After announcing that around 14,000 people attended this year’s Romeria de San Isidro, the Councillor for Popular Traditions, Charo Villasclaras, expressed sadness to hear that during the festivities, the Manager of the Caves Foundation announced on Tele Nerja that if he is elected mayor he will seek to move the festival from its current location at the Nerja Caves.
The squabbling continues
The Nerja History Museum remains closed to the public and continues to be a major subject of rhetoric between the two main political parties in the long run-up to the municipal elections.
Nerja Caves visitor numbers for Easter
The number of visitors to the Nerja Caves during Easter was up by 29.77% compared to last year with 14,345 people visiting the site.
Councillors refused entry to the Nerja Caves
Angélica Portillo, Councillor for Culture, and Antonio Gallardo, Mayor of Maro and member of the Nerja Caves Foundation, have complained that they were denied entry to the Nerja Caves for the ‘My First Concert in the Caves’ organised by the municipality.
Botanical garden project to start shortly
Four years after the submission of the draft proposal, work on the 30,000 square metre botanical gardens next to the Nerja Caves could be about to start.
Botanical gardens project given green light
After almost five years of delays and proverbial red tape, the Junta de Andalucia has apparently finally given the go-ahead for the botanical garden project at the Nerja Caves.
Cortés in the Caves
Tickets are now on sale for a concert on December 4th by local Nerja favourite Antonio Cortés as he promotes his new album ‘Lo que a mi ne está pasando’. The concert takes place inside the Nerja Caves, the first time ever such an event has occurred outside the regular summer festival. Tickets, costing €30, can be obtained from the …
Another skirmish in the Battle for the Caves
The Council spokesman and member of the Nerja Caves Foundation, José Miguel García, has been bemoaning the continued decline in visitor numbers to the Nerja Caves and, basically, laying the blame fairly and squarely at the feet of the manager of the Caves (and Opposition PSOE spokesman) Ángel Ramírez.
Nerja Caves Foundation begins preparation for museum exhibits
The Nerja Caves Foundation has begun to make an inventory of excavated relics to be displayed in the new museum and locating various items currently distributed in various other regions such as Madrid and Valencia.
The battle for the Caves
The Council has now filed an appeal with the Court of Contentious Administration to officially suspend work on the Museum project, maintaining that the procedures relating to a loan obtained from the Cajamar bank contained ‘irregularities’.