The Braga City Council will invest around two million euros in the creation of a football field and a leisure park in Gualtar, next to the city’s public hospital, it was announced today.
In a statement, the chamber states that the equipment will be born on a 40-hectare plot that is owned by the University of Minho but whose use will be transferred to the municipality, under a protocol that will be approved on Monday, at a meeting of the executive .
The project includes the integral requalification of the existing playground and the creation of a network of walking routes.
The sports and leisure park is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2022, with both areas open to the general public.
Cited in the statement, the Mayor of Braga, Ricardo Rio, says that this project will provide the population with “another place of excellence” for sporting, formal and informal.
Photo: Disclosure / CM Braga
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“This new sports center improves the existing offer and contributes to the requalification of a space that is currently inactive, supporting the communities of the parish and neighboring parishes, in addition to university sports”, he adds.
Pedestrian circulation circuits will also be created at the site to encourage the enjoyment of space and the development of leisure and recreation in the surroundings of the university campus.
The municipality will be responsible for the development of the rehabilitation and maintenance project for the soccer field with 55 by 90 meters, and for the construction of a bench, with 400 seats, and of the changing rooms.
The municipality will also be responsible for placing lighting, carrying out drainage and water supply works, improving and maintaining the network of pedestrian paths and improving and maintaining the various clearings and the five entrance doors to the park.
The project also includes an intervention on Rua Maria Delfina Gomes, the reformulation of sidewalks and the creation of new parking spaces.
The University of Minho will be responsible for the development of the global intervention architecture project (except for the football field, benches and changing rooms), for tree reforestation, maintenance of green spaces and installation of a video surveillance system in pedestrian circuits and clearings.
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