Dénia is a municipality and city in the Valencian Community, located on the north coast of the province of Alicante. It is the capital of the Marina Alta region with 42,953 registered inhabitants, although in summer its population can quintuple, reaching 200,000. It is the municipality in Spain with less than 50,000 inhabitants that receives the most vacationers, according to seasonal population figures from the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations.
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The Dénia Festival de les Humanitats is an initiative of the Dénia City Council, Generalitat Valenciana and Baleària, is coordinated by the Fundació Dénia Ciutat Creativa of Gastronomy and Josep Ramoneda and Jordi Alberich (La Maleta de Portbou) are its academic directors.
The Generalitat Valenciana encompasses the set of self-government institutions of the Valencian Community. The Valencian Courts, the president and the Council of the Valencian Generalitat form part of it. Other institutions of the Generalitat are the Audit Office, the Ombudsman, the Valencian Council of Culture, the Valencian Academy of Language, the Legal Consultative Council of the Valencian Community, the Economic and Social Committee of the Valencian Community and the Agency Valencian Anti-Fraud.
La Maleta de Portbou is a humanities and economics magazine, directed by Josep Ramoneda, which offers different ways of accessing culture. Some of its main purposes are: to contribute to the debate about the current world and its meaning, to confront technological, cultural, social and geopolitical fractures, and to promote a cosmopolitan view from a European perspective, incorporating points of view considered minority and peripheral views.
The Denia Creative City of Gastronomy Foundation is a non-profit entity created to help, collaborate and support Dénia as a Creative City of Gastronomy, a distinction obtained by UNESCO in December 2015. The Dénia City Council and the regional business community participate jointly in this foundation, represented by the Marina Alta Business Circle (CEDMA), the Marina Alta Hospitality and Tourism Business Association (AEHTMA) and the Baleària shipping company. The Foundation supports and promotes projects related to culture and creativity in all its areas, such as the D*na Festival or the Dénia Festival of the Humanities.
