In order to promote sport among citizens to reduce sedentary lifestyles and show the benefits of sport, the Department of Sports of the Dénia City Council has designed six bio-healthy routes through which to claim that sport is an essential element in health and should be part of medical treatments.
The routes of the "De Caminata" program, part of the "sports recipe" that is intended to be promoted from the consistory, have been reviewed by professional personnel from the world of nursing and medicine from municipal health centers. The routes are of low difficulty, varying in distance from 1 kilometer to 5.
The six routes are as follows:
- Via Verda (5,2 kilometres)
- Sports center (2,3 kilometers)
- Parks (4,1 kilometers)
- back to castle (1,1 kilometers)
- By the port (1,2 kilometers)
- Marineta Casiana (2 kilometers)
All this information will be available in the 3.000 brochures that will be printed in both Spanish and Valencian. They will be distributed by primary care medical personnel in consultations and health centers.
A "Sports Recipe"
Dénia undertakes the "De Caminata" project with the aim of establishing a "sports recipe" to promote physical activity among a population in which the time spent on screens, inactivity and unhealthy habits have increased since confinement during the Covid-19 health crisis, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
As a result of this reality, sports programs have been developed that challenge, above all, the most vulnerable population, creating affordable and dynamic routes with them in mind. The council wants to convey the idea that sport helps strengthen the immune system, being essential in the prevention of ailments, but also in its treatment, for which they want to combine sport and health in the treatments.
Within this plan called "Sports Recipe" prescription programs for physical activity and supervised physical exercise are contemplated, as well as community sports activities for the population. All this supervised from primary and hospital care. In addition, they want to promote mandatory medical check-ups for those people who practice official competition sports, paying special attention to the school population.
Brochure of bio-healthy routes through Dénia (Spanish).
Brochure of bio-healthy routes through Dénia (Valencian).
