The Mayor of Mazarrón, Alicia Jiménez, presented the "Mazarrón Trekker" project on Wednesday at the Madrid International Tourism Fair, with which the municipality manages to project its tourism potential, focusing especially on active tourism that encompasses a wide variety of routes Hikers and cyclists.
Mazarrón has had a special section on the stand of the Autonomous Community, opening a window to the thousands of visitors to a fair that has been inaugurated by His Majesty the King, Felipe VI, who has known firsthand the tourist offer of the Region.
Accompanied by the president of the Autonomous Community, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, the mayoress, Alicia Jiménez has detailed the benefits of the Bay of Mazarrón and the ample leisure opportunities that it offers with 200 kilometers of route for hikers and cyclists and a greenway linking To Mazarrón with other municipalities.
But the novelty came on the occasion of the project "Mazarrón Trekker" that has been presented together with Daniel José Aragón, one of the technicians who has collaborated in an initiative acquired in collaboration with Google and has allowed to capture images of more than 100 kilometers between beaches, hiking trails and greenway to finally offer a virtual trip through the municipality.
In total, images of 32 kilometers of coast have been captured with two urban routes from the Mojón to Bolnuevo and another by the virgin coves from Bolnuevo to the limit with Lorca.
The interior of the municipality can also be known virtually, thus showing 54 kilometers of trails belonging to the Sierra de las Herrerías, Algarrobo, Barranco de Algezares, as well as historical sites such as the Coto Minero de Mazarrón.
Also shown 14 kilometers from the Greenway.
Mazarrón joins geographical areas of Galicia and Catalonia that in 2016 saw the opportunity to show their potential thanks to the project Google Street View Loan Program.
This platform shows a great number of places of special interest and architectural beauty or landscape, places of difficult access of tourist zones of reference like Petra or The Galapagos Islands.
Thanks to this project integrates Mazarrón as one of the entities with more kilometers of Street View Trekker Loan Program of Spain.
For the capture of the images has worked a team of technicians and volunteers of the City of Mazarron.
The result can start to be verified in the tools of Google Maps and the Google Street View App.
The realization of the project can be seen in an explanatory video whose link is already available: https://youtu.be/ZfOHVNnYOiw
Fitur is one of the three most important international appointments in the sector, being a showcase for each of the participating municipalities.
Numerous means of communication cover the information that is generated these days in the fairgrounds of Madrid.
Alicia Jiménez has attended several of the media displaced to this appointment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón