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| They have been declared a Natural Monument since last year and receive numerous visits, especially during the summer months | The Community began today the protection works of the Natural Monument constituted by the 'Gredas de Bolnuevo', which has had such a declaration since March 29, 2019.

The cost of the action is 47,500 euros and the execution period is two months . The action carried out by the Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and the Environment, seeks to prevent access by visitors to stone formations, by means of a perimeter fence of one meter high based on wooden ecotravers, from the which can be seen the monumental landscape without risk to stone formations or visitors. The director general of the Natural Environment, Fulgencio Perona, visited the place today, in front of the extensive Bolnuevo beach, and explained that "it is a unique space that every year receives the visit of thousands of tourists who, in addition to approaching the beaches, take advantage of the occasion to contemplate the spectacular landscape created by nature ". Las Gredas de Bolnuevo, in the municipal district of Mazarrón, is the second protected natural area, after Mount Arabí, in Yecla, which is declared in the category of Natural Monument in the Region of Murcia, also being a Site of Geological Interest. The contrast and the variety of forms that alveolar erosion has produced have given it the popular name of 'Enchanted City of Bolnuevo', forming an environmental complex of special landscape interest, great ecological value and geological and paleontological importance.

The Bolnuevo sedimentary rocks are just under 5 million years old and witness a unique geological event: the advance of the sea on the continent.

In addition, abundant fossil remains can be seen in the area, both in terms of diversity of fossils of marine invertebrates, among which stand out bivalves, such as vertebrates, of the sirenian type, rare marine mammals.

Source: CARM