MEDEMPORION

Med EMPORION is a project promoted and leaded by the cities of Torino, Barcelona and Genova, together with de Conservatoria dell Piemonte and the Conservatoire des Cuisines de la Mediterranée of Marseille. The general goal of the project is to study the importance of food markets in the Mediterranean area as a tool of urban development and economic promotion and to undertake a research about the importance of the product of proximity and the role of the market as a tool for social cohesion... - Identification of the common potentials and values of the markets of the Mediterranean zone as key elements in the trade of proximity and the articulation of the populations... - Organization of four food festivals in Marseille, Torino, Barcelona and Genova to spread the reality of the Mediterranean markets, their values and their characteristic products among the general public and to allow a contact between market traders and operators from east-west and north -south of the Mediterranean..

Primary location: Barcelona