The plenary session of the Provincial Corporation held today has taken up the renewal of the charge of management of the application of the regulations for the control of the quality of water for human consumption made by 16 consistories of the province. With this agreement the Water Laboratory of the Provincial Autonomous Organization Prodestur Segovia is in charge of the management of the sampling and the control analysis or complete to which the signatory City Councils are bound in accordance with Royal Decree 140 / 2003, of 7 for February.

Some 1.500 people have tasted the popular Cocido that is distributed in the fifteenth Fair of the Garbanzo de Valseca, which has had a special flavor because it has served to welcome the Label of Guarantee of the legume that has achieved with the support of the laboratory of Prodestur. The Fair, organized by the City Council of the town and in which the County Council collaborates, serves the municipality to become a focus of attraction around its most famous product.

The XV Feria del Garbanzo that will be developed between the 15 and 18 of May in Valseca and in which the County Council collaborates will be remembered as the first in which the legume has a Guarantee Mark, obtained in December of 2018 after the management of the Prodestur laboratory. The Fair, organized by the town council, serves the municipality to become a focus of attraction around its most famous legume. That is why the town is dedicated to the promotion of this highly identifying product by organizing a series of events whose protagonism is the focus of this event, which was presented today by the President of the Diputación Francisco Vázquez and the mayor of Valseca, Alfonso Gil. In the appearance before the media, a representative of the Association for the Development of Garbanzo de Valseca, Ignacio Rincón; the deputy of Prodestur, Magdalena Rodríguez, and the deputy of Economic Promotion, Jaime Pérez.

The President of the Diputación, Francisco Vázquez, has participated today in the inauguration of the National Congress of the Union of Travel Agencies (UNAV) that takes place at the Juan Bravo Theater until tomorrow 6 Saturday in April and brings together more 250 agents trips, on behalf of 2.800 points of sale.

One of the most deeply rooted activities that take place within the Segovia Week of Cooking events is the visit to different towns in the province, organized by Prodestur Turismo Segovia, the tourist agency of the Diputación. The route, which has been developed on Monday, has been attended by fifty hospitality entrepreneurs from the province.

• The course was held at Hotel Manantial el Chorro de Navafría, one of the eight establishments that has a Starligth certificate, an ideal destination for astronomical observation

• The objective of the theoretical part has been to communicate the concept of astrotourism and the expectations that can generate

A route of 11,2 kilometers between Puebla de Pedraza and Sebúlcor centers the route that the Provincial Council, through its tourist organism Prodestur, proposes on Sunday 7 of April to realize the fourth stage of the Way of San Frutos, the provincial pilgrimage for the related places with the holy hermit.

The twenty-seventh Week of Cooking organized by the Industrial Association of Segovia Hostelers and in which the County Council collaborates will take place between March 26 and April 7. The event returns to its annual appointment serving as a point of reference and meeting of the sector, which dresses long to present its most representative gastronomic proposals. Thirteen restaurants, five of them from the province, make up the list of participants.

Prodestur Segovia, the Department of Tourism of the Provincial Council, has begun today the work of coordination between the directors of golf clubs in the province and tourism entrepreneurs in order to make the Segovian province the preferred destination for players and national and international golf players. For this they want to offer the possibility of designing, individually or in a group, a golf experience, combined with other tourist options, made to measure.

The province of Segovia already has another product with the Guarantee Brand: El chickpea de Valseca. The Control and Certification Unit of the Agricultural Technology Institute of Castilla y León (ITACYL) has validated the reports and arguments presented by the Prodestur laboratory with which it was justified that the vegetable met all the requirements to obtain the qualification. These were also accompanied by a proposal for use regulation for the brand that has also been ratified. The Garbanzo de Valseca joins other Segovian agricultural products that already have a qualifying figure such as the Garlic of Vallellado or the Judgment of La Granja.

The International Tourism Fair of Madrid, Fitur has started its journey today. Throughout the event the representatives of Prodestur, with its deputy Magdalena Rodríguez at the head and the tourism technician Sofia Collazo, will hold previously arranged meetings with tourism entrepreneurs.

The Villa de Cuéllar hosted the VI Outdoor Horticultural Congress, organized by the cooperative of the Glus I field and the Tierras magazine, with the collaboration, among other entities and companies, of the Diputación de Segovia.

More than fifty businessmen and tourism agents today attended the second of the three workshops created to promote bicycle tourism as a tourist resource in the province of Segovia. Organized by Prodestur, the tourist agency of the Diputación that directs the deputy Magdalena Rodríguez, the seminar has explained in a double session the manual of quality of the cyclotouristic services in the province of Segovia. Prodestur sees in this resource a determining factor to increase overnight stays.

An application that will contain all the tourist resources of the province to have them available on the mobile phone, and new brochures and publications will be the main additions to the tourism offer that the Provincial Council of Segovia will present this year at the Interior Tourism Fair of Valladolid .