I admit that I have lived in Baix Penedès for many years but, due to life circumstances, I had never seen the carpets made in Bellvei.

"If you ask, some will tell you this is the Penedès, others that it's the Camp de Tarragona, but there are also those who will tell you it's the metropolitan area of Barcelona." Jon Olano is a sociologist and professor at the URV (University of Valencia). He knows El Vendrell very well. He has lived there since he was ten years old, when his family emigrated from a village in the Basque Country. He also wrote his doctoral thesis on this municipality. We listened to him and asked the mayor himself, Kenneth Martínez: "No, no, we are clear about it! We are Tarragona. For practical purposes, we are part of the Barcelona metropolitan area, and everything that happens in Barcelona affects us directly, but by tradition and culture, we look to Tarragona and the Penedès, of course. We are in the middle of everything," he concludes.