The regional secretary of Turisme, Cristina Moreno, present yesterday at the Dénia Red Prawn Creatine International Cooking Contest, highlighted the support and support that Turisme Comunitat Valenciana will offer to Dénia in 2024 to reinforce the value of gastronomy as a unique and differentiating attribute of this destination on the Costa Blanca, distinguished as a Creative City of Gastronomy by UNESCO.
In this sense, Moreno announced that Turisme CV will sign an agreement with the Dénia City Council this year for an amount of 250.000 euros to support a new edition of the D * na Festival, one of the most important events in all of Spanish gastronomy.
Furthermore, he announced that the Generalitat will allocate "another 50.000 euros to continue positioning the municipality as a focus for training and research in gastronomy, as well as the headquarters of the Gasterra university project."
Regarding the contest, for the vice president of Turisme, "that it can be done year after year and with a participation as high as this edition, with more than 60 participants from all over the world, demonstrates its great importance at the national gastronomic level." .
Likewise, he pointed out that "this unmissable event in the culinary sector represents a new opportunity to continue projecting the importance of the gastronomy of the Marina Alta and of the Valencian Community as a sign of identity and engine of progress.
"With initiatives like this we help position the destination of Dénia and the gastronomic brand of the Valencian Community, L'Exquisit Mediterrani, as references of gastronomy at the national level," added Moreno.
The regional secretary also highlighted that students from the CdT of Dénia and Evarist Miralles, a trainer at the center itself and chef at the Alicante restaurant El Nou Cavall Verd, as well as a finalist in the Bocuse d'or 2012, had also collaborated in the contest.
Finally, Moreno congratulated the winners "for taking on the challenge of wrapping with taste and originality an exquisite gourmet product like red shrimp"; and thanked all the agents involved for the effort to "materialize a project that places Dénia as a first-rate gastronomic destination."
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