The seventies were for AMPANS a great expansion period full of strong campaigns to collect funds: attract prize draws, organize movie sessions, … They initiated a paradigmatic bottle and paper recollection campaign in 1971, as well as a Three Kings festival, just to name a few.
For AMPANS, the 28th of May 1973 is a memorial date. Mister Julio Payàs, owner of the Santa Maria de Comabella country house, handed over the land where nowadays a great part of the AMPANS institutions are located. Thanks to this, AMPANS with already 80 members, made a significant step forward.
The same year, the idea came up to organize a meeting in order to increase society’s awareness of the efforts made by AMPANS to help mentally disabled persons as well as to collect funds for the pending building works at Comabella. That meeting gave birth to Sol d’Amor (Sun of Love), the biggest campaign ever organized by the entity at Comabella and successfully concluded with a two-days-meeting on the 18th and 19th of October 1975 due to the participation of approximately 30000 persons. A lot of people still remember the “Sol d’Amor” as a great event that would enable the final relocation of the installations at Comabella in the year 1976.
