WORKSHOP IN ÚBEDA AND BAEZA
The inland Andalucía tourism centre CENTIA is doing what it can to ensure that the towns of Úbeda and Baeza are included in the world heritage sites list from UNESCO, the United Nations organisation for Education and Culture. To this end CENTIA has organised a workshop in the city of Valencia where 23 companies from the tourism sectors in Úbeda and Baeza have presented their restaurant and accommodation services as well as monument routes to more than 50 Valencian travel agents. The event intends to attract the tourist from Valencia to these two renaissance cities, but with the main aim of supporting the naming of Úbeda and Baeza as world heritage sites. All those to attend the workshop have been given numerous guides to the province of Jáen as well as a bottle of its star product – olive oil. The event which saw great support from the Valencian tourism sector, ended with a gastronomic feast from Úbeda and Baeza restaurant owners, where those present could try delights such as pork fillet in an earthenware dish, the rim-ram or the farmhouse breadcrumbs among other dishes. So that the event did not lose any Andalucian flavour, the Casa de Andalucía in Paterna delighted those present with a folklore demonstration.

PICASSO HONOURS THE BULLFIGHTER
Some 50 works from Pablo Picasso, brought together by the family of the matador Luis Miguel Dominguín, make up the exhibition 'Picasso – Praise for the bullfighter' which is on in the Cádiz Provincial Palace. The collection of works ranges from drawings to engravings, collage and ceramic pieces which the Dominguín-Bosé family have collected over years. Given the relationship between the Málaga painter and the bullfighter's family, these works have a great sentimental value. Among the original documents to be found in the exhibition, the drawing of a project for a bullring designed by Picasso, Luis Muiguel Dominguín and the architect Antonio Bonet planned to be constructed in the Casa de Campo in Madrid is outstanding. As a complementary event to this show, which remains in the Cádiz Provincial palace until June 30, a series of photographs of Dominguín dressing Picasso as a bullfighter are on show.

TOURIST BOARD WEB PAGE PRIZE
The Junta de Andalucía tourism web page has been given a prize by the Agent Travel magazine for the best tourist information service in Spain in 2001. For the awarding of this prize the magazine carried out a monthly survey of 70 travel agencies last year where they valued the work carried out in different areas related to the tourism sector, such as airlines, hotels and travel agents. The official site of Andalucian Tourism www.andalucia.org is one of the most visited pages in the sector nationally and last April received more than 100,000 visits. In addition new features such as the Thematic Guide to Flamenco have been introduced for all those interested in this display of Andalucian culture.

RECOVERY OF TOURISM IN DOÑANA
The Doñana Nature Park in Huelva will this year recover the international tourism it lost following the breakage in the Aznalcóllar dam some four years ago. The association of active tourism companies in Doñana has forecast that more than 85,000 people will visit the park and the district this year, and of these approximately 80% are Spaniards and the remaining 20% foreigners from Great Britain, Germany, Holland and Scandinavian countries. The campaigns organised by central government and the Junta de Andalucía have helped national tourism to recover in 1999 and reach the same levels of before the breaking of the mining dam. This year Doñana will finally recover the numbers of international visitors who can admire the beauty and richness of the flora and fauna of this National Park.

GENALGUACIL MUSEUM
The locality of Genalguacil, in the heart of the Genal valley in Málaga, will have a museum and visitors centre before the end of the year. The Junta de Andalucía has already started the construction works which have a budget of more than 250,000 €. The future Genalguacil visitors centre will have an area where visitors can contemplate some of the forms of rural life specific to this district of the Ronda mountain range. This small Málaga province village, which likes to consider itself as the only open air museum, where the residents are the conservationists and guides, will celebrate the sixth 'Valle del Genal' art meet between August 1 and 15. Earlier editions have left the street of the village with 50 sculptures and numerous paintings and works of art which have passed into the ownership of the municipality. The works which can not stand the weather will be kept in a municipal building until the new Modern Art Museum is opened.

VINOBLE 2002
The town of Jerez de la Frontera, in Cádiz province, has, among its attractions, some exquisite wines recognised around the world. Until June 1 the locality celebrates the Third International Noble Wine Festival, Vinoble 2002, which attracts the best wine connoisseurs and tasters from across the world. The best display of sweet, generous and fortified wines will be present in the Jerez Alcázar. 17 countries, five more than in the last edition, and a hundred production areas are taking part in this event which is held every two years. All this, in more than 80 stands and also in the presence of more than 100 buyers, principally from Europe, America, Japan and Australia to see the best wines and vintages brought to Vinoble, and not forgetting those from Jerez, Montilla or Málaga representing Spain. An occasion to see the real jewels of the wine making world brought together.