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If you’re going to park in Rota, you can use the Apparkya app to pay for your stay in Rota’s regulated parking zones.

Rota joins the 8 cities in Spain — Seville, Morón, Chiclana or Calahorra among others — where you can use Apparkya, either to pay for on-street parking (the parking meter) or to access APPARKYA car parks via the Apparkya Automatic Barrier Opening service.

If your city is one of the 149 in Spain with more than 50,000 inhabitants, from 1 January 2023 it will be among those affected by the Low-Emission Zone (ZBE). According to the Climate Change and Energy Transition Law of May 2021, all cities that meet this requirement will have to implement such a zone. According to Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE), this will affect 25 million Spaniards — 53% of the country’s population.

The Low-Emission Zone aims to establish areas where vehicle traffic is reduced, with the main goal of cutting pollution. According to the WHO, nine out of ten people breathe polluted air.