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Tourist transfer Donating blood
ASPE is calling on anyone who is eligible to donate blood to offer their services on Thursday, March 30.
Blood donations are being taken at the Centro Sanitario Integrado, Avda Juan Carlos I and Jaime I between 4.30pm and 8.30pm.
The council added that there are three very important reasons for donating: Blood cannot be manufactured, it is essential for operations and emergencies and has a shelflife so cannot be stored indefinitely.
Blood or the components of blood are used to treat patients with medical conditions such as anaemia, cancer blood disorders, and those having surgery.
Blood is made up of a number of components, including red blood cells, platelets and plasma. Each of these can be used to treat many different conditions.
Blood is usually separated into its individual components or parts, so a patient can be given the particular component they need.
Progress of planning
ORIHUELA City Council and the department for City Planning held an engaging information session about property acquisition in the region on Thursday, March 16. The talk was specifically targeted towards foreign residents in the region who were invited to learn more.
City mayor Carolina Gracia, explained that the objective of the event was to help people who face difficulties com
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Free parking
CITY parking can be a nightmare and in a bid to alleviate the stress, Elche City Council has created an additional 300 new free parking spaces.
These spaces are located on Avenida Alcalde Ramon Pastor, next to IES Vicente Verdu, and on Avenida de Jubalcoi, in AltabixUniversidad.
municating with the administration to understand the resources available to them to help them authorise their properties and in completing any accompanying paperwork.
Gracia also highlighted the efforts of the Valencian Conselleria de Urbanismo to make city planning and property ownership more accessible and understandable to as many people as possible.
ORIHUELA has now moved its tourist office to the Marques de Arneva Palace.
The councillor for Tourism, Maria Garcia, has indicated that the transfer of the Tourist Office responds to the need to “find a definitive location, recover spaces that improve our historic quarter, find a location with easier parking and in the heart of the city.
“The opening of the new building gives us independence from the city council itself and allows us to take advantage of the beautiful Plaza del Carmen as a meeting point,” she added.
In the new tourist office, visitors have the facility to charge their mobile phones whilst discovering what the city has to offer.
The General Director of Tourism for Valencia, Erick Campos, confirmed: “Orihuela is a strategic point in its tourist offer, it is a multiproduct destination, where culture and gastronomy stand out and we need Orihuela to act as the driving force of the region.”
For more information head to the website: orihuelaturis tica@orihuela.es, email: ori huelacentro@touristinfo.net, call: ( +34) 965 304 645 or WhatsApp: (+34) 673 836 385.
The news was reported by the councillor for Public Space, Hector Diez, who also recalled that a few days ago more than 50 parking spaces in the Vall d’Uixo round, in the Carrus industrial estate came into operation.
In the last few months, more than 500 parking spaces have been created in Calles Rocio, Formentera and Benijofar, next to the recently inaugurated garden in Homage to the Victims of Covid19.
More than 350 parking spaces will soon be created on the site adjacent to the Sixto Marco Secondary School and in Calles Costa Rica and Hiladores.
