Landscape restoration and art walk hand in hand towards AlVelAl 8000

A pioneering and inclusive project of landscape and socio-economic restoration through the creation of a new business case 4 Returns: inspiration, natural, social and economic. A new business case to be managed by APAFA, the Association of Parents, Relatives and Friends of People with Intellectual Disabilities; maintaining, maintaining and marketing products derived from aromatic plants such as essential oils and natural cosmetics products, among others.

AlVelAl 8000 consists of reforestation with autochthonous species, especially aromatic, in the place El Tomillar, in Vélez Blanco; located in the foothills of La Solana de La Muela de Montalviche.
A large-scale restoration project that combines nature and art through Land Art. And is that this repopulation will be done on 3 hectares, planting aromatic so as to imitate two of the most emblematic figures of the Cave of Los Letreros, more than 8,000 years old and declared World Heritage by UNESCO: El Indalo and La Línea.

Two living Land Art sculptures that will be visible from the Cueva de Los Letreros itself, thus joining two icons of the AlVelAl territory such as La Cueva de Los Letreros and La Muela de Montalviche; from various viewpoints that are miles away from this spot and from the heights.

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