Los Pardos unveils a renovated square mid-fiesta: Cantoria invests over €90,000 around the Arroyo Aceituno
Cantoria is investing more than €90,000 in the Los Pardos square, a street in Los Molineros and the Arroyo Aceituno road, in the middle of the fiestas.
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The square in Los Pardos, in Cantoria, goes into its fiestas with a facelift. Cantoria Town Council has completed the full renovation of the square in this hamlet, one of the works through which it has invested more than €90,000 in the Arroyo Aceituno area to renovate public spaces, improve streets and make access easier for residents, according to the municipal governing team.
The square is a space closely linked to the social life of Los Pardos and its celebrations. The work has involved levelling the ground, laying a new imprinted concrete slab, renewing the enclosure and restoring the walls. It has been completed with a new metal railing, paint and paving stones that divide and decorate the new surface. The square has cost €32,398.96, VAT included.
The works, one by one
- Los Pardos square: full renovation, for €32,398.96.
- Arroyo Aceituno road: a stone riprap wall has made it possible to gain about three metres in width on a stretch so narrow that it made getting through difficult. Around €12,000.
- Los Molineros: resurfacing of a street in the hamlet, for more than €20,000.
- Access roads to the hamlets: new asphalt on several stretches.
The town council has not specified which funds were used to pay for the works or how much the asphalting of the access roads cost.
In a municipality like Cantoria, with 3,592 inhabitants according to the INE, Spain’s National Statistics Institute (1 January 2025), and several settlements spread across its municipal area, these are small works, but they are felt in day-to-day life: getting home along a wider road or meeting up in a renovated square. The governing team presents it as a way of looking after all the hamlets “not only through major projects, but also with interventions that have a direct impact on mobility, safety, the upkeep of public spaces and the everyday quality of life of its residents”.
San Francisco, this Friday and Saturday
The improvements arrive right in the middle of the Los Pardos fiestas. After San Miguel, which was celebrated on 25 and 26 September, the hamlet holds its San Francisco fiestas this Friday 2 and Saturday 3 October, with:
- Processions.
- Music and a verbena (open-air dance).
- Children’s games.
- A carrera de cintas (ribbon race) on motorbikes.
- A big barbecue, accompanied by the Tuna de Macael (a traditional minstrel group).
With the orange warning for rain and storms that AEMET, Spain’s state weather agency, has in place for Friday, from 14:00 to 23:59, in the Almanzora Valley, check Cantoria Town Council’s channels in case there are any changes to the programme.
