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First Flight to Gran Scala (well to Lérida anyway)

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On the 3rd of June a British plane tested the new airport in Lérida, which the promoters of Gran Scala, the ILD, are hoping to use as a hub to bring in the many tourists to fill the mega project. It s...

The Guardian Newspaper picks up the scent

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It seems the news is traveling. Now that the Gran Scala project has a little more meat on it's bones, the UK press has even picked up on it. The left leaning Guardian newspaper ran a piece on the 26th...

Gran Scala lifts off...

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Amazingly it seems that the first steps to buying the land required to establish Gran Scala in Ontiñena (Aragon) have been taken. International Leaisure Development (ILD), the group behind the project...

Betting on the 10th of February

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The date is set. On the 10th of February the first land purchase options will be bought by ILD. Bet you something delays it......

Gran Scala still popular with the people

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It seems that the Chamber of Commerce of Zaragoza has done a survey about the Gran Scala mega-project and one of the main things to come out of it was that the 86 percent of the people in the region w...

another year to wait

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Gran Scala works will not start for another year. The ILD promoters have said that building will begin in 2009, probably in the 3rd quarter. So in the period of one year they have already gone over...

Ontiñena Town Hall says Gran Scala construction will start in 2009

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The town currently considered the destination for this grand project, Ontiñena, believes that the land sale will go through and work will start on the building of Casinos and hotels in the coming year...

The anti Gran Scala movement - Stop Gran Scala

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Not surprisingly a group has been formed to attempt to put an end to the dreams of the ILD with the logical name of "Stop Gran Scala", and the 12th of December set as the date for a wave of protests. ...

If you were doing a mega-project, what would you put there?

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Okay, so let's step outside the question of sustainability and environmental impact and think about the project in itself - if you were going to do something as crazy sounding as Gran Scala - what wou...

EU declares itself worried about Gran Scala mega-project

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Alejo Vidal Quadras, vice president of the European Parliament, declared that the EU was worried about the plan for building a mega-complex in the heart of the Aragonese dessert, as planned with Gran ...

Gran Scala to crash and burn?

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The Zaragoza Expo is drawing to a close and Gran Scala is yet to finalise a deal to buy the 2,000 hectares required for the plan to go ahead. The international development consortium had anounnced ...