MÁLAGA, November 13. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Malaga City Council Sports Area has started its school programs for another year, including the Pequesendas, which this year will have more than 1,250 participants.

These schoolchildren and teachers will carry out 25 outings, one of the three routes offered by the Sports Area (coastal, Gibralfaro castle and a new route proposed for the first time this year through the Citronniere reservoir).

The Councilor for Sports, Borja Vivas, attended the first outing of this municipal program in the Pedro Luis Alonso gardens.

The activity is aimed at minors from the city’s primary schools and, on this occasion, the mayor welcomed the students of CEIP Colmenarejo (Campanillas district), who went up to the castle and received historical knowledge about this monument, l ‘Alcazaba. , Mount Gibralfaro and the gardens through which the route passes, the town hall said in a press release.

This first session was attended by 50 primary school students, accompanied by four teachers, who left the Pedro Luis Alonso gardens in the direction of La Coracha and continued towards the fortress. This Pequesenda is one of the twelve that the Sports Zone has prepared until the Christmas holidays.

The courses will run until June for at least 25 schools. This activity is being carried out for the tenth year and includes historical, monumental, faunal and floristic information about our city. Since its launch in 2014, this activity has had around 8,000 schoolchildren and teachers who have developed these visits.

The three routes designed this year are, on the one hand, the Pequesenda del Castillo de Gibralfaro, which has 3.6 kilometers (and 5.5 kilometers for the accessible route), the route begins on Avenida de Cervantes, in the gardens of Pedro Luis Alonso, next to Malaga town hall. Cross towards La Coracha, Paseo Don Juan Temboury, old Alcazaba tunnel, Mundo Nuevo street, ascent route to Gibralfaro, north gate of Gibralfaro castle (Albarrana tower or white tower). Enter the castle and visit its most emblematic points. Come down from La Coracha, stop at Mirador de Gibralfaro and Jardines de Pedro Luis Alonso.

On the other hand, the coastline of Pequesenda of 3.1 kilometers, which begins the route next to the El Candado Nautical Club beach, continues along the Paseo de los Canadienses, the Peñón del Cuervo beach, the Cimenterie and from the Barrio de La Araña, from the Interpretation Center of the archaeological sites of La Araña, the Torre Vigía de las Palomas, to return. This course is suitable and accessible to all boys and girls.

Likewise, there is the 3.7 kilometer Pequesenda del Marais, which begins at the entrance gate of the La Concepción peri-urban forest park, climbs to an observation area and continues to the area of picnic to return to the same starting point along the path further to the left. at the boundaries of the park.

To facilitate travel, the Sports Space subsidizes each school with a bus and provides schoolchildren with municipal caps, notebooks and backpacks.

The “Pequesendas” benefit from the collaboration of the Cultural Space of the Town Hall, which offers these groups free access to the Gibralfaro Castle.