Castedo Announces New Monuments Plan aimed at installing sculptures in enclaves of the capital.  Children Alicante city will visit the Spanish geography through an Iberian relief map installed in the Plaza Calvo Sotelo, who played the rivers of the peninsula with a water circuit and also includes mountains, orographic ridges and other elements.

The Mayor of Alicante, Sonia Castedo, together with the Councillor for Culture, Miguel Valor, and the mayor of Fiestas, Marta Garcia-Romeu, among other members of the municipal government, inaugurated this relief map, which is an exact replica of another that remained in the Park Canalejas in the early forties. This is a "wonderful" way to recover the heritage of the city, in this case within the Plan grants E, stressed Castedo.

In his view, the new development will mark a milestone the way they see children geography."

Along with the work the inscription: "This map of Spain is faithful heir formerly installed at the Outdoor School in the Park Canalejas for use, enjoyment and education of Alicante."

It also has built a message from the current mayor that says: "As the study and learning, this map should be part of life and dreams of future generations of children."

Castedo explained that they have located the map in that post because of  the large number of children" and regarded it with the same work "that many children have grown up in the city of Alicante.

The relief of the elements of the Iberian Peninsula has been deliberately exaggerated and, unlike the old map, made ​​of concrete, the new amber is carved on stone and river water flows with a mechanism of communicating vessels, not need to be any pressure nozzle.
The monument was made by a team of stone masons using as base type amber flamed" from Granada.

With supervision from Luisa Biosca, care taker of Alicante´s Culture, a group of seven professionals of the stone carving has worked on its implementation for six weeks.

The map was constructed in four parts, which are united in their place of installation. On the surface of the peninsula, have carved the main rivers, by running a symbolic flow of water. The ridges and peaks are evident in the new monument, which is accompanied by a metal plate in which reading the major landforms of Spain is specified. In the evening look with proper lighting.

The mayor said that the city will continue its focus on the monumental heritage, advancing in line so significant commitment to culture in the legislature."

In this sense, it has been announced that it will be working on a new plan aimed at the installation Monuments of sculptures by further embodiment in significant enclaves of the capital. This is a continuation of the two rehabilitation plans of public sculptures, which have been deployed in recent years to "repair and valuing diverse works and art collections."