The Municipality of Pehchevo within the cross-border project “Platform for cross-border tourism in the field of culture and tradition – FOLKLORE” has got a festival stage with complete sound system and equipment, as well as a modern tourist information center.
As it was announced today at a press conference, at which the results of the project were promoted, for Pehchevo this means continuation of the efforts that the municipality is making for tourism development.
The project has been implemented for the period of 24 months by the Municipality of Pehchevo in Macedonia and Breznica, Municipality of Goce Delchev in Bulgaria.
– With the tourist-information center, the tourists who will visit Pehchevo will have the opportunity to get all the necessary information in one place, which for us will mean that we will be able to promote our natural resources. We also get a modern stage where, in addition to organizing the existing Festival of Wind Orchestras, we will be able to organize a number of other events and festivals that will raise the cultural life in the city, said Mayor Dragan Trencovski.
According to the project coordinator from Breznica, Teodorina Todorova, the cooperation with the Municipality of Pehchevo enabled the development of cross-border tourism and the realization of a number of infrastructure activities.
The coordinator from the Municipality of Pehchevo, Jasminka Pasaliska Andonovska, informed that within the project a Strategy and study for tourism development has been prepared as a direction for the next steps of the municipality for tourism development.
The project “Platform for cross-border tourism in the field of culture and tradition – FOLKLORE”, worth 450,000 Euros, is implemented through the Interreg IPA cross-border program Bulgaria – Macedonia.
The first festival for cross-border festival tourism was held tonight in Pehchevo with an all-night concert by Venko Serafimovski, the band “Purple Zeppelin” and the group “That is It”. The evening concert was preceded by performances by cultural and folklore groups from the region, local music talents, as well as a folklore group from the partner in the Breznica project from Republic of Bulgaria.
Venko Serafimovski said that on this beautiful day it is wonderful to be in Pehchevo and to play the new sound system that the municipality received.
The concert was realized as a part of the project for cross-border festival tourism implemented by the partner cross-border Municipalities Pehchevo and Goce Delchev.