The twenty-eighth edition of the Cartagena Book Fair closed last night with a new record turnout of visitors, 90,000 people who packed the streets of Old Town in which houses have been installed.
The commitment to the new location, in Puerta de Murcia, has favored the increased number of visitors and therefore sales, according to booksellers and have secured the participating publishers.
In addition to classroom visitors, most noteworthy is the Internet.
The portal of the Fair has received since its introduction last October 7 2933 visits with a total of 11,267 page views.
From the information you have provided the page is to highlight the 5,220 entries that had the Book, 1,520 of the Authors and the 556 visits to exhibitors who have participated in the fair.
From abroad have also received visits from the United Kingdom being the most numerous with 373 entries to the portal.
Scheduled children's activities have hung the sign of complete every day, through workshops such as puppet shows and colagraf.
In addition, the attraction of rocket installed three meters long at the fair itself has been the delight of thousands of children who have come to ride on it.
Another mainstay of the show along with the location and children's programming, has been the presence in the city of authors the likes of Angela Vallvey, Manuel Vicent, Javier Moro and Alvaro Pombo, who participated via los'Encuentros with author ', where they presented their book and have exchanged ideas and opinions with their readers.
Also, the live broadcast from the Palace Hall RNE program 'not a day cualquier'dirigido by Pepa Fernandez has given the Fair and Cartagena both nationally and internationally.
Among the new addition to the website and radio show for Spain included the initiative launched local libraries to buy books that readers will not find in their loan funds.
The music, supplied this year by the municipality of Torre Pacheco, gatherings and workshops in printmaking, bookbinding and puppets have completed the program of the twenty-eighth edition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena