The Association for the Development of the Calatrava Field brings together

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The Campo de Calatrava Development Association has closed its programming this Saturday, June , for the anniversary of its foundation with the activity “The rural-urban connection as a response to demographic imbalances. A transversal view from literature and journalism", in which four great writers and journalists such as Nieves Herrero, Reyes Monforte, Javier Sierra and Mari Pau Domínguez participated, to share their personal experiences, literature and journalism with the city. and with the territory beyond it.

The event, which took place at the Parador de Almagro and brought together nearly a hundred people, was free of charge, like the rest of the events scheduled to commemorate the birth of the Association, and its objective was to reflect and debate about the connection Phone Number Database between the rural and the urban, that is, about how they look, read and write from big cities to regions like Campo de Calatrava, and on the other hand, to analyze what the city can learn from the rural environment and vice versa, from literature.

Thus, during the round table, presented by the president of the AD Campo de Calatrava, Gema García, and moderated by the director of Diario Lanza, Concepción Sánchez, the concept of “empty Spain” was discussed, the search for a “Spain without labels” and how to stop the depopulation that affects since the exodus towards the big cities of the 1950s, and in an increasingly worrying way, different areas of the interior of Castilla-La Mancha and, in the same way, to part of the province of Ciudad Real and to some municipalities located in the Campo de Calatrava region.

Following this question, “Open Spain” arose, proposed by the novelist Reyes Monforte, a space to which people want to return or that serves to discover that there can also be a way of life far from the cities, although not for that reason. , you have to “hate” them; the concept of “The Spain of Opportunities” by the Teruel writer Javier Sierra, where it is possible to imagine a better life and with passionate people who launch well-sized projects for the territory.

On the other hand, the journalist Nieves Herrero, who asked in a relaxed moment of the talk to “be adopted in Campo de Calatrava”, presented the concept of “connected Spain”, where people are allowed to work and be up to date with current events in the world, thanks in large part to technology. Furthermore, the idea of ​​a “more human Spain” appeared, rooted in the memory and nostalgia of those who were born in the rural world, in the towns, where time and salaries “are more profitable” than in large cities.



Likewise, the four speakers agreed that we must “end the digital divide,” as it is the main difficulty for the socioeconomic advancement of rural areas, and therefore, the arrival of job opportunities for new generations.This activity, which was broadcast live on the YouTube channel of the Association for the Development of the Calatrava Field, was followed online by fifty viewers, and can be seen at this link.

The delegate of the Board of Communities, Carmen Teresa Olmedo, highlighted today that the support that the Government of Castilla-La Mancha offers year after year to the Torre de Juan Abad organ concert cycle reaches a new dimension on this occasion, since it coincides with the inauguration of the restoration of the main altarpiece of the temple that houses the instrument and with the beginning of the process to declare the church a Site of Cultural Interest.