Spain: Sacrum 2024 - International Religious Tourism Trade Fair is launched

22-05-24

This year 2024 an unprecedented international event will be held in Spain, specifically in Malaga, at the Costa del Sol Conference and Exhibition Center. Between October 25th and 27th, Sacrum. I International Exhibition of Sacred Heritage, Products, Services and Tourism of the religious world in Spain. www.sacrumexpo.com 

Sacrum 2024 is an innovative design of global meeting of the Universe of the Sacred for the society of the XXI century. Cultural, patrimonial, commercial and touristic initiative, sister of consolidated European events, such as Devotio and Koinè in Italy and Sacroexpo in Poland, in our case, adapted to the special way and devotional idiosyncrasy of our country and Latin America, with which we share faith, tradition, devotion and language. The Art, the Industry and the Business that abandons the field of the Catholic religion.

The show is organized by the national association Sacrum. Plataforma Profesional de Patrimonio Religioso e Industrias afines de España, a national non-profit professional association, which aims to create a professional platform that integrates all groups related to religious heritage. We refer to professionals of all kinds, industrialists, traders, distributors and, of course, craftsmen and artists, who through their activity provide society with everything it needs for religious practice. Likewise, we integrate all the groups, entities, institutions and individuals who demand these products and services.

One of the fundamental pillars that sustain this macro event is the celebration of “Peregrina - International Fair of Religious Tourism”, an economic, social and cultural event of annual character, which is born with the intention of itinerancy, celebrating its next editions in important destinations of religious tourism and pilgrimage. Aimed at a professional and general public, its main purpose is the exhibition, display and dissemination of the offer of goods and services of the religious tourism sector, in order to contribute to its knowledge and commercialization. This type of specialized Tourism Fair represents a great opportunity for professionals and companies to establish contacts and commercial relations for professionals and artists, an appointment to show their excellence, promote their business activity and share mutual interests.

Peregrina 2024 has a 3000 m2 pavilion for exhibition spaces, auditorium for commercial presentations, conferences and specialized round tables, business club with bar and craft workshops with live masterclass. The Fair is aimed at:

• Tourism industry

Travel agencies / tour operators / tour agents / tour operators / group tourism, sustainable tourism / tourist offices / tourist services / tourism professionals / transport companies.

But Sacrum is also:

• 2000 m2 exhibition. The heart of the project is the celebration of the National Exhibition of Sacred Art, dedicated to Hope and called Spes Nostra. With the best signatures of authors, works of imagery, painting, goldsmithing and embroidery. Masterpieces of the Spanish Sacred Heritage from the 16th to the 21st century: Martínez Montañés, Juan de Mesa, Gregorio Fernández, Rubens, Luca Giordano, Luis de Morales, Alonso Cano, Salzillo, etc. together with the most important artists of Sacred Art today: masters such as Raúl Berzosa, Miñarro, Navarro Arteaga, Ruiz Montes, Romero Zafra, Darío Fernández, José María Leal, Hermanos Caballero, Juan Rosen, Grande de León, Pedro Palenciano, Curro Claros and many others. Complemented by the rich heritage of twenty-five brotherhoods dedicated to Hope and fifty artists and craftsmen of the Religious Heritage of Spain. A unique exhibition in a sacralized space...

• Symposium with capacity for 300 participants. Multidisciplinary meeting for the exchange of ideas, National Symposium of Heritage and Sacred Tourism. Designed by a Scientific Committee formed by 25 first level artistic personalities in the Spanish sector, it has programmed 6 first level conferences and 16 round tables of four speakers. We intend that the complete follow-up of the Symposium will be validated with 1 European ECTS credit of free configuration by the Chair of Brotherhood Studies of the University of Málaga, UMA, etc.

• Awards. National awards to the most important artists and artisans of the moment and honorary awards for a lifetime. The National Prizes of Sacred Art, awarded each year to 15 personalities with the Gold Medal of each artistic discipline: sculpture, painting, goldsmithing, embroidery, carving and gilding, etc.

• Other events such as the International Exhibition of religious products and services and Sacrumusica Contest of religious and brotherly music and others.

PFor further information: www.sacrumexpo.com