Yecla greenway receives the 2025 Blue Trail award

Yecla now boasts two of the 26 officially recognized Senderos Azules in the Region of Murcia

The Vía Verde del Chicharra greenway in Yecla has been recognised with the 2025 Blue Trail award by the Environmental and Consumer Education Association (Adeac), a reward for the efforts to create an environmentally-friendly hike through the spectacular countryside of Yecla and the northern plateau of the Region of Murcia.

The award was received at a ceremony held at the Murcia Region Tourism Institute by Mayoress Remedios Lajara and Councillor Mª Isabel Pérez Millán, and it means that Yecla now boasts two of the 26 trails in the Region of Murcia which currently enjoy this status, the other being the spectacular Yecla Valora walkways on the castle hill behind the town. In total these 26 routes cover a distance of over 150 kilometres, representing 15% of the distance included in the whole of Spain, due to the 11 new paths added to the list this year, a figure surpassed only by the regions of the Comunidad Valenciana and Galicia.

The 11 new “Senderos Azules” in Murcia, apart from the greenway in Yecla, are the Tres Bahías route in Águilas, the Sendero de El Bayo in Calasparra, the walking and cycling route from Lorquí to Los Palacios and the Ruta Urbana Avenida Ginés Asensio in Lorquí, the El Alamillo-La Alameda-Las Balsicas and Variante Calas de Bolnuevo-Sierra de las Moreras routes in Mazarrón, the Ruta de los 10.001 Pasos and the Sendero de la Umbría del Bosque de Espuñain Mula and the Sendero Río Margen Izquierdo in the city of Murcia.

The remaining 15 routes previously awarded Sendero Azul status are in the municipalities of Cartagena, San Pedro del Pinatar, Mazarrón, Águilas, Ceutí, Abarán, Archena, Mula and Águilas.

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