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Panticosa has been a ski sanctuary for years. Now he wants to reconvert … with the most beastly slide in Europe

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Panticosa is a small town in the region of Alto Gállego, in Huesca, famous for its Pyrenean landscapes and the skiing station Panticosa-Los Lagos. Soon it will be for something else: a Huge slide of mountain almost three kilometers long, half a hundred sleds and a deep unevenness of more than 700 meters that will be unique in Europe. With him the Government of Aragon aspires to disseminate the tourism of the region now that the facilities dedicated to snow sports face a uncertain future. For now, the technical tabogán file impresses. A slide to dominate them all. If you like the slides go by reserving hole for Panticosa. The president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, put yesterday The first stone which aspires to become “Mountain slide with the greatest uneven in Europe.” At the moment we only have The photos of the presentation and some data of their technical file, but they serve to open appetite: the slide will measure almost three kilometers long and will cover an unevenness of more than 700 meters. According to the Regional Executivethere is no other installation of its kind with a larger slope. At least in Europe. Is there more data? Yeah. Diario del Alto Aragón Precise That the exact slope will be 707 my the slide will run along the hillside from the top of the telecabine to the lower one. The obstacles that are on the way will draw them with bridges and tunnels. The government has also specified that the sleds (with a capacity for an adult alone or with a child) will complete the almost three kilometers of travel in nine minutes. The maximum speed will be 40 km/h, a mark that will not be exceeded thanks to a brake system. “It is not invasive”. In total, the slide will have fifty sleds that, according to executive calculations, will allow transporting about 1,100 people every day. “The system takes advantage of the energy of the telecabine during the climb, since it works with the same exploitation of the skiing track. Then, the descent is done by gravity. Not requiring concrete foundation is not invasive for the environment,” Comment to Aragón News Ignacio Vicente, head of the project. The installation includes A warehouse and shape it will cost in total 7.7 million of euros. More than 90% (7.2 million) will leave the coffers of the Aragonese Executive and the rest of the Panticosa City Council. If the deadlines are fulfilled, the idea is that it is operational to late 2026. OBJECTIVE: Destationalize. With the new installation, Aragon has A clear objective: Diversify the offer that visitors are in Panticosa and that the region is less dependent on snow -linked tourism. “It is an example of an economic engine and the de -stationalization of tourism”, highlighted Azcon at the beginning of the works. “This slide can serve tourists for ten months a year and will be a central element in the de -stations of tourism that face ski stations.” The initiative is in fact framed in the Pyrenees Planas the Regional Executive recalls, among its objectives, it has among its objectives to “de -stationalize” tourism in the four regions of the Aragonese Pyrenees. The 7.2 million dedicated to Panticosa Tobogán are added to the 12 that have already been invested in the Valley of Tena in 2024 to install or replace 547 cannons for the production of snow in formigal-panticosa, “which meant an impulse in the capacity of innivation in the stations of this area”, claims The Azcón team. New life for the valleys. In 2023, al present the master lines Of the Pyrenees Plan in Panticosa, the Aragonese President explained that his goal is to “boost” the valleys of the northernmost region of the region, for which he already foresaw at that time an injection of more than 70 million. Among its initiatives, the Montanuy road and Panticosa’s slide, both projects designed among other things to enrich tourism in the area. It is no accident. Throughout the last years, ski stations (in Spain and other countries) have been seen in difficulties for the shortage of snow, which has condemned them to suffer “Lightning seasons” or directly to closing. Images | Aragon Government (X) In Xataka | Cantabria wants more visitors in the Cabárceno Park. So you will create a large alpine slide to travel at 40 km/h

Cantabria wants more visitors in the Cabárceno Park. So you will create a large alpine slide to travel at 40 km/h

