MONDAY was not a holiday for everyone, especially at the Torrevieja Town Hall, where a meeting was held by the City Council about a proposed further collaboration between Torrevieja and their sister of Pola de Siero, in Asturias. The meeting was chaired by mayor, Pedro Hernandez Mateo and attended by the Cultural and Festivities councillor, Eduardo Dolon Sánchez, representatives from the PSOE, IU and the Greens, along with the Deputy Mayor of Siero and Councillor for Tourism and Culture, Mauritius Adrian Bogomak, their mayor Angel Antonio Garcia Gonzalez, and others.
The meeting held various discussions in how best to establish new ways of collaboration between the municipalities, which included business exchanges aimed at the economic sector, tourism and sports. Torrevieja’s mayor reported that they were looking at the possibility of promoting student exchanges in sport so that young Asturian school children could develop their sailing and water skills and enjoy the new Sports City Complex while students from Torrevieja would learn more about environmental activities, such as hiking and multi-activity programs, in Asturias.
Relations between Pola de Siero and beyond go back over fifty years to 1957, the year that the Asturian city began the participation in the Habanera contest. Their strong participation at the highest level won the first prize in the competition held in 1960. The other important link between the town halls is that La Pola and Torrevieja are two booming cities, who are well aware of what it means to move forward and address the needs of their rapidly growing populations. The cities have been Twinned since September 6, 2008.
