Paterna is promoted in Fitur as Fire City and Film Stage

Paterna writing

Known for its special relationship, protection and promotion of the culture of fire and gunpowder and recently declared 'Ciutat del Foc' by Les Corts Valencianes, the city of Paterna returns this year to the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) to consolidate its projectionInternational tourism as a cradle of gunpowder, pyrotechnic protectorate and film shooting scene.

To do this, apart from having a promotional stand in the space of the Valencian Community, it will exhibit tomorrow Wednesday, January 19 at 2:15 p.m. in the central square of IFEMA, the passion for fire and how tradition maintains throughFrom different cultural and festive manifestations, with centuries of history in the city, which is part of the DNA of its inhabitants, it goes from generation to generation and has its maximum expression in the cordà de paternal.

Similarly, on Thursday 20, at 4:40 p.m..Will do it in the Fitur Screen space.

The mayor, Juan Antonio Sagredo and the Councilor for Tourism, Culture and Fire, Teresa Espinosa have been proud of how this culture of gunpowder and fire has been protected and promoting, especially during these last years and how the cityIt has been consolidating as a location of many film projects, always by the hand of its Antonio Ferrandis Film Festival.Two aspects that are part of the attractiveness of the city and that strengthen it as a tourist destination.

"Among all, City Hall, festive federations and sectoral advice we have worked to get paternal be cradle, protectorate and reference of gunpowder and fire" both point out at the same time that "from the Socialist Executive we will continue working to take care and strengthen thisroots, which is part of the DNA of the paerneros and that is present in each celebration of our city ”.

'Ciutat del Foc'

The official catalog of Paterna 'Ciutat of the FOC' achieved in 2021, represents the linking of the municipality and its inhabitants with the fire that finds its maximum expression in the Cordà de Paterna.

With more than two centuries of history, this pyrotechnic show has established itself as a unique and unique event in the recognized world with numerous distinctions nationwide and that seeks to strengthen its international projection.

Declared Festival of Autonomous Interest in 2007 and National Tourist Interest Party in 2017, the Cordà de Paterna finally the administrative steps to be officially recognized this 2022 as a good of immaterial cultural interest, one more step in the protection and promotion of this party so uniqueand emblematic.

And it is that every last Sunday of August, Paterna's sky illuminates with the shot of more than 70.000 rockets in less than 20 minutes.This is the Cordà de Paterna, the large party of the municipality that every year brings together about 350 shooters and shooters in the city's largest street to shoot 1.000 kilos of gunpowder.

The grandiosity of this light and sound show has made this partyAll in the most complicated moments that this sector has lived because of the pandemic.