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He Cabárceno Parkin Cantabria, he is famous for his animal reserves and having reached a curious World milestone: Become a reference in the captivity of African elephants. Now those responsible want the enclosure to be known for something else, a spectacular Alpine slide of 1.2 kilometers in which speeds of 40 km/h will be reached. At the moment we only have the plans Included in your technical report, but they are enough to open the appetite. What is your goal? That the park is more attractive and capture more visitors. Two words: Alpine Tobogán. He Cabárceno Parka half -way space between the traditional zoo and an enclosure to safaris nestled in the middle of Santander region, wants to become more attractive. And he wants to do it big, with a claim designed for the most adventurous: a Alpine slide. Also known as “Alpine Coaster”the alpine slides are neither more nor less than rail circuits designed so that visitors can slide through them aboard sled taking advantage of the slope of the mountains. In Andorra they have a very popular one: The Tobotroncwith a route of more than five kilometers. Trips at 40 km/h. The alpine slide that Cantabria wants to build may not reach the size of Tobotronc or The one of Hydersin Austria, where they have built another similar structure of almost three kilometers and a slope of 640 meters, but will be equally fascinating. According to He has revealed The autonomous government will measure 1.2 km (330 m of climb and 854 of descent) and those who rise to it can reach 40 km/h, although it will be the users themselves who regulate the march. 360 degree sleds and curls. They are not the only data that has transcended the project, promoted by the public company Cantur. The Cantabria Government has revealed that the infrastructure will have 25 sleds with capacity for two people who will save a level of 75 my will advance in a journey in Zigzag, with curves and two loopings of 360º. Nor is it necessary to imagine it. The Executive has published the Basic projectin which his future layout appears. Autumn of 2025? The project itself is not new. In October, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Region, Luis Martínez Abad, He already spoke of him in Parliament, where he broke out some characteristics of the future slide. As he said then, the investment to carry out the structure would reach 1.5 million euros and the idea was that it was already operational in the autumn of 2025. The Montañés newspaper reveals Now that in the technical document an investment of three million euros, VAT included. It also seems difficult for the structure to be ready before 2026. That does not mean that the initiative is stopped. On the contrary. Yeah It has been news These days it is because the Government of Cantabria has just released the construction project. During the next few days anyone interested in the project can consult in The web of the General Directorate of Urbanism the plans and calculations of the future slide and, in case it creates it necessary, to present allegations. Aerial view of the area where the “Alpine Coaster” will be installed. Objective: Diversify. In October, during his speech at the Plenary of Parliament, Martínez Abad He claimed That the future Alpine slide “is not a whim, but an opportunity.” Now the government insists on the same idea: its purpose is to reinforce the attractiveness of the park to visit more people throughout the year. “The objective of this infrastructure is reason the Minister of Tourism. In 2023 the enclosure received more than 650,000 visitors, but that figure actually hides two major challenges. The first is that most of those visits They concentrated During a very concrete time of the year, during Holy Week and the summer months. The second challenge is that the enclosure is difficult to awaken the interest of the youngest population. The idea, The Cantabrian Government emphasizesis to attract people between 14 and 24 years old, which “less interest shows” now in the park. Wink. The slide will be located in an area close to the northern entrance of Obregón, “in a field not used of the installation,” Clarifies the Regional Executivewhich remembers that when planning the layout, a part of the park away from the animals has been sought (in Cabárceno, zebras, camels or Elephantsamong many other species), with trees and an adequate slope. The technicians have also wanted to launch a wink to the mining past in the region. “The project is developed in a unique environment of the vicinity of the local good of the old facilities of the Cabárceno Hierra Mineso it contemplates integrating the necessary infrastructure into the landscape environment, using cut steel, treated wood or glass to offer an external appearance similar to mining facilities ” Clarify. Among other things, those who climb to the sleds may contemplate the mining vestiges of caul. Images | Cantabria government, Jeremy Thompson (Flickr) and Tuscasasrural (Flickr) In Xataka | In his fight not to be “the North Ibiza”, Cantabria has taken a radical measure: limiting tourism in iconic areas

Slide Marvel’s formula to break the MCU crisis

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Marvel has been trying to Reconfigure the MCU To show off the strength that viewers enjoyed in ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Endgame’. The study, owned by Walt Disney Company, has several bets on the way to achieve it. These include projects such as’Avengers: Doomsday‘ and ‘The fantastic 4: first steps‘. In the case of the first, The strategy goes through a kind of “Nostalgia Operation”designed to reconquer the most veteran fans with heroes who already lived their moment of glory. If we focus on the second, which is what concerns us in this article, the axis seems to revolve around recovering a classic and recognizable villain of comics. The threat of Galactus in ‘The Fantastic 4: First Steps’ “Four brave astronauts travel to space and return changed forever,” Pray the start of the trailer published Thursday. So, ‘The fantastic 4: first steps‘It presents us with the characters already in their stage of heroes, in an elegant retrofuturist atmosphere that, in principle, seems loaded with optimism, although things begin to twist quickly. Reed (Pedro Pascal), his wife Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), his younger brother Johnny (Joseph Quinn) and his friend Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) enjoy a relative peace and tranquility, especially after the news of the prompt arrival of Reed and Sue. However, a threat lands from space, challenging the entire planet without prior notice. Galactus, the consumer of worlds, now is sightd by planet Earth, and has sent to its herald, Silver Surfer (Julia Garner)to launch a warning. “Are we safe?” Asks a journalist at the fantastic 4, to which Reed responds with a tense “I don’t know”, although later he does not hesitate to tell the planet that they will do their best to protect it. Galactus’s threat seems large enough for heroes to doubt their ability to stop it and, probably, end up trapped in their destruction spiral. Above all this falls a special pressure on Reed, which drags some guilt for having forced the limits of space and, perhaps, having caused the arrival of the threat. Before their official arrival at theaters, the fantastic four starred in a first film produced in 1994 that never reached. More than a decade later, the group finally landed on the big screen with The 2005 version directed by Tim Storywith Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffud and Michael Chiklis in front. Although he did not conquer critics, he worked well at the box office and gave rise to a sequel in 2007. The story returned to theaters in 2015 with a new cast: Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell. This time, neither the critical reception nor the collection accompanied. Now, all eyes are put in the new installment, which promises to recover the lost pulse. Its premiere in Spanish cinemas is scheduled for July 25. Images | The Walt Disney Company In Xataka | ‘A Minecraft movie’ is becoming such a large phenomenon that is causing disturbances in cinemas

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