Andalusian week at Olympiapark, 22.Jun-1.Jul.2007

During ten days, Andalusia will be on the spotlight at one of the most characteristic locations in Munich, the Coubertain Square of Olympia Park, across the Olympiastadion. Here, the Department of Tourism, Commerce and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía will stage the “Andalusian Week in Munich� from June 22 to July 1, a promotional campaign aimed at presenting the diverse tourist offering of the Andalusian Community and consolidating the German market as the second issuer of foreign tourists to Andalusia.

The Andalusian Week, held this year in Munich, arrives in Germany for the first time, after having visited Paris last year, is designed to become a meeting place for tourists and citizens of Munich so that they can have a chance to know the culture, traditions, the avant-garde, the light and the colour of Andalusia, and to participate in the numerous events and activities to be held during these ten days.

To this end, the Coubertin Square of the Olympia Park will become a typical Andalusian fairground. A total of six stalls by the lakeside decorated in the Andalusian style will offer visitors the possibility of accessing all the information on the tourism offering, from sun and beck holidays to gastronomy, and including nature, cultural tourism, health and beauty, golf, active tourism or flamenco.

Besides these thematic exhibitions, a total of eight different spaces will be created in the stalls, recreating the typical Andalusian patios, so that visitors can have a firsthand impression of the real Andalusia, where the eight provinces of the region will be represented (Cordoba, Granada, Seville, Malaga, Cadiz, Jaen, Huelva and Almeria), with detailed information on their respective offerings.

Dance and music will have a distinguished presence in this event. For this, a central stage will be set up, to present a number of dance and music performances during the “Andalusian Fair�. There will also be interactive flamenco and sevillanas lessons; gastronomy will also be present in a number of presentations and tastings of typical Andalusian products.

Where: The Coubertain Square of Olympia Park, across the Olympiastadion.
When: Friday, 22.06.07 - Sunday, 01.07.07

Mon - Fri: 14:00-20:30 hrs
Sat + Sun: 11:00-20:30 hrs

Enjoy!!

Thanks for the info! Here's a link to the website.

I was there today and it looks great! Lots culinary specialities from Spain and flamenco music. It is definitely worth a visit! Ole!

We were in Andalusia last year on vacation, this will surely refresh our mamories.

mamories eh?

spent the whole week building the place, its pretty interesting and the people running it are very friendly. nice to stop off on the way to tollwood and learn a little bit about the spanish bavaria

I am so sorry: Mammories. It was a topless beach.

I went and was pretty disappointed. There was 1 stand with 'tapas', 1 stand with sherry and jamon; that was it in the way of food so of course the queues were really long. They had booths you could walk in to watch a promo film of each place in Andalucia but there wasn't much really in the way of activities or information. I went to the Malaga stand, and they had 1 leaflet for example. It's handy if you want free maps of the area though - you can get these from the main info stand.

It's fine to look around if you're in that area anyway, otherwise I wouldn't bother.

Agree with UA. Went there on Saturday en route to Tollwood, and didn't find much that seemed interesting. Left again after roughly 10 minutes.

yeh i suppose you have to be kind of lucky to be there when somethings actually happening. im working at the thing and i havent been able to find any programme or plan of whats on and when. there was free beer, wine, sherry and loads of different tasty things on offer on friday for example... saturday might be a good day to poke your heads in.

i was there on saturday, beautiful, really worth having a look at, and if you're lucky, you'll even get to see the flamenco show

Spanish food you say? I might visit.

My Spanish companion wouldn't even try the tapas, that disgusting it looked to him, so .. be careful! Plus be prepared for long queues.

Shit, then I might stay in and try to learn some german or to improve my cooking abilities.