The works of the Astronomical Observatory of Piedrabuena, with a total investment of more than 2.6 million euroshave already reached 50 percent of their execution and will be added in the spring to the 86 astronomical lookouts that make up this regional network.
This was advanced by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Employment, Patricia Franco, who visited, together with the mayor of Piedrabuena, José Luis Cabezas, this facility, where she highlighted the impact that the Next Generation funds will have on the municipality, which will also have an investment of more than 100,000 euros within the Blue Tourism project.
“The footprint of the Next Generation funds will be very visible next year in our region, in municipalities like Piedrabuena, where this Astronomical Observatory will be a reality in the spring, which will also become an important event. claim for rural tourism in Castile-La Mancha“, underlined the advisor.
Piedrabuena is also part of the Blue Tourism project led by the regional government and which this Tuesday, as Franco advanced it, will take a step forward with the approval by the Government Council of aid intended for municipalities which must undertake improvements in authorized natural bathing areas which are the responsibility of local entities in the region.
“This is not the case of Piedrabuena, which is not part of the 900,000 euros that we are going to approve tomorrow for eight entities, but it is in the project in which we are going to invest more than 100,000 euros in the Tabla de la Yedra as part of the improvement of our natural bathing areas”, indicated the councilor.
Franco highlighted that the province of Ciudad Real dominated the growth of travelers and overnight stays in rural tourism at the national level in October and that in just ten months of this year it has already broken the absolute record of travelers having stayed for a full year in the series. “It was a historic year for rural tourism in the province of Ciudad Real“, he added.
Exports increase by 6% in the region
On the other hand, Franco also referred, during his speech to the media, to the export figures for the month of October, known this Monday and “show the solidity of the region’s export fabric in a context marked by instability, in which we exceeded for the second time the billion euros exported in October.
The advisor stressed that the more than 1,033 million euros “are the highest figure in the history of the region in October in terms of exports.
With this data, the region’s foreign sales In the first ten months of the year they exceeded 9.359 million euroswhich means growth of more than six percent over the cumulative annual period, in a context where exports of the whole country increase by 0.8 percent during the first ten months of the year.
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