Gastronomy and cinema join tourist routes Dénia

22 March 2013 - 00: 01

Celia Marín

A tour of the Municipal Mercat, another through the Lonja, visits to the historic center and the most representative neighborhoods and tasting of our most native products are the ingredients of the new tourist route that will begin to work in Dénia during this Holy Week under the name " Gastronomic Dénia ".

With some tourists "increasingly demanding and demanding more interactivity"The tourism department has prepared Dénia this new route will have two aspects: morning and evening.

In the morning you will visit the Mercat Municipal and the historic center, and in the evening, the fish market and the district of Baix la Mar. Both will end with three tastings of local products in different bars in the city, which will alternate to expand the supply . These visits will begin on Saturday March 23 and tndrán a price ranging between 10 and 12 euros with tasting included.

The councilor of the area, Pepa Font, explained that it has sought to complement the visitor's holiday offer with another new activity: the cinematographic route "A sea of cinema and pirates" that will show the city's cinematographic scenes together with two actors in a very participatory guided route for family audiences.

These two new routes add to the already existing offer of guided activities of the monumental historical Dénia such as the routes "Millennial Dénia", "Stories of the castle" and "Night of legends", which incorporates the use of torches as a novelty this season in the visit to the castle at night.

Pepa Font recalled that a total of 60 guided tours have been scheduled for the entire season that are preceded by the success of the thematic visits carried out during the fallas in which many foreigners participated.

Occupation of Fallas week

San José bridge left in Dénia greater occupancy was expected that -the 60% - which has hovered around 75%. While this figure is two points lower than the same bridge 2012 points from the tourism department positively value it because this year 18 on Monday was only party in Madrid, Murcia and vaenciana Community.

For Pepa Font also the proximity of Easter has had much to do with this data, ys expected to then data between the 80 and 85% due, among other initiatives, the campaign launched are achieved in Metro de Madrid.