In September 2004, the Catalan town of Begur held its first Indian Fair, an event that has been organized annually until reaching its 19th edition in 2024. Year after year and for one weekend, this town on the Costa Brava is filled with activities that celebrate those Indians who during the 19th century returned to the municipality enriched after “making the Americas.” Begur is thus filled with visitors who multiply its population by ten.
The successful example of its Indian Fair caused, by imitation effect, six other Catalan municipalities to hold similar celebrations, many of them also grouped in a Xarxa de Municicipis Indians on the Catalan coast. And also added to 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 local tourism promotion rather than historical or heritage dissemination (suffice it to mention that the vice president of the network is the representative in said association of the Tourism Promotion Consortium of the Maresme Coast).
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