The Huracán Puerto Sagunto triathlon school is organising the I Triatlón Pantalán this Sunday 19 July, from 8:30am — a regional relay championship for around 104 school-age athletes.
The town of Quartell, in the Camp de Morvedre district near Sagunto, is celebrating its biggest festival week until next weekend, with street bull runs, correfocs (fire runs), open-air dances and religious ceremonies honouring its patron saints.
The Valencian regional government (Generalitat) will file formal objections alongside Aragón against the single-track plan for the Teruel-Sagunto rail section, a route key to Sagunto's rail links and the Port of Valencia.
The travelling food-and-leisure market Solmarket has moved this summer to Puçol -close to Sagunto, in the neighbouring l'Horta Nord district- after being turned away by El Puig over residents' complaints about noise and traffic.
The town council of Estivella, a municipality in the Camp de Morvedre district near Sagunto, has bought the historic Hort de la Senyoreta building and surrounding land for €475,000 to turn it into public heritage.
Sagunto is strengthening security, Puntos Violeta (anti-harassment support points) and medical coverage for this summer's patron saint festivals in Sagunto and Puerto de Sagunto, says councillor Patricia Sánchez.
The Compromís per Sagunt group is calling for the resignation of councillor Jorge Vidal, in charge of the municipal company SAG, over what it calls inefficient management of urban waste in Sagunto.
Today, 17 July, marks World Emoji Day, and a local opinion column imagines which emojis would best represent Sagunto: the Roman Theatre, the Alt Forn (blast furnace), Almardà beach, and even the traffic jams on the avenue.
Spain's Transport Ministry has decided the Teruel-Sagunto rail section will keep a single conventional track instead of the electrified double track Aragón requested, limiting freight capacity toward the Port of Valencia via Sagunto.
