A year after its opening to the public, the National Park Visitor CenterEuropean Summits in Posada de Valdeon (Leon) It began this Friday with the visit of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, and the Minister of the Environment, Housing and Territorial Planning, Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones, accompanied by other institutional representatives.
Both agreed to emphasize the dynamic role of the place, It was an investment of 9.6 million financed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) through the Autonomous Organization of National Parks (OAPN), which then transferred it to the Régie, which assumed ownership and management.
“National parks are part of the heritage managed by rural Spain, often forgotten, and become elements of economic revitalization. Beyond the intrinsic value of preserving exceptional values, they become elements of rural revitalization and a driving force of the economy,” said the Secretary of State, reports Ical.
Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones stressed that the Center should “improve the influx of visitors and the economic and social activity of the environment.” It aims to attract tourism; not so much quantity as quality, that people spend the night, spend and enjoy everything that a very lively National Park offers and that we want to complement its attractions; a unique place, co-managed by three communities “well established standalone.”
A parking lot
The councilor indicated that a parking lot will be built next to the property that will have three uses: for visitors to the Casa del Parque, residents of Posada and for those who travel the Cares Route and the construction of a heliport for Civil Protection and health use.
The Visitor Center of the Picos de Europa National Park in Posada de Valdeón has 3,490.17 square meters of constructed area, distributed in an area dedicated to multiple uses, with a basement and a ground floor, and another for visitors, with a ground floor, first. and second. Both areas are connected by a hall on the ground floor.
The center, the second in the León National Park after the opening in 2019 of the La Fonseya, in Oseja de Sajambreprovides general information about the national park, illustrated in more detail where possible with local examples of the topics covered.
On the same day, Miteco announced its intention to continue investing in the Picos de Europa National Park, in coordination with the three autonomous communities that manage it, through a new collaboration agreement that will allocate more than four million euros to conservation projects. conservation of biodiversity, financed by European funds and will cover actions in the three provinces involved.
