In September 2004, the Catalan town of Begur organized its first Indian Fair, an event which has been organized every year until its 19th edition in 2024. Year after year and for a weekend, this town on the Costa Brava is full of activities that celebrate these Indians who, in the 19th century, returned to the municipality enriched after having “made the Americas”. Begur is therefore full of visitors who multiply its population tenfold.
The successful example of its Indian Fair led, through imitation, six other Catalan municipalities to organize similar celebrations, many of them also grouped in an Indian Xarxa de Municicipis on the Catalan coast. And there is also the recent creation of two Indian or American interpretation centers in Begur and Sant Pere de Ribes. Everything, everything, everything, financed with public money and with a clear orientation towards the promotion of local tourism rather than towards historical or heritage dissemination (it is enough to mention that the vice-president of the network is the representative in said association of the Côte du Maresme Tourist Promotion Consortium).
