Great news from the Councillor for Tourism Francisco Cañestro, ugly and unsightly power lines and telephone cables that blight the historic quarters of Ronda are to be removed and placed underground over the next three years as part of the continuing beautification of the city for tourists and residents.
For several years comments by tourists in international forums, blogs, and magazine articles have criticised Ronda for the unattractiveness of seeing power cables ruin good photos of historic buildings and streetscapes, in fact so bad has been the situation that many local hotels refuse to add photos of the outside of their buildings to their marketing unless the cable could be airbrushed out.
All of this is now finally set to change beginning in Calles Méndez Moreno, Sor Ángela de la Cruz, and San Juan Bosco as the municipal works department and Voltasur agree to start digging up streets this week.
A budget of 180,000€ has been set aside to bury cables, and will include the Murallas del Carmen, Calle Armiñan, the district surrounding the Mondragon Palace and Ronda’s Santa Maria Church, San Sebastian Minaret and other nearby streets. Already the council has removed power lines in the Patio de Santa Ana (near the Ocho Caños fountain) and adjacent the Puento Nuevo on the Santo Domingo side of the bridge.
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