The Provincial Council of Soria distributes 2.5 million among 175 municipal works

The Provincial Council of Soria has approved the distribution of the 2026 Territorial Cohesion Fund, which will finance 175 works in municipalities of the province for a total amount of 2,566,002.88 euros. The agreement was adopted by the Governing Board in an ordinary session on October 19, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Soria no. 122, dated October 23, 2026, with the official reference BOPSO-122-23102026.

The announcement, issued by the Local Cooperation Service of the provincial institution, details each action by municipality, the name of the work, and the breakdown of funding in three columns: regional, municipal, and Provincial Council contributions. The document occupies pages 3667 to 3675 of the gazette and was signed in Soria on October 19, 2026, by the 1st Vice President, Mª José Jiménez Las Heras.

The fund is primarily fed by the regional contribution: 1,156,639.53 euros, 45.1% of the total, compared to 831,043.94 euros provided by the town councils (32.4%) and 578,319.41 euros from the Provincial Council (22.5%). In a large part of the files, the provincial institution matches the municipal amount, so the usual scheme remains around 50% regional, 25% municipal, and 25% provincial. Other announcements in the same gazette identify the municipal works affected by this fund as actions of the Junta de Castilla y León.

The highest-value actions

The bulk of the budget is concentrated in a handful of significant projects, while the rest is distributed among small-scale interventions:

• Berlanga de Duero: acquisition of properties for parking, 51,725.52 euros.
• Vinuesa: rehabilitation of the La Parada civic center, 48,000 euros.
• Navaleno: nanofiltration equipment for color reduction in the W.T.P., 45,000 euros.
• Medinaceli: renovation of the children’s playground of Medinaceli-Estación, 44,884.89 euros.
• Los Rábanos: replacement of the children’s playground, 39,087.79 euros.
• Langa de Duero: conditioning of the multi-purpose building, 38,644.82 euros.
• San Pedro Manrique: repair and commissioning of the W.W.T.P., 35,000 euros.
• Almarza: energy improvement with photovoltaics in a municipal building, 32,910.24 euros.
• Garray: road safety of the N-111 crossing, 30,300 euros.
• Quintana Redonda: repair of roads deteriorated by adverse weather conditions, 30,000 euros.

Water, roads, and municipal buildings

The typology of the works reveals the priorities of the distribution. The water cycle is the most repeated axis: intakes and springs, replacement of networks and valves, water softeners and chlorination equipment, tanks, and sanitation. Paving of streets and squares, conditioning of rural roads, and repair of retaining walls also appear.

In the municipal buildings chapter, interventions on town halls, multi-purpose halls, social centers, and warehouses are abundant: roofs, facades, carpentry, restrooms, and interior renovations. Added to this are energy efficiency actions and the replacement of public lighting with LED technology, as well as the acquisition of equipment and machinery, ranging from firefighting equipment to sweepers, mini-excavators, and brush cutters.

Small municipalities and low-cost works

The distribution reaches towns with very small populations and some files are for minimum amounts, confirming the local nature of the fund:

• San Felices: acquisition of a gasoline chainsaw, 649.28 euros.
• Deza: curtains for the social center, 1,147.08 euros.
• Deza: replacement of informative vinyl in the urban center, 1,597.20 euros.
• Taroda: repairs to municipal infrastructure (scale), 1,925.37 euros.
• San Felices: acquisition of a plot of land adjacent to the multi-purpose center, 2,700 euros.

Several town councils group up to three files in the same list, such as Deza, Taroda, Matamala de Almazán, San Felices, and Garray, while others split their allocation into two actions, as in the case of Arévalo de la Sierra or Castilruiz.

The distribution sets the exact amount that each council must allocate in its budgets to be able to execute the work, a decisive piece of data for the coffers of municipalities with limited resources. For local construction companies and material suppliers, it also represents a portfolio of work distributed across the provincial geography and staggered in very diverse amounts, from renovations of a few hundred euros to projects of more than 50,000.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Soria, no. 122, of October 23, 2026, section II. Local Administration, pp. 3667-3675 (official reference: BOPSO-122-23102026).