Albox to present its €5 million district auditorium ‘Corazón del Almanzora’ at the end of the year
At the end of the year, Albox will show the project for the ‘Corazón del Almanzora’ auditorium, at the fairground: around €5 million, €3.15 million of it from European funds.
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The ‘Corazón del Almanzora’ (Heart of the Almanzora) district auditorium will be presented to the residents of Albox at the end of the year. This was revealed this Monday by the mayor, María del Mar Alfonso, in an interview on Cadena SER Levante, which broadcast its programme from the town hall itself: “At the end of the year, in November or December, it will be presented to residents”, she explained, although she left the door open to it being delayed until January 2027 at the latest, as reported by La Voz de Almería.
The building will go up at the fairground (Recinto Ferial), a location chosen, according to the mayor, because of its good access and because there is room to park. It is designed for more than 500 people and to host theatre, exhibitions, conferences and other cultural events: a facility the municipality did not have and had long been calling for. “We have seen how smaller towns have their own auditorium, and Albox needed its own”, she summed up.
After all, with 12,799 residents according to the padrón (municipal register) figures from the INE, Spain’s National Statistics Institute, as of 1 January 2025, Albox is the most populous town in the Almanzora Valley. The same fairground that will host the auditorium is also the venue for some of the town’s best-attended events: this Saturday, Rock Albox returns there for its 41st edition.
How much it costs and who pays for it
The investment is around €5 million. According to details given by Almería Provincial Council in January, €3.15 million comes from European FEDER (ERDF) funds through the Almanzora Urban Agenda (Agenda Urbana del Almanzora). The rest is being put up by the town council, from its own funds, and by the Provincial Council itself, which committed to making an extra contribution.
In that same press release, the provincial institution reported that its Governing Board had approved the contract award for drafting the project and for technical assistance with the supervision of the works, for €315,000. Its aim, according to the Provincial Council, is to turn Albox into the capital of cultural and conference tourism in the district.
What is still unknown
When it emerged in October 2025 that the Almanzora plan to bid for these European funds had been, as was explained at the time, the highest-scoring in Andalusia, the ‘Corazón del Almanzora’ was described as an exhibition and conference centre with an auditorium of around 800 seats. Now there is talk of more than 500 places, and La Voz de Almería points out that the project may have changed while it was being drafted.
The final capacity, the rooms and the timetable for the works (in October 2025 there was talk of around 24 months) will be revealed at that presentation.
