MAYOR MORERA CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR TOURISM

Casares Mayor Antonia Morera has called on the Spanish Government to honour its commitment to investment in tourism improvements. In particular she wants the government to contribute to the Qualifica programme which it has ignored since 2012. The Mayor called on the mayors of the eight municipalities which make up the coastline of the Costa del Sol to put pressure on the government to meet its commitments. The Qualifica programme has helped fund the building of Calle Camacha in Casares, as well as the bridge over Arroyo La Jordana and the Manilva river. There are fears that the Ayuntamientos will be left with the outstanding bills for the programme if the central government does not pay its contribution.

MAJOR DOCUMENTARY ON THE CIVIL WAR TIO BE SCREENED IN CASARES THIS EVENING

An important documentary on the Spanish Civil War and its effects on a local village will be screened in Casares tonight. The documentary is about the destruction by Franco’s forces of the village of La Sauceda in the natural park of Los Alcornocales and the fate of its 2,000 inhabitants. The documentary film, “La Sauceda - from Utopia to Horror”, will be screened at five o’clock this evening at the Casa de la Cultura. The village was the last republican stronghold in the area and it was attacked  by four columns of Franco’s army. After the village was destroyed, the survivors were locked in a  farmhouse and every day five or six people were taken from there and executed. The screening will be followed by a presentation from the book “A valley of beauty and pain, the tragedy of Sauceda” by Luis Garcia Bravo. The event is being organised by the Department of Culture with the help of local historian, Benito Trujillano.