The Plaza “Comare Maruja
Varo” next to Bar Clavo behind
the Grava beach in the Port has
been inaugurated. This public
space has been named in memory
of a Xàbia midwife who, since the
1960’s attended over 3000 births
spanning several generations in
the town. From Press release
Xàbia has finished renovating
old lime kilns for heritage and
tourism
Two ancient lime kilns have been
restored in the area ravaged by
last September’s fire on the Montgó.
These were used from Roman
times to transform limestone into
lime, a basic component of mortar, mortar construction, plastered
walls, walls or stucco.
The records showed that there
formerly existed 54 in various areas of the municipality, mostly in
forest areas with abundant supplies of wood and stones.
Within the context of works following the fire two kilns known as
‘les faroleres’ have been reconstructed on La Plana’s Cap de Sant
Antoni. For full story see: Montgó
Lime Kilns
Xàbia Municipal election campaigns kick off Coalition parties
present their candidate lists
The political parties which make
up the ruling coalition have made
their first moves in the campaign
for May’s Municipal elections. Xabia Democrática (XD) announced
its joint candidate list with Ciudadanos Por Xàbia - between
them, these two parties currently
have 5 councillors on the ruling
coalition, and hope that by combining forces they can win more.
They are led by current Deputy
Mayor, Oscar Anton. On Monday,
Xàbia’s Socialist (PSOE) mayor,
José Chulvi launched his pitch for
re-election as mayor by giving a
speech in English to an English
speaking audience. Full reports
on both meetings can be found in
Javeamigos - XD / CPJ meeting
and Javeamigos : Chulvi meets
expats - www.javeamigos.com
Britain seeks scientific collaboration with Spain A new initiative launched on Thursday by the
British Embassy in Madrid aims to
capitalize on the so-called “brain
drain” by linking up scientists that
have moved abroad. The new
British Scientists in Spain (BSS)
Network establishes a communications platform between the British and Spanish scientific communities….”Spain has made huge
leaps in areas such as renewable
energy, agri-technology and in the
‘new materials’ sector so we are
working to boost partnership in
those areas.” The field of biomedi-
cal research is also an area where
bridges can be ma