With a length of almost two kilometers, it will improve the safety of visitors who go to the citadel on foot
A new path that runs parallel to the castle road from the church of San Juan will serve to improve the safety of pedestrians heading to the citadel and who until now had to share the road with vehicles. The 1.9-kilometre-long path extends up to the fortress until it reaches the Los Pilones car park and continues parallel to the road going down, which passes by the Lorca viewpoint and ends a few meters before the Santa María roundabout. where it will merge with the future road of the upper neighborhoods, as explained to LA VERDAD by the Councilor for Local Development, Isabel Casalduero.
Its department executes the project with its own staff and with students from public employment programs, but depending on the difficulty of the actions, it will have the collaboration of external companies. The creation of this path includes clearing and removal of bushes on the shoulders of the road, the construction of masonry walls in various areas of the slope to enable sufficient space for passage and the installation of the handrail.
protection fences
Since the new path is located between the road and the embankment of the hillside, the safety of the users will be guaranteed with a railing of logs of wood one meter high to prevent falls. These days three groups of workers are dealing with the placement of these railings, one of them next to the church of San Juan and the other two in the vicinity of the esplanade of Los Pilones. The new road will be integrated into the mountain environment and will have a red earthen pavement up to the height of the road curb.
Casalduero said that this project is in addition to other conservation initiatives and the creation of pedestrian itineraries for leisure and recreation of Lorca in the surroundings of the castle, which is also in charge of his council. He cited among them the maintenance of the Cejo de los Enamorados path, the most frequented by hikers, the consolidation of the path between San Lázaro and Los Pilones and the new greenway that will extend between that hermitage and Calvario.