Africa-Press – Cape verde. The projects for the rural tourist villages of Campanas de Cima, Chã das Caldeiras and Pai António have already been submitted, by the municipal councils of São Filipe, Santa Catarina do Fogo and Mosteiros, to the financing entity.
The implementation of rural tourist villages aims to create an ecosystem that involves the entire tourism value chain, sanitation, organization of paths, landscape enhancement and agriculture.
In Chã das Caldeiras, in the municipality of Santa Catarina, President Alberto Nunes foresees, within the framework of the project, the construction of a sports plaque, a center for the production and sale of craft products, a square and the exterior covering of some houses to standardize the landscape.
The projects listed amount to around 84 million escudos, including a part to finance the construction of the health center in Chã das Caldeiras.
São Filipe
In the municipality of São Filipe, the location chosen as a rural tourist village is Campanas de Cima.
According to Lia Barbosa, councilor responsible for the Culture and Tourism sector, in that area, the Chamber highlighted the construction of a viewpoint, the rehabilitation of the Campanas de Cima/Bordeira trail and intervention in a dozen houses, creating the conditions to welcome tourists.
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The municipality of Mosteiros chose the locality of Pai António, in the highlands, as a rural tourist village, and will benefit from a series of interventions in terms of housing and accessibility to improve and transform the community into a place of tourist interest.
According to Fábio Vieira, president of the municipality, the projects foresee intervention in terms of urbanization, improvement of accessibility and interventions in some houses to accommodate tourists, noting that they were not accounted for because the council does not have the amount to be made available for the implementation of actions in the frame of rural tourist villages.
POT
The program falls within the scope of the Operational Tourism Program – POT in Cape Verde, which proposes the tourist and environmental enhancement of localities in charge of the Tourism Fund.
In 2022, the Minister of Tourism promised that the island of the volcano will benefit from an investment of more than two million escudos over the next five years under the POT project.
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