Sebastiàn Mateo Hernàndez has looked back on the last four decades of San Pedro del Pinatar.
“Long and good memories, of San Pedro del Pinatar that I visited for the first time in 1980.
My first trip to the town was with my father, that I got to know little by little while my father did his work in the cinema of Comino.
It was a town that we visited to buy from its hardware stores, its salted fish stores or fishmongers, because in the neighbouring towns there was no shops as extensive as those in San Pedro del Pinatar.
A town that was a pleasure to come to and see its clean streets, its youthful atmosphere, the diverse life that existed in its streets, its festivals, its people, was Lo Pagán.
A Lo Pagán that has put the name of San Pedro del Pinatar at the National level in terms of tourism, for its diversity in the leisure environment, for its saline waters that do so much good for some ailments and that have been recommended by health specialists.
For their mud, which have served to reduce pain for countless people, who use them as a natural method, those mills that cause so much longing to see them now so unprotected.
Where is that San Pedro del Pinatar, that so many people fell in love with?
Why have we lost those emblematic buildings?
Why have we continued to lose the essence and identity of a people?
Is it possible to recover that San Pedro del Pinatar?
Unfortunately, there are things that can never be recovered, but we still have time to recover that unique essence of San Pedro del Pinatar.
We are still in time to offer our town to the world, to the entrepreneurs, so that they find it attractive to come and set up their companies, to tourism so that they can put San Pedro del Pinatar back as a tourist reference, due to its diversity of tourist offer beach, commercial, cultural, leisure, gastronomy, all in a healthy and safe environment.
We still have time to recover the town that I fell in love with and that thousands of people fell in love with.
This is not about political overtones, right, left or centre. This is about ‘Love Your People’. It is still possible. The Alternative, without stories and without fear. Up to you.”
