Lucainena de las Torres is an ancient mining railway layout in disused for hiking and cycling.It is an accessible and easy itinerary, with hardly pending, and away from motorized traffic, ideale for all types of audiences, even for people of reduced mobility (disabled, elderly, children ...).At first, the enabled section was 5.5 kilometers, but in the last reform its extension has tripled and right now it is 15.5, arriving from the municipality to the sale of the poor, that is, entering into theNíjar municipality.

In this way, the athlete can make a journey of about 30 kilometers round trip, perfect to prepare, for example, a challenge as demanding and beautiful as the Camino de Santiago.

 Lucainena, esencia minera a través de kilómetros de Vía Verde

Within this continue.Likewise, the memory is being made for another bridge, that of the Rafaela, which is going to be delivered to the general director of natural roads taking advantage of the presence of the mayor at this Fitur Fair in Madrid.Subsequently, the project for inclusion in the next budgets will be carried out.

In addition to the beauty of traveling these landscapes of mining origin, mainly the area of calcination ovens, the importance of the green path lies in the figures it presents.Last year, counting only Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, there are data that report that more than ten thousand tourists made this tour of the interior of Almeria.

In addition, the City Council itself offers a series of guided routes on demand, mainly for associations of the elderly, with which to visit parts of the road, as well as the corners of Lucainena de las Torres most unique.