Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant receives the "Blue Path"

Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant has won the "Blue Trail" award for the Jonquet Coastal Trail. It is a quality label awarded by the Environmental and Consumer Education Association (ADEAC), with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, with the objective of promoting the sustainable development of coastal areas through The fulfillment of quality criteria that guarantee the preservation and improvement of existing environmental conditions; Safety and ease of use for visitors, and an integrated and coherent management of the natural, historical, cultural and ethnographic values ​​that make up the coastal heritage.

For the award-winning municipalities, it is a "recognition of their work in improving and restoring their natural natural and ethnological heritage," according to ADEAC.

"The Jonquet Litoral Trail is one of the only four Blue Paths in the Tarragona demarcation", explained the Councilor for Tourism, Elida López, who on Friday, June 2 received this recognition from the hands of the president of the ' ADEAC, José Ramón Sánchez, in the ceremony of delivery of the Blue Flags in 95 beaches and 24 Catalan marinas, which took place in the Port of Palamós (Girona). Among the award-winning beaches there are, let us remember, the beaches of Arenal, Punta del Rio and Torn of Vandellòs and l'Hospitalet de l'Infant; And between the award winning marinas, also the one of the municipality.

The Jonquet Litoral Trail, which this summer will be signposted, is a low difficulty trail that links two Blue Flag beaches: the Arenal and the Torn, the Infantes. It runs parallel to the coast and more than half the way crosses the Area of ​​Natural Interest (PEIN) of Rojala-Playa del Torn, where is the islet of Torn, a small promontory of rock attached to the beach that still retains Vestiges of an old guard tower of the XVI century.

As will be reported to the posters and information leaflets that will soon be published by the Department of Tourism, in the embryonic dunes south of Arenal Beach there are plants such as Maresia dwarf, a small herbaceous protected, and a good representation of the Bufalaga marine (Thymelaea hirsuta). In Cala Bea you will find a machine gun nest built during the Civil War to protect the coast from an attack that never occurred. On the beach of the Torn there is a cordon of very high and well formed dunes, with dune fixing plants like the button or the sea lily.

PEJ of Rojala-Torn Beach has been a natural area of ​​interest since 1996 to protect a terrestrial part of Mediterranean coastal forest, and a marine part up to 30m deep with the presence of Posidonia oceanica meadows. The remains of leaves of this plant are often found on the sand.