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| José Ballesta visits the works of the José Antonio Camacho Garden, which will entail the creation of a new 2,000 m2 children's play area | The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, along with the councilor for Urban Development and Administration Modernization, José Guillén, visited this week the works of the José Antonio Camacho Garden, which entail the construction of a new 2,000-square-meter play area for the families of Ronda Sur."The families of the district of Patiño and the neighborhoods of Santiago el Mayor and San Pío X will have a new pedestrian axis of more than 12,000 square meters that will link the Maestro Ibarra and José Antonio Camacho gardens," said José Ballesta, who added that "this new green area will join other healthy environments that are already emblematic in the municipality, such as Murcia Río, the Greenway or the new pedestrian axes of Alfonso X El Sabio and Gran Vía on Sundays".The new children's play area, of more than 2,000 square meters, is part of the José Antonio Camacho Garden, which has an area of ??more than 6,000 square meters.

This environment will connect with the Maestro Ibarra garden, of almost 6,000 square meters, creating a pedestrian axis of more than 12,000 square meters that will link both parks."Working to improve the collective health status of half a million Murcians, promoting clean mobility and physical activity, and promoting sustainability, to maintain environmental quality levels, are two strategic principles of the Murcia City Council," said the Murcia ruler.For the families of Patiño, San Pío X and Santiago El MayorThe new park will especially benefit the nearly 20,000 residents who live in the district of Patiño and in the neighborhoods of San Pío X and Santiago El Mayor, where more than 9,000 residents are children or young people under 35 years of age; one of the areas with the highest birth rates in the municipality.Trampolines, balance games and a multi-sports courtThe new children's area will house traditional games and skill games, such as hopscotch, as well as a multi-sports court, trampolines and balance games.

It is a new space that will promote outdoor sports practice, whose works will finish in a month.Specifically, traditional games will consist of panels and drawings on the pavement in which users can interact.

In addition, the park will display different formats and colors, which will define the different areas of use.

This environment, which will be surrounded by vegetation, will have paved accesses and renovated urban furniture.Water, protagonist element in the parks of the municipalityLikewise, the José Antonio Camacho Garden will have a new ornamental fountain; action framed within the municipal strategy Objective Pool 2023.

"Water is very present in the history of our city, it is an indispensable element in Mediterranean gardens since its origins and we are going to give it a central place in the parks of our municipality", José Ballesta recalled.The Ibarra Master Garden, a new area of ??6,000 m2 that aspires to become a benchmark for practicing outdoor sportsThis week the works of the Maestro Ibarra Garden, on Maestro Ibarra street, have been completed, a new area of ??almost 6,000 square meters that aspires to become a benchmark for outdoor sports.

In this park it has renewed the pavement, acting on an area of ??about 4,000 square meters.The Ibarra Master Garden has been opened for outdoor sports, but certain areas will remain fenced until it is time to open them, due to the health crisis.

The children's play area, lounge chairs, gymnastics area and outdoor gym equipment for practicing calisthenics are not currently usable.Basketball and running tracksAmong other elements, the Ibarra Master Garden houses a 400-meter longitudinal blue running track, marked by beacons from the Town Hall that indicate the distance of the route, which surrounds the park's surroundings.

It also has a basketball court, which also has a goal.Furthermore, in this new green area, the park's urban furniture has been renovated and nest boxes have been fitted with drinking fountains for birds of different sizes.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia