The section of Ecovia Litoral between the access road to Praia de Faro and Quinta do Lago, whose access was blocked for a few days by network fences placed by the landowner, revealed to the Sul Informação Pedro Coelho, regional director of the Portuguese Agency for the Environment/Administration of the Hydrographic Region (APA/ARH) of the Algarve.
The APA/ARH Algarve, the Câmara de Loulé, which currently owns the public usufruct rights of this road, and the GNR carried out a joint operation today aimed at reopening this section.
«Throughout yesterday, I met with various entities and this morning we went to the field to carry out the openings», revealed the same official.
The operation took place without any incident and «the security guards who were on the spot, when notified, did not show any resistance».
The security guards, as well as the fences, were already preventing access to this path a few days ago, in what was an apparent reaction by the landowner to the embargo on the installation of a vineyard in the middle of the Ria Formosa Natural Park, despite the negative opinion from the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry, as Sul Informação had already realized.
The trail in question is part of the Ecovia Litoral and was reclassified with public funds in 2015, under the Polis Litoral Ria Formosa.
At the time, a contract was signed with the previous owner of the land, granting Sociedade Polis – and as such, the public – the right to use the trail for the next 20 years.
With the extinction of the Polis Society, its legacy was handed over, in part, to the APA/ARH, except for «the works on public roads and urban space», as is the case of this and other sections of the Ecovia, which «passed to the counties".
In this way, the path was blocked by the current owner of the land «illegitimately».
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