Intense weekend is coming in Denia. The celebration of the At the festival Gastronomic Dénia will attract thousands of visitors to our city from all corners, as well as many professionals interested in this gastronomic event, the largest ever held in the Region of Valencia.
Among all the visits that Dénia will receive these days, it is worth mentioning the 16 Creative Cities of UNESCO Gastronomy that are currently: Florianòpolis and Belém (Brazil), Jeonju (Korea), Rasht (Iran), Östersund Tsuruoka (Japan), Bergen (Norway), Parma (Italy), Popayan (Colombia), Tucson (USA), Chengdu and Shunde (China), whose representatives will be with us from Friday, 29 in September, until Monday 2 October. In total, 45 people among institutional representatives, municipal technicians and 12 cooks will be part of this expedition.
For them, the Dianense Creativity Office has prepared an intense program of activities that will allow them to get to know the region of the Marina Alta as a gastronomic destination and work together on the UNESCO creative cities network strategy.
Schedule of the meeting
As explained by the councilor delegate of the project City Creative Gastronomy, Pepa Font, the meeting will begin with the reception to the participants in the CDT of Denia on Friday morning. There Evarist Miralles and Vicent Simó will coordinate the showcookings of chefs Federico Guajardo, Fernando González, Cristóbal González and Miguel Frutos. Then they will eat at the CDT facilities and in the afternoon they will visit the fish market and enjoy a tasting of horchata at the La Jijonenca ice cream parlor.
El Saturday, 30 of September, the day will begin with a catamaran excursion along the coast of Denia and then visit the D * NA Gastronomic Festival in the Marineta Cassiana. In the evening they have been offered the opportunity to watch the sunset and dine at El Portet.
El Sunday October 1 You will visit the Riurau de Jesús Pobre. Then they will eat at the La Sella hotel restaurant and in the afternoon they will hold a work meeting. The day will end with a dinner at the restaurant Agua de Mar de Marina de Denia.
El Monday the 2 will be the last day of this international meeting, and will focus on visits to emblematic places in the region such as Llíber, where you will see the handmade elaboration of the raisin; Xaló and its wineries or Pego and La Marjal, where they will also be received by the Pegolino Town Hall in an official way.
Important international projection of Denia and the region
This meeting is part of the annual program of meetings of the UNESCO Network of Creative Cities of Gastronomy. The objective is to continue consolidating, through the technical sessions, the network worldwide. In addition, on this occasion Dénia faces a major challenge: to participate in the evaluation of 18 cities aspiring to be Creative Cities of Gastronomy, as explained the department's technician, Floren Terrades.
For Pepa Font and Vicent Grimalt, this meeting is fundamental for the rest of cities to know the gastronomic infrastructures with which Dénia counts, as well as its business fabric, in order to establish new ways of collaboration between the different cities.
The mayor and councilor of tourism stressed the importance of the worldwide projection that Dénia is acquiring thanks to this project, a sample of the work being done from the innovation office. He was also satisfied with the great response of all the creative cities, who have accepted the invitation of Dénia, as well as the important support that the local and regional entrepreneurs have been receiving from the town hall, which has mostly turned in this draft.
