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News Article
A city of Ourense incorporates or its large green lung with entry into the Montealegre Botanical Environmental Complex service. The acting mayor, Francisco Rodríguez, inaugurated this new space, which makes available two neighbors and visitors to the city of 122,000 square meters of surface conditioned for or coñecemento e desfrute da natureza. Or investment of more than three million euros, between acquisition of land (900,000 euros) and execution of works (financed by the State Fund for or Emprego ea Sostibilidade), allowed to transform this environment of extraordinary landscape and natural value into a large complex of didactic and recreational spaces linked together by informative itineraries, equipped with a miiroiro panoramic, an interpretation and research center, an auditorium or open air and areas of magostos, among other attractions or service of residents and visitors of the city.
The environmental complex begins now a transition phase ata xaneiro of 2012, destined to control and consolidate the evolution of plantations carried out, both for reforestation and for areas for research.O novo large park in Ourense will open its ports in different schedule. From Tuesday to Sunday (from Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.). Visitors will be able to enjoy the environment with self-guided itineraries, with touch screens that will access precise information to appreciate the uniqueness of the environment. Tamén will complete educational visits for schoolchildren and groups, upon request at the Concellería."
Retrieved and translated from the official newspaper website:https://www.lavozdegalicia.es
Montealegre
"Montealegre (Happy Mountain) is the pretty name given to Ourense’s great forest park, an always-sundrenched hill that closes the city on the East, overlooking the valley and seeing now the three rivers flow and come together. Along the columns of smoke rising into the sky during the celebration of the Magostos, perhaps its most characteristic image is that of its stone pines: this is the farthest northwestern Mediterranean forest in Europe.
Despite the multiple attacks it has suffered throughout its history, Montealegre is today one of the environmental references of the city. Since 2011 a large part of its surface (over 37 acres) has been set as a forest and botanical park that preserves biodiversity: there are more than 240 floral species and about 132 fauna species. At the same time, it has opened a teaching and research space that reconciles the city with its mountain and delves into the knowledge and protection of the environment.
Montealegre Botanical Garden has a reception and research centre and an open-air auditorium, spectacularly carved into the rock, being a good example of the work carried out for the recovery and value of the quarries and water mines (some of the assets preserved in the park).
Perhaps the best link between the park and the city is its viewpoint, near the Montealagre cross, where we can see the entire valley and the urban development in one of the most beautiful views of the city. Next to the viewpoint, there is a bench strategically placed that has come to receive the title of “the most beautiful bench in Ourense”."
Retrieved from the official tourism website of the City:https://www.turismodeourense.gal/