This Sunday, October 12, ARA readers in the Girona regions will once again find a special gift with the newspaper: the third issue ofThe Promotion, quarterly magazine Published by the El Foment Cultural Foundation. The irreverent and versatile Albert Pla i Peyu are the stars of a new 116-page edition dedicated to Catalan culture, language, and gastronomy.

The irreverent Albert Pla and Peyu are the protagonists of the third issue of the quarterly paper magazine The Promotion, which publishes the El Foment Cultural Foundation for the entire Catalan-speaking world, and which ARA readers in the Girona region will find included free with the newspaper this Sunday, October 12. It consists of 116 pages of Catalan culture, gastronomy, and language in a magazine whose aim is to be a "national tool," in the words of its director, Andreu Mas. The magazine insert for the second consecutive quarter is part of a collaboration agreement between the ARA and The Promotion to "strengthen and promote Catalan culture, language, and gastronomy," according to Candi Granés, the founder and president of the Girona-based organization based in the Barri Vell neighborhood.

Anyone living or visiting the Girona region this weekend who goes to the newsstand to buy the newspaper this Sunday, July 20th, will find a very special gift. Together with ARA, they will receive the second edition of the magazine for free. The Promotion, 116 pages of Catalan culture, language, and gastronomy. This is a publication edited in Girona by the El Foment Cultural Foundation, which has its base of operations with different spaces in the heart of the Barri Vell, but which wants to go much further and be a "tool to reconnect the entire Catalan linguistic sphere", in the words of the director, Andreu Mas.

It's not every day that a magazine is born in Girona with the aim of reaching all the Catalan countries. And even less so from a project that, like a "matrioche," has been growing for five years From the heart of the Barri Vell neighborhood, expanding throughout the city, the district, and soon the entire Principality. It was unveiled this week. The Promotion, a new quarterly publication of at least 116 pages published in "record time," in the words of the director, of just four months.

After in July of Last year he announced that he was leaving music And after months without giving interviews, Josep Miquel Arenas, known musically as Valtònyc, opens up in a long conversation in the new cultural magazine The Promotion, presented yesterday, Tuesday, in Girona. The quarterly, 114-page publication was born in the "record time" of just four months after the president of the El Foment Foundation, Candi Granés, entrusted journalist Andreu Mas with the management of the project.

In 2020, just before the outbreak of the pandemic, in the Mercaders square in Girona, halfway between the Rambla and the Plaza del Vi, was born The Promotion, a very ambitious private initiative that works to spread the Catalan language, culture and gastronomy. The first stone was the School, soon after the Taverna opened, then the Fonda and, later, the Center, thus forming a kind of cultural complex around the same square, where, in addition to serving dozens of Catalan dishes every day, a lot of activities are organized. This 2025 El Foment celebrates five years with a great desire to establish itself as a cultural center of reference in the Països Catalans.