By Cathy Elelman • Published: 29 Jun 2020 • 14:20
EXHIBITIONS: Skateboarders, roller skaters, scooters and bikers got activities off to a start CREDIT: Ajuntament de Calvia Facebook @ajuntamentdecalvia
THE Calvia skate park in Spain’s popular holiday island in Mallorca is up and running again following a whole series of improvements. The Galatzo park officially reopened its doors on Saturday, with exhibitions of skateboarders, roller skaters, scooters and bikers, as well as young musical talents, to get activities off to a start. CREDIT: Ajuntament de Calvia Facebook @ajuntamentdecalvia Calvia Mayor Alfonso Rodriguez, Mallorca island council Participation and Youth director Alex Segura, and several members of Calvia council were there for the event, which also featured a youth information point, a badge workshop and ab point for the “No i Punt” campaign against sexual aggression. Works on the park have consisted of the upgrade and extension of the existing skate areas into a total space of 1,500 square metres. In addition, new lighting has been installed and there is now a second entrance to the site. The total cost of the works was just short of €290,000.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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