He PSOE Group inside The town hall announced this Thursday that the Municipal Institute of Environmental Management of Códobone (Imgema) recovered his plan to put on a night show inside Botanical garden. This is a surprising development, as this initiative was abandoned in September after being launched three days earlier. The municipal government then affirmed that the municipality had “resolutely committed to the Alcazar for the audiovisual projection at sunset”. It must be taken into account that at that time it was Letsgo announced that he would take over the show of the fortificationwhich it has not offered since June 2023 – it stopped it because it needed to carry out the final work for its implementation, which required a license which was granted but has not been reopened.
Municipal government sources They explained this Thursday to ABC that what happened in September was a “error» in which a sound and light show at the Botanical Garden. Faced with this error, the procedure initiated was abandoned and now this initiative is resumed, which “is not a sound and light show”, they insisted.
It is, as the interlocutors consulted within the management team of the Capitulares continued, “a visit with new technologies or theatricalizations. “It’s a dinosaur montagelinked to the fossils that Immema owns, it is a musealization project”, continued these sources. “In the new document, it does not appear in any case that a sound and light show will be carried out there”, they reiterated from Capitulares.
Documents approved by the Imgema board of directors indicate that this municipal institute wishes to promote an “unprecedented spectacle at the Botanical Garden, including the thematic core is the species [animales prehistóricos] geological periods which agree with fossil plant collections which are kept in the Immema. It must incorporate “new technologies in lighting, image and sound”, even if the local government insists that it will not be a light and music show. It may also include “possible theatrical “performances” and recreations, dance if proposed by the bidders”.
The winner of the contract will be able to offer the night show six months a year. Of course, you will have to open it to the public for at least 80 days. And you must offer two passes per day
The contract will have extendable duration of one year by another. During each of the years of validity, the winner will be able to exploit the night show for six months. During this period, there will be suggest it “A minimum 80 days“. The number of passes will be at least two per day. The fee that the winner of the competition will have to pay will be a minimum of 24,000 euros per year – in the call for tenders they will be able to raise their economic proposals.
Criticism of the PSOE
He socialist advisor Joaquín Dobladez, during a press conference, assured that board of directors of this municipal entity held last Tuesday “is approved the offer of the hiring file for the provision of the service of a to show theme on animal species from geological periods which correspond to the collections of fossil plants preserved at Immema. This is the same theme that was already announced in September.
The objective of this show, as described in the specifications, “is to be a attractive offer more with which the face city to increase the overnight staysknowing that Córdoba now has four World Heritage declarations, which places the city as the only one in the world to have four recognitions [de este tipo]“, assured Dobladez.
In this sense, Dobladez assured that it is a sound and light showas the first documentation prepared for its promotion pointed out, “clearly tourism oriented as described in the specifications”, there will therefore be a successful business paying a fee to market this product in the Botanical Garden.
“We do not agree that this approach aimed at the traveler is where you have to concentrate in this municipal institute which, in our opinion, should play a greater role in environmental education and a much more active participation in the design and execution of green policies in our city, as we defend,” said the councilor.
For this reason, he argued that “this the action does not include the necessary guarantees so that this initiative also addresses the informative and educational character that it should have, in the own words of the president of Imgema, Councilor Daniel García Ibarrola.
“Minimums of scientific rigor”
“It seems obvious that any show, museification or videomapping that will be developed in a public space in the city, exposing any aspect of our historical or natural heritage, must do so with certain a minimum of scientific rigor. We therefore think that their content must be monitored for the technical equipment of the corresponding departments of the organization”, defended Dobladez. He added that the concession documents must be “much more precise from a technical point of view or specify the supervision of the scientific field” in the study phase of the offers or in final approval to “avoid unwanted errors”.
The only thing the document contains, he commented, is that “the theme of the show will revolve around animal species of geological times which correspond to the collections of fossil plants which are preserved in the Immema, and that the melodies and music used must be consistent with each other, paying particular attention to flamenco and Andalusian musical culture.
In this sense, he stressed that this municipal institute must “supervise technically and scientifically he future show of the Botanical Garden so that it has rigor and educational, informative and training criteria, in addition to the tourist attraction sought by the municipal government.