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CULTURE - ARTS - HEALING
be an increase in curiosity. Wendy Star,
the founder of “Good Clean Love”
writes about the healing powers of Curiosity:
“Curiosity is the seed of wonder
in us and provides the easiest doorway
to a positive outlook. It requires our full
presence and, like a good friend, will
guide our attention with high awareness
and intelligent questions.”
Marios Kyriazis, Biomedical Gerontologist,
writes in “Quora”: “By exposing
yourself to new questions, new
points of view and new mental challenges,
you increase the amount of
meaningful information that reaches
the brain, and this has several positive
biological effects such as improving
immunity. The process is based on
general hormesis via environmental
enrichment which has been studied in
hundreds of published peer-review
papers.”
Slow food cooking
So MAPE, the organiser of the
tours, seems to have discovered a new
niche: combining arts and culture and
surrounding yourself with active elements
of healing and well-being. A
relaxed stay in a spa resort is also a
modern way of increasing the powers
of regeneration, but more active activities
during a health vacation are
also of great interest to a lot of travelers.
It seems that this new way of experiencing
healing powers and learning
more about oneself will have a
very bright future.
And what’s more, it will also taste
great: the following are the dishes the
group prepared in several sessions
during the journey:
1st session: Vegetables, salads, fish
‘suquet’ (fish with sauce), romescos
(sauce), and pastry coated with oil.
2nd session: Appetizers pica-pica, rice
cooked in different styles: casserole,
paella, fideus rossos (noodles paella),
And fruit desserts.
3rd session: Tapas: classical bar
tapas: patates braves (fried potatoes in
a spicy sauce), pops picants (hot octopus),
bombes de potato (potato bomb),
mussels, clams, esqueixades (cod
salad)… Home made ice creams.
4th session: Traditional dishes with
meat and vegetables, innovated.
The teacher during these sessions is
Catalan cook
Mariona Quadrada
M a r i o n a
Q u a d r a d a ,
who has more
than 25 years
experience in
Catalan slow
food cooking.
She was the
chef at the
C a t a l a n
C o o k i n g
show in Madrid
at the
Ritz Hotel. “I
am most enthusiastic
about my work when I see
how much fun the tourists have in
these cooking classes. You can see
from their eyes and cheeks that their
immune system is being boosted!”
Another part of the health tour is the
discovery of healing powers in a spiritual
way. Spiritual Tourism is the realisation
that there are activities that
allow us to learn about our real inner
selves and our inner well-being. People
can find motivation in the path
between religious tourism and health
tourism, as well as sports tourism and
creative tourism. The main objective
of spiritual tourism is to bring about
reflection: all the activities are routed
to the goodness of inner peace, mysticism
and peace of mind in a quiet environment.
The Cister route
In Spain you can find this in the CIS-
TER ROUTE. The name comes from
the fact that each shire in the Tarragona
region has a Cistercian monastery:
Santes Creus, Poblet and Vallbona
de les Monges. The tour explores
the monasteries, which are both
monumental and sombre, and lets you
discover their own traditions and landscapes.
Visitors can discover a land
rich in culture, heritage, nature, wines
and cava (champagne), festivals and
age old traditions - A much healthier
option than simply sun bathing for 2
Cooking Holidays
Duration: 7 days
Who: Individual or for groups
When: Available upon request year
round
Cost: From 2400€ per person
Where you go - What you do:
6 nights accommodation
Breakfast daily
Domestic transportation
Welcome drink
7 Lunches - Dinner
4 Cooking Lessons
1 Wine tasting in cellar
1 Olive oil tasting in mill
All culinary and cultural excursions
English speaking guide
Local taxes
Entry fees as per the itinerary
A Culinary present
hours at high noon....
Pedro, the initiator of the Tourism and
Health service, adds: “We have found
out that health tourism is the big sister
of medical tourism for our region…
There are so many locations which, in
combination with the healing impact of
arts on individuals, should be brought
to the attention of the active medical
wellness traveler.”
MAPE is a company that specialises
in tourism and health services. These
new services not only promote and
improve health but also give the opportunity
for people to visit special
tourist attractions and get in touch
with both culture and the arts. MAPE
TyS has created a tailor made health
tour by offering excellent value and
great services for tourists visiting our
country, while also managing to cater
to their specific profile and needs.
This new type of tourism has opened
a niche market where there is both
collaboration and coordination between
experts who can supply specific
services and innovative
products.
Contacts for MAPE:
Pedro Mª González. pedro@turismosalud.com
Margarida Colet. marga@turismosalud.com
Phone: +34 606 374 138
www.tourism-health.com
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