Mancomunidade de Municipios Arousa-Norte
Arousa Norte takes part in the TiE project and is responsible for promoting cultural dialogue and diversity as well as immaterial cultural heritage in the frame of the project Travel in Europe. Moreover, Arousa Norte will include the Galician language in the project as a minority language with official use in EU institutions.
Mancomunidade de Municipios Arousa Norte was set up in 1974 and works as a regional public organization made up of four counties: A Pobra do Caramiñal, Boiro, Rianxo and Riveira. This area is situated in the west of A Coruña, with a surface of 245 square kilometres and has a population of 65 500 inhabitants, approx. The region is known for the large number and variety of its historical and archaeological monuments, sites and vestiges, from megalithic constructions to folk architecture and a heritage of folk traditions and beliefs.
The main aim of Mancomunidade de Municipios Arousa Norte is to consolidate the region as a distinguished and quality tourist destination in the national and international scene.
Important efforts have been made to enhance this aim, depending on Public Administration through an European Union funded Plan for the Dynamization of Tourism, implemented by Mancomunidade de Municipios Arousa Norte in 2002 and completed in 2006. During this plan, Mancomunidade de Municipios Arousa Norte developed different projects to diversify and enrich the tourist offer: arranging infrastructures to revalue them, creating new tourist products -as museums, footpath routes, etc.,- offering occupational training, preparing and publishing tourist guides; furthermore different actions of advertising and promotion were taken to make this tourist destination and its resources known.
Besides, Mancomunidade de Municipios Arousa Norte tries to bring its cultural heritage to the population by using new technologies. Its web site, http://www.arousa-norte.es/, has received the Best Web of Tourism Promotion of Galicia Prize in 2006. An interactive CD-Rom named “Antón o Mexillón” (“Anton the Mussel”) has also been also edited to promote the knowledge of the region among kids.
During the Plan for the Dyanmization of Tourism, Mancomunidade de Municipios Arousa Norte developed some innovative projects which have situated the region at the forefront of tourist leadership:
- AGENDA 21 was implanted as a way to achieve a sustainable tourist destination through a regional strategic plan.
- “CREAR TURISMO” (“Creating Toursim”) is a project which promotes to set up new tourist enterprises. It is based on a study on the tourist business sector, its requirements and needs. Due to the success of this project, more and more people are participating every year and now it is running its third edition.
- CASAS MARIÑEIRAS is one of the latest projects carried out by Mancomunidade de Municipios Arousa Norte which creates a new typology of lodgings exclusive to the region Arousa Norte and inspired by the traditional houses of the oldest workers in the area, the sailors.
- Ruta do Mexillón (Route of the Mussel) which includes a sea route, a meal with mussels cooked in different ways and a traditional Galician music and dance performance.
- Promotion of the tinned fish and selfish of Arousa Norte through the project “Da Conserva ao Prato” (“From tin to plate”). It consists of menus based in preserved products that will be tasted in Arousa Norte.
- Industrial Tourism means visiting the canning industry and watching how employees work.
CONTACT:
MANCOMUNIDADE DE MUNICIPIOS AROUSA NORTE
Praza de Galicia, s/n
15930 BOIRO (A CORUÑA)
SPAIN
Tel: +34 981 845 236
Fax: +34 981 849 925
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