The Costa del Maresme Tourist Promotion Consortium today presented the new project that involves citizens in the local promotion of the municipalities. The Maresme Ambassadors are 30 people, men and women of all ages and from each of the towns in the region, who have in common a passion for their town or city.
In the words of the president of the Consorci, Carme Ponsa, the project was born from the desire to promote the region in an “easy and understandable way, to have the resident of a municipality tell a story, legends, local products, recommendations, etc”. “A lot of curiosities, spaces and special places to visit” have emerged, he says. In reality, he said “this is what we want, that everyone is left with the idea that we have to go see this space, that place, we have to try the local product of this Maresme town. What we want is for people circulate throughout the region.”
The president encourages everyone to read the interviews with the ambassadors carried out by the photojournalist and writer specialized in travel Kris Ubach, from Maresmen by adoption, who has made the region known from a different point of view than that highlighted by the offices. of Tourism spread throughout the region: from the eyes of the residents. Ubach explains that the objective “is to bring the Maresme a little closer to the people of Mares and also to people who come from outside, because it often happens that people who come from Barcelona see the Maresme as that highway that they cross to go to the Costa Brava. It is to value what we have in this territory through the ambassadors, who are people who have explained their town: what they eat, what we can see, what their favorite corner is… It is as if you had a friend who “He explains his town and what virtues it has. The truth is that it is very beautiful and very close. They are people who love their town and everyone, in each interview, was very concerned about not leaving anything out.” All interviews can be found on the Maresme Tourism Consortium website.
Citizens, representatives of museums, associations and foundations, castellers, chefs, farmers, postmen, actors, businessmen… all types of profiles have been chosen as ambassadors of Maresme. One of them is Ariadna Rodríguez, a technician at the Premià de Mar Printing Museum, who states that “the ambassador of Maresme is a person who, whether from outside or from the town itself, knows it and feels all the pride in the world to show it to people from outside so that they come to the town, get to know it and enjoy it. In Premià de Mar, one of the most important things that we can highlight are the museums that we have. I represent the Printing Museum, a textile, industrial museum , in which we have a fantastic collection of machinery, indianas, fabrics and design that I invite you all to come and see. This invitation to the municipalities is permanent and open to all: Maresme has its doors open to make each of its corners known.
The Odèon Room, of the Municipal Theater of Canet de Mar, hosted the presentation of the project. The Councilor for Tourism of Canet de Mar, Glòria Jiménez, inaugurated the event and the mayor, Pere Xirau, closed it by highlighting the sense of region that the project provides, uniting all the municipalities from north to south and from east to west.
The ambassadors of each municipality are:
