Conference on cooking in Medival times

Can Ventosa in Ibiza will welcome today, at 19.30 hours, the conference ` Cuina i alimentació a l´època Medieval´(Medieval Cooking), by Maria Soler, professor of medieval History of the University of Barcelona and expert in gastronomy .

It will be analyze how the nobles ate , the clergy and the farmers in medieval society, the diet depended on one's social category. The monks had a spartan diet, manly a vegetarian and anorexia was a signal of sanctity.

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Ibiza news : 500 rescued tourtles since 1983

The documentary contains beautiful, but also hard images, of tourtles cought up in fishing equipments. The hooks are their main enemy, to the point that a special model has been developed to avoid tourtles swallowing them. From the year 1983 till know 500 of them have been rescued in Ibiza and the rest of the Balearic waters. The cost of the video has been of around 10,000 euros, not a significant amount, explained the chief of a main directorate of Protection of Species, Antoni Gomez, thanks to the "generous contribution of the biologist Manu San Felix".

See the amazing underwater world of the island by scuba diving in Ibiza

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Ibiza boat moorings are Spains' most expensive

The industry declares.."..the lack of supply increases the prices of the moorings", while the opponents to new yacht harbors declare that "only a few benefit from them" .

The debate on the necessity (or not) to buildt new sport harbors in Ibiza and Formentera and their possible effects, positive and negative, is open.

The spokswoman in Ibiza of the Balearic Association of Nautical Facilities, Cristina Marí, said, ".... nautical tourism is a totally consolidated sector in the Islands and indicated that the present demand makes it necessary, in the mid term, to duplicate the 2,300 existing moorings."

Marí emphasized the "positive impact" which this type of facilities will have on the economy, affirming that "...Each euro invested in the sport harbors, generates between 3 and 10 euros in its surroundings", and emphasized that "nowadays a port is unthinkable that does not have systems to diminish the environmental impact".

The president of the nautical sector of the Pimeef, Mariano Torres, emphasized that these facilities contribute to improve tourism of the islands, and emphasized that the lack of moorings causes that the prices of Ibiza are the most expensive in Spain.

For a boat of twelve meters of length, in August you can pay up to 145 euros/day, whereas the average price is located in 85 euros. In Almeria, the cost does not surpass the 16 euros, whereas in Valencia or Barcelona it goes up to around the 33 euros/day.

On the other hand, the spokesman of the GENE, Marià Marí, like the representative of Alternative Esquerra Unida-Els Verds, Daniel Moreno, rejected the construction of new sport harbors and explained that, "... this type of infrastructure can't be made with out also building new roads and extending the airport".

Marià Marí considered a "authentic barbary" the construction of new sport ports when, "..we try to control anchorages in areas like ses Salines". Both defended a sustainable tourist model, that grows in quality, with facilities that really are useful for the society, not only for determined economic interests. Ibiza counts, has a total of eight nautical facilities and three of them are sport harbors.

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