Last piece of the coast goes under concrete largest tourist complexe in Europe to be built at Cabo Cope.

A 21-million-square-metre area of land – which includes small rocky coves backed onto by farmers’ fields – is to be completely transformed.
The fate of one of the largest remaining areas of virgin coastline on the Spanish Mediterranean was sealed last week when councillors at Lorca and Águilas town halls voted in the initial modifications to their town plans in order to allow one of the biggest tourist complexes in Europe to be built at Cabo Cope.A total of 11,000 properties, 22,000 hotel places, five golf courses, 10 commercial zones, a theme park, a hypermarket, a casino and a marina for 2,000 boats are to be built in the area which falls in the municipalities of Lorca and Águilas.The giant Marina de Cope complex will have capacity to accommodate 58,000 people.It is being promoted by the Murcia regional government and part-bankrolled by energy giant Iberdrola with an investment of 200 million euros.IU councillor José García Murcia labelled the plan ‘environmental terrorism’. He said: “This is an absolute calamity. One of the last virgin areas of our coast is going to be ruined and we are going to lose irreplaceable natural heritage.”