Dénia is on its way to the recognition by UNESCO of the Creative City of Gastronomy, and has prepared a 'main course' for these fallas parties. On Monday 16 in March, representatives of the city-district of Shundé (China) and the Colombian Popayán will arrive in the city, both recognized by UNESCO as such.
Monday at 11 am the representative of Shunde in Creative Cities Network, Fang Li, will be received at City Hall by the mayor and the president of Aehtma, Cristina Sellés. Following the first meeting between the representative of the Chinese city and dianenses technicians will be held. In the 12.45 hours it has scheduled a visit to the CdT Dénia, led by its director, Pepe Vidal, which was also attended by the director of the branch of Vocational Training IES Maria Ibars.
Day 17, the representative of Shunde will have opportunity to participate in a guided tour in English by the different Fallas districts of the city, you know the Mercat Municipal and attend the arrival of the boats to port and subsequent fish auction at the fish market .
The day of 18 start with a technical meeting at the main office of Tourism which will be held jointly proposed an assessment of the candidacy of Dénia. Also they materialize collaborative projects related to tourism and traditional of each of the cities culinary values.
The 18 will arrive in Dénia the representatives of the city of Popayán, Álvaro Garzón and Milagros del Corral, who will be offered a welcome lunch in the Hotel Los Angeles with the assistance of the presidents of Aehtma, Cristina Sellés and the Cercle Empresarial de la Marina Alta (Cedma), Sonja DietzAnd associate director of the center of the UNED in Dénia, Raquel Martí.
In the afternoon a new meeting between representatives of Popayan and Shunde and technical Dianense project will be held. The official program of the day ends with the assistance concert bands at the track.
The day of 19 start with a boat trip along the coast Dianense, will attend the offering of flowers to the noctura mascletà in Plaza Jaume I and the cream of the failures.
Once completed the festivities in Dénia, representatives of creative cities will travel to Benidorm to visit the Valencian Institute of Tourism Technologies (Invat.tur), and end your stay in Denia 21 March day.
Contacts with cities in the world that have been honored in the same category are fundamental in endorsing the candidacy of Dénia. Three other cities of the Network, Ostersund (Sweden), Tsuruoka (Japan) and Zahle (Lebanon), have expressed their willingness to collaborate with Dénia but can not travel to the city at this time.
The call for Unesco will be published later this month. Thereafter, the bid committee of Dénia have three months to submit its proposal to the international body under UN.
