With an investment of RD$321 million, 125 parks have been renovated by the current management of the Mayor’s Office of the National District (ADN), of which 120 have already been delivered for public enjoyment throughout the territory, the remaining five are ready to be opened to the public at any time.
After the renovation by the ADN, this year the capitaleños have enjoyed Christmas in spaces of healthy recreation and fun, also participating in seasonal activities.
Artistic presentations, evenings of movies, stories and games, as well as children’s festivals, magic shows, Christmas and children’s characters, among other attractions sponsored by ADN, have made Christmas shine with its own light in the city and that the Families had free access to recreational activities.
Under the slogan “There is magic in the city”, the mayoress of the city, Carolina Mejiaoffered a calendar of events throughout the month of December, using different parks in the capital as a setting where hundreds of families came to participate in the activities.
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vision of coexistence
Mejía expressed that the recovery of the aforementioned public spaces are part of a vision of coexistence that can be extrapolated to the entire country so that children and adults can enjoy the parks with dignity in any part of the national territory, not only in the capital.
“This effort that we have been making, that we already have more than 120 spaces for the family, for boys and girls, for young people and the elderly, is not a simple infrastructure intervention, it is not a cold construction of sidewalks and curbs. , it is not a simple renovation; it is a vision of how we should manage ourselves in the city”, said Carolina Mejía recently during the delivery of the park in Los Jardines del Sur.
The mayor emphasized that, after the Covid-19 pandemic people have given more value to public spaces, a reason that strengthens their commitment to the recovery of the capital’s parks.
magic in the city
With the intention of making the Christmas spirit feel, characterized by family gatherings and outings to share, the ADN arranged a series of recreational activities in a large part of the more than 120 parks recovered in the capital.
For this, the mayoress ordered that parks like the Pedro Livio, Latin America, Rosa Duarte, Cruz Jiminian, Honduras, Coral, Villa Francisca, Las Avenidas, Camilaas well as the Juan Baron Square and the Pabellón de las Naciones monument, were the scenarios where the people of the capital could go to enjoy concerts, musicals, skating and recreational activities this Christmas.
Attractions such as skating rinks, ecological elves, Christmas and Disney characters, magic shows, Yo Tambien Puedo Festival, as well as musical spaces from ripiao parakeet, the Bonyé group, Jandy Ventura and Manny Cruz, made up the calendar of events available on the different days of the presentations. Thousands of people enjoy each day in these spaces.
