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Fishing for visitors
VILLAJOYOSA Council is attending Spain’s biggest tourism exhibition in Madrid, IFEMA, promoting fishing and seafood and its countless other attractions.
As well as the sun and the beach, the town council is promoting Moors and Christians festivals, its ageold fishing traditions and culture, and outstanding local fish and seafood dishes.
The tourism department has noticed growing interest from visitors in the town’s history and a desire to eat zerokilometre seafood and produce.
Most people here have a relationship with the sea, which is so important to the town’s culture and economy.
Villajoyosa’s tourism and fisheries councillor believes that promoting fishing and a reputation for great seafood is a commitment to sustainable tourism and a circular economy for the town, and hopes that many more people will visit to try the fresh fish and seafood on offer.
Promoting traditional trades.
Also, in collaboration with a local art gallery, the town is promoting traditional trades related to the fishing industry, such as the nets once woven by local women to support the fishermen’s families.
FOLLOWING the passing of the world’s oldest person that title now belongs to Spaniard Maria Branyas, who is currently 115.
According to a news source on Wednesday, January 18 the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) confirmed the sad passing of Sister André (Lucile Randon) on Tuesday January 17 at the age of 118.
Branyas, who is a resident of Santa Maria del Tura in Olot, was born on March 4, 1907 in San Francisco after her Catalan family moved there in 1906.
At the age of seven, they returned to Catalonia where she lived through two world wars and the Spanish civil war.
Although she is confined to a wheelchair Branyas is strong, having overcome Covid19 in 2021.
She even has a Twitter account under the name of Super Àvia Catalana (@MariaBranyas112) and where a sentence states: ‘Soc vella, molt vella, però
