Cross-border cooperation projects by the Regional Directorates for Cultural Affairs

The Regional Directorates for Cultural Affairs develop important cross-border cooperation projects, including, in the North, the cooperation project with Galicia “The Galego-Portuguese cultural industry”, in the Algarve, the “DESCUBRITER, European Discoveries Route”, that aims to enhance heritage associated to the Discoveries era, or the cultural tourism projects, “Al-Mutamid” and “Umayyad”. In the Centre region, there is an important cross-border cooperation programme with the regional executive government of Castile and Leon, that aims to strengthen a particularly vulnerable cultural community within the context of development of a Europe of the regions, designated “Fronima / Imaginary frontiers”. The latter project incorporated events held in Zamora, Valladolid and Bejar that used 28 Theatres/Cultural Centres, 3 museum spaces and unconventional spaces for a local population of 60.000 persons.