The new Pelhe and Sinçães Norte parks represent a total area of 10 hectares, an overall investment of around 5 million euros and will begin to be built by the beginning of August. 

The public presentation of the new spaces took place last Wednesday, 21 May. 

The mayor, Mário Passos, spoke of ‘two very ambitious projects that will create a new centrality and that will extend the city to the north and south, interconnecting and complementing other urban green spaces such as Devesa and Sinçães’.  

The future Sinçães North Park, in Gavião, is an extension of the current Sinçães Park. The intervention, with a total area of almost 2.2 hectares, includes the recovery and re-naturalisation of the sub-basin of the existing stream and includes the construction of green space, pedestrian axes, platforms and crossings, the construction and reconstruction of all public infrastructure networks, the restructuring of the road to the east, the restructuring and re-profiling of the bed and banks of the stream, among other works.

The work represents an investment of 1.8 million euros and the aim of the intervention is to naturalise the existing stream on the site, connect it to the S. Vicente neighbourhood and the new urban area, extending the current Sinçães Park to the courthouse area, in a markedly flowery space with more than 500 new trees. ‘We want it to be above all a space for enjoyment and contemplation,’ adds the mayor.

The Pelhe Park, in Lugar dos Queimados, in the União de Freguesias de Famalicão e Calendário (Famalicão and Calendário Parish Union), with around 8 hectares, will also be a place of leisure, but it will be a markedly recreational and sporting space, with various structures designed for physical activity, such as beach volleyball and basketball courts, skate park, abseiling, mini-golf, petanque and knitting, created in a corridor along the River Pelhe and in communion with a large green area with more than 5,000 trees and shrubs that will occupy a large part of the space. The contract has already been awarded for 2.9 million euros.
 
‘These are two parks that will rehabilitate the public space, boost and enhance the urban regeneration of these areas of the city and add two more green lungs to the city and more quality of life,’ added the mayor.