El Puerto will renovate Parque Calderón and create a calisthenics area in Hernán Díaz

The El Puerto de Santa María City Council has put out to tender a package of works affecting two parks in the city: Parque Calderón and Parque Alcalde Hernán Díaz. The actions seek to restore the landscape image of the first and expand the outdoor sports offering in the second. In Parque Calderón, 60 date palms (Phoenix dactylifera), with trunks of about three metres, will be planted in tree pits that are now empty. The 74 existing tree pits will be restored with a new coloured finish and anti-graffiti treatment. 960 plants will also be added, including lavenders, sages, cotton lavenders and thymes, in the tree pits of the new palms. The project also includes the recovery of the park's three classic flowerbeds, with a combined surface area of 280 square metres: the main one, of 154 square metres, with Callistemon and Phyla nodiflora, and the other two, of 63 square metres each and located under the ficus trees, with acanthus and clivias. 15 new benches of approximately 1.80 metres will also be installed, with a backrest and wood-imitation finish in recycled material, installed on the top of the tree pits so as not to take up more pavement space. The work will be completed with a new automated drip and sprinkler irrigation network. The project continues previous work in the park, which included the transplanting of Washingtonia specimens and the replacement of around thirty date palms, according to the City Council.

The second area of the action is Parque Alcalde Hernán Díaz, where a 172-square-metre calisthenics area will be installed. The new equipment adds to the park's sports offering and will allow people with different levels of physical fitness to train outdoors. The actions in both parks, which are part of El Puerto's Reforestation Plan, fall within the Cádiz Marcha + 2026 programme of the Cádiz Provincial Council. The works will be organised in phases to maintain, as far as possible, the operation and accessibility of both spaces during the works. The mayor, Germán Beardo, has stated that the project «combines the recovery of a historic space such as Parque Calderón with new sports facilities in Parque Alcalde Hernán Díaz».