Date Published: 29/01/2024

Jumilla Town Council begins to fight climate change at the local level

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Have your say on the town’s action climate plan while it is still in the consultation phase

Jumilla Town Council begins to fight climate change at the local level

The Department for the Environment in the northern Murcia town of Jumilla has drafted a climate action plan and is now in a public consultation phase to welcome local people’s opinions and feedback on the scheme.

The Ayuntamiento de Jumilla’s Action Plan for Climate and Sustainable Energy (‘Pacto de las Alcaldías por el Clima y la Energía’ or PACES for short, which itself is a play on words as the word means ‘peace’, as in to make peace) has been developed within the framework of the European initiative Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.

The aim is to achieve, in the words of the Town Hall itself, “a key instrument to combat climate change from the local level”. The PACES action plan is currently in a process of citizen participation.

On January 16, 2024, the Local Environment Council was convened in Jumilla, where the agents involved in this matter participated and where they were presented with the draft of the PACES of Jumilla, which includes the suggestions made by all the participants.

The local PACES in Jumilla is published on the notice board of the Town Council of Jumilla with an exhibition period of 15 working days, and so the final day will be Tuesday February 13.

This is in order to proceed with the opening of a process of citizen participation to gather the opinion of locals, and they can make suggestions or contributions prior to the initial approval of this action plan.

These contributions or suggestions from the participants must be made by means of an application in the general registry of the electronic headquarters of the Town Council, or through the e-mail address that has been set up as a suggestion box, sugerenciaspaces@jumilla.org

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Image: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla

Address

Plaza del Rollo, 1 30520 JUMILLA

Tel: 968 780237 / 663 300779

Oficina de Turismo Jumilla

The tourist office in the centre of Jumilla is easily found by driving straight into the centre of the town along the Avenida de Murcia and following the signposts. The tourist office is alongside the Parque de Don Albano Martínez Molina, where there are a number of parking spaces.

Jumilla, in the north of the Region of Murcia, has become internationally famous over recent decades due to the quality of the wines produced in the municipality, and wine tourism has begun to attract visitors from other parts of Spain and the rest of Europe.

The tourist office is happy to provide a range of maps and leaflets showing the different bodegas which can be visited within the municipality. Some of these form part of the Rutas del Vino de Jumilla, the Jumilla wine route, and can either be visited as a guided tour or sell their produce directly to the public.(see feed below for more details)

However, the town and the surrounding countryside have plenty of other attractions for visitors, and the popularity of Jumilla wines is leading more and more people to discover other facets of the tenth largest municipality in Spain.

Jumilla Tourist Office

These include the spectacular countryside and birdlife in the Sierra del Carche, the historic remains which range from cave paintings and a Roman mausoleum to the castle, the Iglesia de Santiago, the Town Hall and the Teatro Vico, and the gastronomy: rich stews are accompanied not only by the wines of the area but also by Jumilla pears, which also enjoy Denomination of Origin status.

Tourism in Jumilla is not as seasonal as it is in the coastal areas of the Region of Murcia, but the town is at its liveliest during the fiestas in Holy Week and the August Fair, which incorporates the grape harvest celebrations and the Moors and Christians parades.

The Altiplano of the Region of Murcia, which consists of the municipalities of Jumilla and Yecla, is only just over an hour by car from the Mar Menor, Cartagena, Mazarrón, Torrevieja and Alicante, and anyone wishing to visit real inland Spain and world-class wineries is advised to include Jumilla in their schedule.

Opening hours

Summer

Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 2pm

Saturday and Sunday 10am to 2pm

Monday closed

Winter

Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 2pm and 5pm to 7pm

Saturday and Sunday 10am to 2pm

Monday closed

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