The municipality bet at the International Tourism Fair of Madrid, for an offer of global tourism, health, beauty, food and ecotourism around a common element, salt.
The mayor of San Javier, Visitation Martinez, Director of the Conservative Salinas y Arenales Regional Park of San Pedro, Jose Luis Manovel and Managing Health Center Vital Aguas Salinas, Sonia Vives, presented today at the stand of the Region Murcia at FITUR tourism in the town under the slogan "San Pedro del Pinatar, Paradise Salado".
In the opening ceremony, Visitation Martinez stressed the qualities of the town, with 14 kilometers of coastline on the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean, warm temperatures throughout the year, the Regional Park of Arenales and Salinas, and quality specialized services including include marinas, thermal and thalassotherapy facilities and a hotel offer with more than 1,400 seats.
San Pedro, an eminently tourist town, shown in FITUR 2016 which has a differentiator, salt, natural element always linked to the town.
Therefore, "Paradise Salado" tourism is in full represented under three pillars salt in Salinas, one of the most interesting ecosystems of the Region of Murcia, salt health as an ideal complement to treatments and mud salt salted, Roman legacy that endures to this day.
The mayor has said that San Pedro del Pinatar commitment to the natural resources that make us unique to contribute to the seasonality of tourism drawing inter alia the natural environment, ideal for getting close to nature, the gastronomic wealth and importance of salt in the preparation of salted and of course, the virtues of sludge and hypersaline waters of the Mar Menor.
The Conservative Director of Salinas y Arenales Regional Park of San Pedro Jose Luis Manovel, explained the variety of environments unique environment that offers the municipality, salt pans, dunes, pine forests, salt marshes, reed beds, etc ,.
An important natural landscape that is in equilibrium with the salt mining since Roman times developed in this area form a unique landscape.
Ecotourism is favored by wetlands, the salt mills, the peculiar fauna and flora that live in the park and visitors can see through the 7 natural routes that are held throughout the year.
Meanwhile, Sonia Vives, Manager of the Center for Health Vital Aguas Salinas emphasized the great therapeutic value of the sludge in different types of bone, skin and respiratory disorders.
Sludge ponds Lo Pagan are the result of centuries of action of sunlight and high salinity waters of the Mar Menor.
The result is a clay, applied to the skin, has great therapeutic value in all kinds of conditions: rheumatism, arthritis, gout, skin diseases, rehabilitation after bone fractures, throat, etc.
The ideal complement to treatment is to take a swim in the mineral waters of the Mar Menor.
Health Vital Aguas Salinas is one of the centers specializing in thalassotherapy used under medical supervision, the benefits of the marine environment in curative and preventive treatments.
After the presentation could enjoy a tasting products San Pedro del Pinatar: "With taste of sea and salt", which consisted of salted and smoked offered by local companies, "Salt Garre" and "salted and smoked Pedrín" following betting on the traditional production.
Marine delicacies were accompanied by wines from Yecla and beer Estrella de Levante.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar