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The Ciar increases 73% visitors during the first half of the year
30/08/2010
The Center of interpretation of the agriculture and irrigation (CIAR), located on the farm of La Alfranca - twenty kilometres from Zaragoza-, sand it has established itself as a reference for farms education. This can be seen from more than 10,000 visits registered during the first half of the year, i.e. by 73% over the same period of 2009. With an average of 1,600 visitors per month, the largest increase has been registered in guided tours, with an increase of 132,55%, while free visits have grown 24,78 per cent.
The Ciar, which manages the public company Sirasa, has a clear orientation towards schoolchildren and students of agricultural specialities and has hosted the visit of more than 25,000 people since it opened its doors in March 2008. The Centre, only one of these features in Spain, was born with the vocation of becoming a reference in the farms education and implementation knowledge of natural and technological values of the rural world, with particular attention to agriculture, the modernization of irrigation and the correct use of the water.
