The Kings made a compliment to the “stand” of Cadiz

“What a beautiful thing!” These words were spoken by King Juan Carlos when he saw the stand of Cadiz in Fitur Faire. 8,000 journalists came to the exposition centre in Madrid to be present in the opening of the Tourism International Fair, the most important event in this sector on the national scale. The atmosphere was on top when the kings arrived, followed by numerous bodyguards and hundreds of curious people –press, politicians and several professionals-. The kings’ stop at the stand of Cadiz lasted almost three minutes. Three intense minutes, which, for those who know the promotion, were gold worth. And this is exactly what Fitur stands for: advertising and sales.

The City Council of Cadiz presents the 2006 Carnival in Madrid.

The City Council of Cadiz presents the 2006 Carnival in the Cultural Centre “Conde Duque” of Madrid. The event will be managed by radio presenter Juan Ochoa, who received the “Cádiz de promoción turística 2005” award.
The planning of the 2006 Carnival presentation includes Julio Pardo choir performance “Por los bloques”, which won first prize in choir category in the Official Award of 2005 Carnival Groups (COAC), just as the type of song “Chirigota” of “los que salimos agusto” group which obtained the first place of its category.
Carnival 2006 will start in city with “Ostionada” celebration (on 22nd of January) and “Erizada” celebration (on 29th of January), two gastronomy dates which the city liven up and after them, it celebrates the Official Award of Carnival Groups, the next 30th of January. More than 120 adults groups and 23 teenagers groups have registered in it.

Songs from the south cycle in Cadiz

The “Canciones desde el Sur” (Songs from the south) cycle, which expects being complete sample of songs of author type which is made in Cadiz and Andalusia, started last Saturday in the Central Lechera Room of the Capital. The cycle is organized by the Culture Delegation of the Town Council. Nacho Dueñas, a Cadiz singer from Cadiz, and Jose Antonio Delgado, singer from Malaga, opened this event with their concerts.
The concerts will continue the next 18th of March (they will be a total of three nights), with the actuation of Fernando Lobo, singer from Cadiz and Zahara, singer from Jaen. The concerts will take end on 12nd of May, day when Sergio Carrillo and Pedro Sosa will sing. Exactly, the special thing this celebration pointed out is the union in each concert of a singer from Cadiz, and a singer from other province of Andalusia, to manage to offer a wide vision of this sort of music.

The port, part of the Andalusian Sailing Federation.

The annual celebration of the Andalusia Federation of Sailing awarded the best ones of 2005, with the presence of outstanding persons in Osborne Wine Cellar.

The wine cellar of “mora of Osborne”, in the Port, was the place chosen to celebrate the Annual Gala of the Andalusian Sailing Federation last Saturday night. It was an authentic party of region sailing which collected a numerous persons, and celebrate an acknowledgement of the best of last season and it lasted until the morning with a cocktail.

Cadiz as one of the referents of contemporary art.

It is a brave wager to situate Cadiz as a contemporary art referent.
The association “Monteenmedio Contemopary Art” starts this summer a group of works to enlarge and improve and it will take end in 2010.
The objective of the foundation is to become into a meeting point of the entire citizen.
The project will have 3 fields of actuation under the direction of Architect Alberto Campo. In one hand, there is the enlargement of the infrastructure and the creation of three new rooms of temporal expositions, a library, artist workshop, a service area and an auditorium.
A second field is to increase the art collection of the association.

Tangos prior to the carnival in Cadiz.

Gastronomy. After sweet “pestiños”, come molluscs. Central Square received the visit of a thousand persons who come to the 20th anniversary of the “Ostionada” and listen to the choir singing tangos.

The province of Cadiz will have three new golf courses.

The facilities to play golf in Cadiz will raise until 22 from the current 19 during this year. New facilities are distributed in an equitable way in the whole region: Villanueva Golf Resort property of the Vinci hotel group in Puerto Real, Arcos Gardens, the first building of this kind for the mountains in Arcos, Alcaidesa Links Golf Course which includes a club house to practice this sport in La Línea de la Concepcion. This 22 touristy facilities with the three golf courses have been promoted until next weekend in Germany. The County Council of Tourism advertises it in the CMT fair of Stuttgart, together with the rest of Cadiz global offer. This event is famous thanks to the buyers with a high social position, medium age, golf lovers interested in knowing new places to practice it.

Cadiz in the CMT of Stuttgart

Patronato de Turismo (Tourism Office) promotes golf sector to high purchasing power of german customer in the framework of the CMT of Stuttgart, which will start today and will take end on Sunday 22 of January.
The promoting organization will show its offer in the Turespaña display stand during this fair. The public who assists to this event are people who most of them are of high social level buyers and old people, well known of golf and very interested in knowing new golf courses to practise golf . It is the most profitable tourist to the province which offers a high quality tourism.

