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Murcia, Jaraba, Lanjarón, Yeste and Baños de Montemayor,
The municipalities of Archena (Murcia), Jaraba (Zaragoza), Lanjaron (Granada), Yeste (Albacete) and Baños de Montemayor (Cáceres) have obtained excellent thermal Villa mention for its high quality level of services they offer and Entities Local hosting facility on its territory a resort with medicinal mineral waters. The awards have been handed over by the President of the FEMP at a ceremony held at the headquarters of the Federation.
The five municipalities distinguished members of the Section of Local Entities with Mineral and Thermal Waters, integrated within the FEMP, which currently comprises more than one hundred municipalities and county councils.
The winners have been subjected to rigorous study of a total of 62 spa towns across Spain and comprises various quality standards such as management, planning and management for the Thermal Village, a resource assessment and hydromineral mineromedicinal use or management of tourism, accommodation and catering, among others
To achieve the excellent rating, the municipalities have had to achieve a score above 80% in all tested quality standards. The quality indications are valid for two years, so that by 2013 there will be a further review of the status of compliance with these standards.
The development of spa towns, as explained by the President of the FEMP, Juan Ignacio Zoido, aims to be model of sustainable tourism, promoting the respect for the environment, the health of its residents and visitors, creating quality jobs and an urban strategy that starts from the spas, admire its diverse natural and cultural heritage, especially in rural areas, home to most spa towns.
Springs Villas section of the FEMP in 2008 defined a series of quality standards on the one hand, take into account the variety of criteria relating to the management of the Thermal Village as a tourist destination based sustainable spas, and secondly, Minimum requirements to be met by Springs Villas to reach a future voluntary quality certification specific to these entities.
Archena (Excellent Quality)
The thermal water spring that emerges few kilometers to the urban core is the fundamental reference Archena Township and probably the item that is identified more abroad. The healing properties of its waters, as used by Iberians and Romans made Archena was, by far the most visited resort in Spain in the late nineteenth century. The influx of visitors, often staying in the homes of the neighbors, he has given the town its open and allowed thermal tourism, was not yet known when that concept was a complement-based economy logically in its agricultural wealth. The profound changes of the last fifty years and the increasingly apparent importance of the spas in Spain has acquired over the past decade have turned into a resort Archena and services, displacing agriculture as main source of jobs and wealth .
Jaraba (Excellent Quality)
Jaraba environment with attractive natural sites that attract many visitors attracted not only by the hot springs, but also for sporting activities in the Rio Canyon Reservoir Mesay the gate, or the proximity of the well known monastery House, with its lush waterfalls and placid lakes. The City Council has made an intensive Jaraba recovery work nature trails that provide access to the sites of environmental interest to see, for example, junipers and pines Negrales alternated with the riverside forest composed of willows, poplars and ash. In the stone cliffs rise on both sides of river channels, is an important birdlife habitats, with one colony of griffon vultures most important of the Iberian Peninsula. It is also easy to see copies of vulture, peregrine falcons, owls and eagles.
Lanjarón (Excellent Quality)
Situated between the capital of the province (Granada) and the Costa Tropical, the town of Lanjaron is famous for its waters, which are marketed under different names and, of course, famous for its spa. Located in the western part of the Alpujarra, much of the municipality is part of the Sierra Nevada National Park, which gives it a special attraction. The life of the town revolves around its spa, located in the city center, and the thousands of springs that come each year to these facilities and all the other hotels, justify the Grenadian people is "one of the first in Andalusia" with more hotel rooms per capita, with only 3750 residents, the hotels are about a thousand.
Yeste (Excellent Quality)
Yeste (Albacete) is the most important town of the 14 districts that has the municipality, much of it integrated into the Natural Park of the Feather River Mundo and Sima. A narrow road flanked by a beautiful local and lush nature, leads, after 13 kilometers, the resort town of Tus, settled on the banks of the river that bears its name, in the deep valley carved by the flow of water through the centuries. In spite of the hidden place, the hot springs that flow in this privileged corner were already used by the Romans. Today is a modern facility renews each year.
Baños de Montemayor (High Quality)
Baños de Montemayor (Cáceres), located at the bottom of Valle del Ambroz with abundant chestnut trees and other native species, has one of the most important Roman thermal sets of the Peninsula. The Roman thermal past is reborn with the recent excavations have allowed emerge from the large Roman villa that should occupy a large area of the municipality. The rooms that are preserved in the ancient spa show the importance it had in its day. This great space has been renovated to house a museum with beautiful and evocative intact Roman baths, which together with other pieces, and spaces for bathrooms and caldarium, constitute a true immersion into the world of Roman baths. Some of these spaces have been transformed into swimming areas for treatment and thermal circuits in the style of that era, but with advances and conveniences that current technology allows.
