A new proposal for the Harineras mills
Alicante City Council ignored our proposal to use the protected Harineras buildings on Avenida de Elche for a major museum of art and digital science, MUDIGA (https://avparquedelmaralicante.com/en/mudiga-en/). We are coming back with a new proposal, this time for an ethnological museum to preserve and exhibit Alicante’s social and cultural heritage. It seems incredible that our city lacks something you can find in towns across Spain. It would give visitors another place of interest and could revitalise Alicante, especially the south. It would be housed in Harinas Cloquell, the building the council retains for public facilities. This is and will remain one of our priorities because of the enormous benefits of seeing it through and the harm of leaving the area neglected. In our view, rats, occupation, dirt, marginalisation, prostitution and decline in the city, especially in the south, are direct consequences of the council’s habitual slowness and neglect of this part of Alicante. We fight that with regret, because we would prefer a much more cordial relationship if there were a genuine will to change things. We hope this new attempt to restore the value of the Harineras area fares better. The ‘City of Music’ that Mayor Luis Barcala announced and promised for the Harineras complex on Avenida de Elche at the last election has come to nothing, and there is no sign that it will. What a pity.