The alternative to the seasonal tourism of Cadiz are centres of Talasotherapy (spa centres)

Today is the beginning of the election process in the Provincial Association of Hotels, after that Félix Morión (Jerez, 1947) –president of the entity until now - has announced his resignation some days ago. The dedication that is required for that job has been the reason for his decision, explained Morión his resignation. His seven years as the most responsible person and the fifteen years in total he has served the entity put him in the special position to interpret the perspectives of the tourism in Cadiz.

Is golf an alternative to the seasonal tourism?

It helps a lot, but it is no alternative. The alternative could be the creation of Talasotherapy-centres (Spas with seawater), which don’t closed in winter. But until this is not established, there cannot even be specified the grounds. We already have the raw material (the sea). The Costa de la Luz has to be renamed as Costa de la Salud (Health Coast).

Healthy Environment in Cadiz

The FAMP (Municipalities and Provinces Federation of Andalusia) presents in Cadiz the Project “Healthy environment: the cities of XXI century”
Ana María Quintero, Consumer Council, accompanied by Teresa Muela, technique secretary’s office of the Healthy Cities Web of Andalusia presented in the Palace of the province the Project “Healthy Environment: the Cities of XXI century” to the delegated councils and Healthy and Consumer technicians. The Federation of municipalities and provinces of Andalusia will develop this project during next 12 months.

Government meeting and provincial celebrations will celebrate in Algeciras on 28th February.

Gaspar Zarrías, councillor of Presidency of Andalusia Assembly, opened the commemorating acts because of the centenary of the Conference of Algeciras and the Port Work Assembly today. It is the reason why the city will receive the Government Meeting during all 2006 and the provincial acts of the Andalusia Day on 28th February.

Algeciras preserves valuable pieces of the 1906 Conference

The hundredth anniversary will be inaugurated in February with an historic congress which will mobilize experts, graduates and citizens.

Algeciras. Although it was almost one century openly –in the plenary session of the town council- nobody provided through those hundred years in the iconography of the modern plaque that the German Wratzer and Steiger organization offered to the people of Algeciras at the attentions that they dispensed to their ambassadors in 1906 and in the memory of the Algeciras Conference. The artist, who worked the four bronze relieves that framed the plaque, tried to transmit a legend that describes the international event: the pacification of Morocco.

An Iberian golden eagle freed in Cádiz after being recovered from a shot in the Sierra Norte.

Technical experts of the environment council liberated in La Janda (Cádiz) an Iberian golden eagle specimen (Aquila adalberti) which was shot the last 11th of December in the municipality of Castilblanco de los Arroyos (Sevilla). The eagle, a three years old male, forms a part of the specimens group which has been released in La Janda, being a part of the specie Reintroduction project that the environment council carried out since 2002 with the collaboration of the Doñana Biological Station.
The wounded eagle was taken in by the Seprona until its admission in the Sevilla Threatened Species Recovery Centre, where the staff identified it as one of the birds of prey which were reintroduced by means of controlled breeding captivity techniques in the province of Cádiz in 2003. Although all of those eagles are equipped with two rings and with their radio-emitter which allows their monitoring, this specimen was devoid of its radio-emitter and one of its two rings; thanks to the one remaining technical experts could recognize it.

For the release, attended by the Cádiz Environment representative –Isabel Gómez-the eagle has been equipped with a new radio-monitoring device and new rings so that the Environment council technicians’ team could carry out a precise tracking in the next weeks in order to check its good adaptation to the natural environment.

Flamenco, authors’ songs and rock in Artistas en Ruta.

The music moves in the province of Cádiz during the weekends to the sound of Artistas de Ruta. The programme, which during the whole year handles various musicians in tour in different auditoriums of the Cádiz geography, is already planned for the first 2006 trimester.

Flamenco, authors’ songs and rock concentrate an offers list which starts in January with Orchestra Fireluche, a Catalonian group which plays music with toys instruments. It will play in Chiclana, El Palmar and in Cádiz since the 13th of January. D’Callaos, a fusion flamenco Catalonian group, will also play since the 20th of January in Chiclana, San Fernando and in El Palmar.

February is going to be the author’s rock and progressive jazz month. The first tendency will be covered by Ricard Puigdomenech, since the 3rd of February in Rota, San Fernando and in El Palmar; and the second one by the Chilean Juan Carlos Mendoza, in Chiclana the 17th and in San Fernando on Saturday the 18th of January.

The Nono García’s flamenco guitar will inaugurate in March performances in Bahía Sur, Chiclana and in El Palmar, as well as in Ceuta since Thursday the 9th. Javier Colís and Las Malas Luengas wiil be on stage next week in Bahía Sur and in El Palmar. Eskorzo’s funk reggae will be exclusively in Chiclana the 18th of March; and the trimester will take end from Friday the 31st to the 2nd of April with the Dhira’s electronic music in Rota, Bahía Sur, El Palmar and in Cádiz.

The Barabass (Cádiz), Odeón (San Fernando), Fox Tavern (Bahía Sur), Dadá (Rota), Fussion Art (Chiclana) and Cortijo El Cartero (El Palmar) auditoriums are the places where the artists, who take part of the programme, are going to play.