InfoCórdoba: news from Lucena

The Great Medieval Market and Falconry of the Zoco de Boabdil has opened this Friday in the surroundings of the Castillo del Moral and other squares in Lucena, with stalls, music, parades and falconry displays until Monday, October 12.

The Lucena City Council begins adapting the central building of the old railway station as a tourist hostel, with 34 places and a nine-month execution period.

The Ciudad de Lucena Municipal Football Stadium now has a new LED technology sports scoreboard, a project by the Municipal Sports Service that involved an investment of 15,536 euros.

The municipal Plenary ratified the application for Lucena to obtain that recognition, after approving the first Local Plan for Childhood and Adolescence, which will be in force until 2029.

The Ayuntamiento is starting the remodelling of the street between El Agua and Martín Alonso, with traffic closure, a parking ban and alternative routes for about four months.

The City Council awards the UTE formed by UNEI and FEPAMIC the contract for the conservation of parks and gardens until 2030, with 21 jobs, seven out of every ten for people with disabilities.

The City Council is granting free use for 75 years of an 893 square metre plot next to the church to build new facilities for family support, which currently have only 70 square metres.

The exhibition by artist Marisol Ramos, with almost thirty works on books, interior spaces and emotions, can be visited until November 2nd. The official opening is this afternoon at twenty hours.

The City Council has awarded the renovation of the track's surface for 290,392 euros, which will include a new shot put area and could begin in the coming weeks.

The Ayuntamiento and the Vespa Club Lucena are organizing a gathering from October 1 to 4 with more than two hundred participants, a concert in the city center and a route through several municipalities of the region.

The Casa de los Mora will host a talk and a workshop on nutrition and cancer on October 2 and 16, organized by the Universidad de Córdoba, the Centro de Desarrollo and the Ayuntamiento de Lucena.

Officers seized several doses of a substance that could be LSD and hashish, along with fragmented cash, after observing an alleged sale on Corralás street.

The third edition of the Historical Novel Conference will be held on October 8 and 9 in the entrepatios room at the Casa de los Mora in Lucena, with free admission until capacity is reached.

The City Council is organizing this Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th of September heritage routes, audioguide tours, and a hiking route, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the Andalucía Tourism Award for Excellence in Tourism Management.

The distinction, in the Transformative Entrepreneurship category, will be collected on September 30 in Sigüenza and recognizes the more than 60-year history of the city's climate control industry.

Forty residents of Lucena, including ten children, have spent eight weeks creating eight panels with about twelve thousand tesserae, which can now be seen permanently at the site.

The event took place on Thursday, September 24 at IES Marqués de Comares, which this year celebrates its 75th anniversary, with recognitions for retired teaching staff and students with the best academic results.

Plaza Nueva hosted the Active Mobility Circuit on Tuesday, September 22, organized by the Parque Infantil de Tráfico to mark European Car Free Day, with activities for all ages.

An operation at the Parque Empresarial «Príncipe Felipe» resulted in several fines and a motorcycle seized and immobilized, following a neighbor's report of nighttime races.

The school's new dining hall has been operating since the start of the school year and serves more than a hundred students, following renovation work by the Ayuntamiento de Lucena.