90% of the activities of the Gastronomic Congress will take place in Caldas Park – La Campana Newspaper
Guatemala, guest country; Amazonas, the invited department, and Patía, representing Cauca, will arrive in Popayán with the best of their food and traditions.
Of the 80 activities open to the public in the next Gastronomic Congress of Popayán, which reaches its XXII version, 90 percent will take place in the Francisco José de Caldas park.
This event, which will take place between September 5 and 8, the logistics of which are being fixed, includes activities that focus on the Parc Caldas fairs, where more than 45,000 people will arrive.
For the first time in 21 years, the Congress Academic Forum will be held in Caldas Park (Gobernación Street); The Information stages will be located in front of the Cathedral and Sabor, on Gobernación Street, where you will find a wide range of traditional foods, restaurants, drinks and ancient bars.
According to the Popayán Gastronomic Corporation, more than 50 famous national and international chefs, chefs, academics, researchers, businessmen and artists will share with the public at different stages of the Congress, and among them, for the first time, there will be Tulio Recomienda, Guido Niño, Diego Camargo and Los Ñam.
Typical Guatemalan food, Cultural Heritage.In addition, there will be an exhibition of craft, business, institutional and entertainment samples, which will promote the cultural, tourism and economic activity of the capital of Cauca, at a time when the region is going through a difficult situation of public order, said the president of the Corporation, Enrique González Ayerbe.
In this new version, there is a Republic Guatemala; At the national level, the department of Amazonas, with its capital Leticia, and in Cauca, the municipality of Patía, three different cultures that will share their gastronomy, crafts, art and music.
Pork as a guest product will be the central ingredient of the preparations. Similarly, samples and specialist tasting sessions will be offered to students, teachers, coaches and food lovers.
Other activities
In terms of parallel activities, the public will be able to participate in CO-CINE, a film exhibition dedicated to exploring and celebrating the richness of gastronomy and food culture through audiovisual art.
Similarly, the University Information Meeting has been organized, which will be held at Unicomfacauca, which has an important Gastronomy program.
The Taste for Reading will be a space to learn about the latest news in the field of gastronomy, in the voice of its authors, in the library of the Banco de la República.
Gastronomy of Amazonas department.Special location for the Congress
After Popayán was designated by UNESCO as a “Creative City of Gastronomy,” and with the Gastronomic Congress reaching its 22nd year of existence, as well as the great recognition it enjoys at national and international levels, it would important to him. to be developed in a location suitable for this event, with modern infrastructure and excellent logistics. In this way, the Caldas park, the “Popayán Room”, which had to be used for the Congress, because there was no other place, would be left for tourists to enjoy the architecture of the monumental sector, which is national heritage.
It will be up to the Mayor’s Office in Popayán, with the support of other actors, to choose a site and develop a project to give the city a real fair, not only for the Gastronomic Congress, but for many more events. You can think, as many have suggested, about the Francisco Villamil Londoño Bullring and, at the same time, recover that iconic building and revitalize such an important sector of the city.
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