As of today, readers of La Vanguardia can consult for free and throughout the summer the publication Estiu al Baix 2023 Next Llobregat, in which they will find throughout its 400 pages multiple offers to enjoy getaways in the Barcelona region of Baix Llobregat, which It enjoys an important offer of restaurants from the Sabors de l'Horta collective, as well as exuberant nature, with dune beaches and leafy forests, as well as 30 charming municipalities and architectural treasures.
About thirty personalities from the artistic, literary, musical, business and university worlds, converted into ambassadors, recommend their favorite corners, some unknown even to the local inhabitants of the region. Among the ambassadors are Carles Riba, Pere Baltà, Núria Salan, Alfonso López, Ferran Soriano, Jordi Fortuny, Carlota Dobaño, Salvador Valls, Esther Hachuel, Marcos Alves, Maite Carranza, Conxa Solans, Empar Fernández, Manuel Calderón, Núria Pradas, David Aliaga, Ferran Adrià, Jaume Plensa, Alex Bayx, Le Sad, Anex, Sergi Fuster, Joan Soler, Xavi Paz, Aakash Bissi, Ainhoa Lardin, Jaume Vergés, Ioia Oller, Rocio Toré and half a hundred celebrities from the region.
The guide highlights a total of 42 restaurants whose chefs are committed to local products precisely on the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat. The publication allocates a dossier to this event with the calendar of planting and harvesting dates for vegetables and fruits, recipes for cooking them, as well as the lunar phases, reports on the fundamental role of this protected space for the sustainability of the metropolitan area and its food and four opinion forums of the main protagonists of the present and future of the Parc Agrari.
The ten most accessible peaks of the Baix mountains for walking, the great route of Ponent, details on the balconies of Montserrat and extensive reports on the news of the beaches, with information on how its users value it, who rate them with a remarkable high, are the main issues of the Mar i Muntanya chapter. The popular practice of sport, with initiatives such as a soccer league for mothers or Juga Verd, from the Consell Esportiu, make up the most active summer section. As a climax, a report on the festivities, festivals and activities to go through the municipalities of the Baix from party to party until autumn.
The journalist Joan Carles Valero, promoter of the initiative, stresses that "proximity journalism is journalism with capital letters, not only because it has proper faces and names, but also because it allows us to do unique things, like this type of publication that tries to structure sentiment of community and belonging to a territory, unknown to the majority of Catalans and even to those who inhabit it”. BCN Content Factory is also the publisher of Anuari 2023 Next Llobregat, a publication that anticipated La batalla del Baix as a preview of the municipal elections and is now preparing a new edition of the book Els de Dalt del Baix and the web platform quiesquialbaix.com.
