Portal de San Pedro del Pinatar
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The City is currently participating in the working group of the modification of the Coastal and parallel revises its General Plan, which dates from 1984
The Ministry of Public Works and Planning today celebrating World Town Planning Day with a visit from the staff of the Directorate General of Land and Housing in the municipality of San Pedro del Pinatar.
This commemoration, celebrating this General since 1996, born from the initiative of the Argentine engineer Carlos Maria della Paolera, who launched the popular shows on the air, the sun and vegetation as a trilogy of natural elements essential to human life.
The Director General of Planning and Housing, Yolanda Muñoz, said the World Town Planning Day "is a good opportunity to raise public awareness and to all those responsible for town and country planning of the need to work together in the organization of the territory and in the construction of the city, key elements of a quality development. "
"That's why every edition we choose a different location in order to disclose the meaning of this holiday locally and also to value, from the standpoint of territorial and urban, each of the municipalities of the Region of Murcia" said Yolanda Muñoz.
San Pedro del Pinatar, with a population of around 25,000 inhabitants and a strong growth in recent years, recalled the director, "is one of the municipalities with the highest income per capita in the region and higher density, due to its municipal reduced ".
The director explained that the City of San Pedro del Pinatar is currently participating in the working group of the modification of the Coastal and works in parallel on revising its General Plan, which dates from 1984.
The urban land occupies more than 15 percent of its territory and the rest are classified as building land.
"This seaside town has protected more than 71 percent of its territory, in staking the Natural Protected Area of ​​the Salinas and Arenales, declared a Special Protection Area for Birds and Site of Community, and the irrigation area of ​​Transfer in the northern part of town, "said the director.
The core of San Pedro is attached to the core virtually coast of Lo Pagan, which is a whole city without interruption, with a road in irregular grid structure, articulated by rounds bordering the countryside and the salt.
History of the hamlet of El Pinatar
The site of El Pinatar, at the confluence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Mar Menor is, from time immemorial, both contested terrain exploiting its natural resources-fish and salt-and for its strategic location on the Via Augusta and as an boundary marker between the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.
Munoz recalled that, in the early seventeenth century, with the foundation of the chapel dedicated to St. Peter, begins the process of repopulation, once consolidated the reconquest, which is not guaranteed, on the other hand, the safety of the public from Berber attacks.
It is in the eighteenth century, and the danger disappeared privateer, ie when the great expansion of the town, as dependent Realengo Mayor of Murcia, getting to the end of this century by Royal Concession Annual Fair.
The parish church of San Pedro replaced the old chapel and its surroundings ample space is configured as the new town center (now Constitution Square) which is also located after independence achieved in 1836, the Town Hall, now moved to a new building.
Source: CARM
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