Roquetas Rumours & Facts

Olula Del Rio painter Agustin Sanchez ‘Garren’, has donated a painting called ‘Sensations of the Soul’ to Roquetas de Mar Town Hall. The work was painted after Spain won the World Cup, and is the artists way of thanking the town for its support in exhibiting his work.

Police investigating the suspicious death of a man in Roquetas earlier today have confirmed that although the body was recovered ater a fire in a flat in the Las 200 Viviendas district of Roquetas, the man had in fact been stabbed twice.

Over three hundred people attended last Saturday at the Gala for Women, organized by the PSOE in Roquetas de Mar to commemorate the International Day of Working Women and this year, as new, it has developed in the Hotel Bellavista de Playa Serena, in Roquetas de Mar. The event put the brooch to a week of activities with which the PSOE in Roquetas wanted to emphasize the role of women in society and the gaps that still exist for full gender equality.

Casa Bruselas open their doors this Friday at 10am they are a new bar serving waffles donuts etc, the owners are from Belgium. They are situated next to Burty’s bar in Roquetas.

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From now until October, some 15,000 tourists from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Iceland are expected to visit Roquetas de Mar. This is thanks to an agreement reached at the Berlin Tourism Fair between Roquetas de Mar town hall and the Serhs Tourism Group.

Before the tourists arrived, the interim mayor, Gabriel Amat, and the Tourism Councillor, Angel Mollinedo, received 26 agents for the tour operator who visited local hotels, beaches and places of interest, as well as studying the facilities the town has to offer.

The Junta de Andalucía dealt a blow to the economic development of the province after announcing that three key public works projects have been shelved due to severe cash shortages.

Work on the by-pass in Roquetas de Mar and Albox – part of the troubled Almanzora motorway –came to a grinding halt last week, while workers building a road and tunnel to improve access to the port of Garrucha were expected to down tools within a week.

The cost of all three projects had been set at almost 93 million euros. The access to the port of Garrucha includes the construction of a 250-metre tunnel for heavy goods vehicles, while the Roquetas bypass involves building a 7.4-kilometre road to help access to the Gran Plaza shopping centre.

Regarding the 43.8-million euro bypass in Albox, the regional government said the decision to stop work had been taken because the construction firm had gone bust (as reported in CA News earlier this month).

The setback is all the greater as almost 90 per cent of the 8.7-kilometre long bypass has been completed or is currently under construction. The news comes after the Junta announced that the budget for public works projects had been slashed by more than 60 per cent.

Via Costa Almeria News