“An event that is preceded by the pioneering regional tourist fair of 2015, the one with a gastronomic theme in 2016, the one for wines in 2017 and the one that pays homage to the landscape of the Marina Alta of 2018: heterogeneous and celebrated appointments in which the guidelines to promote the region through the motto have already been drawn up The Marina Alta amb els 5 sentits. "With these words, MACMA manager Jovi Lozano-Seser inaugurated the fifth regional fair that this year was attended by the Director General of Tourism, Herick Campos, who valued the importance of a strategic meeting that brings together all the towns of the region under the same framework of promotion and collaboration.
In this sense, the V Fira Marina Alta amb els 5 sentits: «The touch»: Knowledge, crafts and craftsmen gathered during the days 9 and 10 of November in the Prado de Ondara the stands of the city councils of Dénia, Pego, Els Poblets, Benitachell, Beniarbeig, Orba, Xàbia, Benidoleig, Ondara, Teulada Moraira, La Vall de Laguar, Castell de Castells, El Verger, Gata de Gorgos, as well as those of the Ruta dels Riuraus, the IECMA and the Pego and les Valls Commonwealth. The enclosure also hosted the photography exhibition Mans d'artesanes courtesy of the CV Craft Center, as well as the Exhibition of Illustrators and Illustrators of the Marina Alta. The MACMA and the Grup d'Acció Local of the Muntanya d'Alacant, organizers of the forum, also had their own stand. And it is that the forum was the main stage where on Saturday it was reflected on the theme of this year through presentations and presentations such as that of chef Evarist Miralles, of restoring Caball Verd of the Vall de Laguar, or of the Col·lectiu Pedra i Calç , which presented the book Pedra i Calç. Likewise, one of the main points of the day went to presentation and signature by the mayors and mayors present of the regional Pact "Letter of the Country and of the Pedra Seca".
Saturday afternoon was occupied by the regional forum The paisatge de pedra seca. Reptes and oportunitats of futur, in which the architect Ivana Ponsoda, the Unió Comarcal d'Amics i Amigues of the Vall de Gallinera, the Pego Viu association, the Mancomunidad del Vall de Pop, the GAL Muntanya d'Alacant and the MACMA, the Heritage technique participated of which Nuria Gómez Bolufer addressed in her intervention the potential of the resource of dry stone, a panorama of the future that was studied in the subsequent round table.
The following Sunday he had a more playful approach with activities such as the urban route Picapedrers, ferrers and manyans. The offices that devise els pobles, guided by Vicent Ortuño, architect, geographer and founder of MACMA, the storyteller Rogeta, l'ovella guirra, by Col·lectiu Esquellana-Tramussera, a gastronomic presentation by the chef and ideologist Pep Romany, a seitan tasting with Valencian products by the vegan restaurant Tribus Benitachell and the presentation of the fishing tourism project in Xàbia Trip & Feel.
However, the highlight of the day was the artisan fireta Fet a mà, fet a la Marina: a MACMA initiative that brought together 26 stops of artisan enterprises and producers and regional producers, and which aims to be the basis of a global project of cohesion of the crafts of the Marina Alta. Already in the afternoon, the round table In feminí, invisible sabers - with the benisseres Belén Ivars Ribes and Carme Ivars Jiménez moderated by Nuria Gómez Bolufer - closed the programming of the forum.
It should also be mentioned that throughout the weekend, the Orba stand hosted mud workshops while Ondara held Valencian pilot workshops.
In short, a showcase and a dynamic and diverse weekend to represent the thickness of regional crafts and of the traditional works that have consolidated in this fifth edition the agglutinating character of the Fira Marina Alta and that represent another stone in the margin of the regional vertebration that the MACMA represents.
