Beja: River Park Five Kings will cost 450 thousand euros. Signed contract with the Tourism.
The River Park Five Kings will cost 450 thousand euros, an investment of Turismo de Portugal, responsible for financing 318 thousand euros and the Chamber of Beja and edia, which support 132 thousand euros.
The Municipality of Beja, the Secretary of State for Tourism and Development Company and Alqueva Infrastructures (EDIA) They signed on the morning of Monday at the Great Hall of the municipality Bejense, presented the financing agreement under the Program Valuing, through the Line to Support Macau Tourism Enhancement of Interior, which will build the River Park Five Kings.
The infrastructure will be created on the Bayou, with the same name, located at 4 miles of Beja, the geographical center of the Purpose of Enterprise Multiple Alqueva and will have an investment of 450 thousand euros.
An eligible value 354 thousand euros Turismo de Portugal in financing the project 90%, the remaining 132 thousand euros incurred between the city of Beja and edia. The Parish Union of Santiago Major and St. John the Baptist, Beja, chaired by Jorge Parente, the third point is the vertex, the one to ensure the maintenance of space, that the city council believes it can be completed in 2019.
The River Park will have a perimeter 6 kilometers, an area of 47 ha and a water mirror 1.4 million cubic meters, having as a "neighbor" the important Villa Romana Pisões, that is distant one kilometer from this site.
"We are not inventing anything, but it's not do a beach or a park. It's something different ", He explained the president of the Chamber of Beja, before the contract signing ceremony. Paul Arsenio revealed that this "is not a camera design, not even figured in our electoral program. Results from a partnership of people working not closed ", concluded. The mayor believes that this project "will boost the average increase of overnight stays per night in Beja county and you can move from 1,8 to 2,9 %", finished.
Paul Arsenio maintained that the River Park will be based on five guiding axes: "Will be decisive five Erres. playground, rest, Restoration, Rurality and Rediscovery ", synthesizing that it will be "innovative and environmentally sustainable", concluded.
Da Silva supper, President of the Alentejo Tourism, He recalled that the Alentejo has grown 20% in income, which meant the best performance in Portugal, It highlighted the importance of Valuing Program for the interior and left a request to the Prime Minister: "This project can not stop in June, must go on. We must take advantage of the appreciation of the Interior ", justified.
In turn, the Secretary of State for Tourism, He began by recalling the values ​​that the record tourism 2017, that contributed "very significantly to the downtown historical record unemployment 17% in 2014, to the current 7.9% ".
On the importance of the project to be created in Beja and its importance for enhancement of the region, Ana Mendes Godinho, He explained that "the tourist demand what is authentic and genuine. It's a luxury to be in Alentejo ", finished.
About Valuing Program, the minister said that this has a budget of 60 million euros and that it "is a success that is creating a management problem, adding that it received 600 applications, 318 which were approved, a budget of 75,4 million.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
