Benidorm City Council is carrying out actions to improve accessibility of Virgen del Sufragio cemetery. The mayor, Toni Pérez; the Councilor for Cemeteries, Ángela Llorca; and several members of the local government have visited the cemetery today to see how the construction work of the new accessible ramp located in the upper part of the cemetery and the rest of the conservation, maintenance and improvement activities that will be carried out in the next days.
These works are valued at just over 6,000 euros, and include the placement of handrails on all the ramps of the cemetery, the repair of a low wall, the removal of the roots and the stump of a eucalyptus that was damaging the pavement, the replacement of the affected pavement and the waterproofing of the warehouse roof to avoid the appearance of humidity. Predictably, all work will be completed in the coming days.
The Councilor for Cemeteries said that "progressively we have been eliminating the architectural barriers and configuring 100% accessible itineraries that make it easier for users to move around the cemetery; and in fact after this performance the entire surface of the cemetery that could be accessible is already ". At this point, Llorca clarified that "there are areas that it is impossible to make accessible by the configuration of the cemetery."