The Department of the Environment of Dénia yesterday inaugurated an exhibition on the town's urban gardens and their users, combining photographs and an audiovisual with physical elements related to the cultivation of the land, with the aim of offering visitors an immersive and educational experience in this practice.
The exhibition also seeks to highlight the benefits of this activity, which the City Council launched on the Torrecremada estate more than a decade ago, "which gives life to users", and to highlight the benefits it brings to the health, nutrition, social relationships and personal well-being of people over 60 years of age who participate, highlighted Councillor Sandra Gertrúdix.
In “Views of the Land” a total of 28 photographs are presented, illustrating the fallow land, the tools used in the garden and the users working the land, harvesting or meeting in moments of rest and leisure, such as a good lunch or a game of dominoes. A composition of four photographs taken from the air is also displayed, showing the different phases of the gardens and allowing the public an overview of the project.
Distributed throughout the room are items related to agricultural activity, such as a motor cultivator, a composter, hoes, sickles and pitchforks, straw hats and rubber boots, cane fences and boxes with vegetables grown in the urban gardens of Dénia.
In addition, an audiovisual is projected with interviews with users, where they recount their personal experiences, their relationship with the land and the benefits they experience from this activity. In that same corner, elements have been placed that symbolize the social aspect of life in the garden: a sandwich and a wineskin, a set of dominoes and a deck of cards, evoking those moments of shared recreation.
The exhibition on urban gardens, “Views of the Earth”, can be visited at the Casa de Cultura in Dénia until November 23.
Urban gardens in figures
The urban gardens have been growing since they were launched on the Torrecremada estate in 2011.
The first phase consists of 46 plots, five of which were transferred by the City Council to TAPIS.
In the second phase, 48 more gardens were created.
And in a few days, on November 18, the 54 plots of phase III are scheduled to be handed over to the users who were awarded the land. In this new phase, two plots will be allocated to the Cerebrum association and two others to the AEPA foundation.
Fantastic initiative worthy of praise.
In the same way that someone from the local administration decides to CLEAN UP the rubbish that currently exists on our beaches in La Marina, specifically in the Albaranas area:
Accumulation of putrefied posidonia. Accumulation of reeds and tree trunks from other floods.
Stagnant waters on the shore of the beach
Bad smells all along the beach.
The beaches, our beaches, our great heritage are a showcase of a misunderstanding of environmental preservation... I invite the council to stroll along the shore of Albaranas beach and then this criticism of management is valid.
We must take care of the beaches!!!! Where the cleanliness and the smell of the sea are worthy of being contemplated with our senses and not only with the ecological and political sense.