Gastronomy has undoubtedly been the great cultural and tourist bet in Dénia for 2013, which aims to achieve the designation of Gastronomical UNESCO City in coming years.
Gastronomy
The farewell today was a year that began with the second edition of International competition Creative Cuisine Red Gamba de Dénia. The restaurant Quinoa, of Tarragona, won the first prize, leaving in second place the Hotel Los Angeles of Dénia with the recipe Dénia shrimp treated as tartar, caviar olive oil, alga, spicy notes and emulsion in juice.
The second edition of this competition was held again at the Mercat Municipal with a large influx of people and coming chefs from around the country, consolidating the contest as one of the most reliable brand Dénia bets for the coming years.
And if prawns began the year ended with Arroz a Banda. 30 years when they met the first International Band Competition rice Ciutat de Dénia, the department of tourism and hotel industry decided to take forward the Fòrum Dénia: Arròs a Banda & a banda del arròs. A day of reflection on our cuisine that, who knows, maybe it's a new opportunity to turn the contest during 24 edition was held at the CDT Denia.
And while the food, this year we boasted not only a restaurant three Michelin stars, but also count on our city 26 one of the best restaurants in the world according to the gastronomic magazine Restaurant which is also created Doctor Honoris Causa by the University Miguel Hernández de Elche. Quique Dacosta raises the name of Denia and its gastronomy to the top again.
Precisely Quique Dacosta was one of the novelties of the summer courses at UNED, Which this year incorporated a course on red shrimp with 26 own creations on the gamba, one for each year of experience in the kitchen. Summer courses at UNED again became a benchmark of July in Dénia.
Events
2013 has also been a year of anniversary: on the one hand, 20 anniversary of the death of the great poet Vicent Andrés Estellés, which was honored by different groups both on their street and around the city reading their poetry.
Furthermore, the collective cultural Dianium Dansa has fulfilled 25 years in favor of the culture and recovery of the dansà de Dénia. And speaking of traditions, we cannot pass up the work that is being done of Jesus Poor for the statement Scheldt Pansa as Intangible Cultural Asset of ValenciaAnd it seems that soon will come.
And if it was the year 2012 400 years as the city of Denia, 2013 has been the year of the beginning of celebrations Taifa millennium, which began with an institutional act and a great agape in the castle of Dénia, which has broken a record of visits this year, celebrating an event that will last until 2015.
comebacks
This year has stood out in culture for being the one of the around the Flexio Verbale to the Plaza Mariana Pineda after last year failed to produce an agreement with the hoteliers of the square for celebration.
John Cabrera
Undoubtedly one of the names of 2013 in the cultural section has been the filmmaker John Cabrera. He started the year being recognized by the School of Regional Theater at the World Theater Day; He exhibited his work in Municipal House of Culture and ended the year being the first person to receive the Medal of the City of Dénia for his task in favor of the city in gray times.
Mountains
And we can not forget the mountains in our review of cultural life in Dénia for 2013. Surrounded by controversy, Dénia joined the Alliance Mountains UNESCO after trips to Rome, Turkey and Barcelona to achieve it.
El Mountain Day it was celebrated with an institutional act in which the participation of the citizens and of some mediambiental political representative was lacking, that yes they did it in the traditional one already raised to the creueta and in some of the acts prepared for this celebration.
2013 goodbye in Dénia with culture seething, betting tirelessly because the city is more than sun and beach and we recognized beyond our borders, either on the mountain or by the food ... What you stay you ?
