Foundation of the Sierra Greenway

The Foundation of the Sierra Greenway was set up in early 2000 as the managing body of the railway line Jerez-Almargen, converted by the Ministry of the Environment into a Greenway. It’s constituted by the Provincial Councils of Cadiz and Seville and the Town Councils of Coripe, El Coronil, Montellano, Olvera, Pruna and Puerto Serrano; and it’s currently chaired by Juan Manuel Rodríguez Domínguez.

The Foundation key objective is to conserve, maintain and manage the use of the Sierra Greenway, in accordance with the fundamental aims of the Green Tissue Programme:

• Maintain the public domain, management, maintenance, conservation and promotion of the Sierra Greenway.
• Stop their deterioration once their functional uses have been abandoned.
• Promote alternative activities: cultural, educational and training, recreational, environmental and sports.
• Promote sustainable rural development and economic activities and job creation, stabilizing the population in their place of origin.
• Incorporate disused infrastructures into social facilities.
• Collaborate by signing agreements, contracts or collaboration agreements with other public and / or private entities interested in the Sierra Greenway both at the local, provincial, regional, national and international levels for the fulfillment of the purposes of the Foundation.
• Favor the configuration of the Sierra Greenway as a sustainable, accessible and inclusive mobility itinerary for all people, also promoting economic development and job creation as well as promoting all tourist, cultural, gastronomic, sports and leisure products and environmental education of their surroundings.
• Promote and collaborate with other entities for the expansion and extension of the Sierra Greenway through the recovery of the route of the old Jerez-Almargen railway that is in disuse.
• And other purposes analogous to the previous ones.