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(c) OTHERS PROGRAMS

The council tries to involve the owners of businesses in the historical part of the city in the restoration of everything within it, inviting them to substitute posters and nameplates more in keeping with the ambience of the zone; in renovations, to use materials authorised by the Institute of Renovation, to give homogeneity; to use wood, Arab tiles, traditional locks; to get rid of antennae, air-conditioners, and ugly signs.

There are two other European programmes which provide money. The Locally Operated Programme (POL), and the Urban Plan.

• The POL has finances of 900 millions de pesetas (5.409.109 Euros) for various activities around the river Darro; the rehabilitation of the Palace of the Cordovas, the renovation of its gardens, and a new treatment for the space between the bridge of the Chirimías and the fountain of the Avellanos, where the work is done in very close cooperation with the Association of the Alhambra.
  
  
• The urban plan has more than 2.500 millions pesetas (15.325.303 Euros) for the improvement of the urban environment, and economic development and social integration in areas where the population is decreasing.

With funds from the urban plan of the European Union, a project to decrease ¨visual contamination¨ has been undertaken (ninety per cent of buildings in the historical part of the city have a strong, and bad, visual impact) with means to avoid the installation of new elements which disturb the landscape and the suppression of all types of illuminations and posters. To encourage this, there is help and advice available for the embellishment of facades and commercial establishments.

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