ONCE coupons
The ONCE organisation issues a series of 40 million coupons featuring the Centenary of the Costa Brava and announces the publication of a Costa Brava tourist guide in Braille.
MARCH 2014
The ONCE (Spanish National Organisation for the Blind) is taking part in the celebrations of the Centenary of the Costa Brava promoted by the Patronat de Turisme with a series of eight coupons to be issued in the months of June, July and August 2009.
Each coupon displays the Costa Brava Centenary logo together with a scenic image of the area through which the natural, scenic and tourism attractions of the destination are publicised. In total, 40 million commemorative coupons will be issued.
This is the first time since the 2004 Forum of Cultures that the ONCE Catalonia organisation has issued twenty commemorative coupons for a single event.
Five million coupons will be issued for each draw. The Costa Brava Centenary series will include 40 million coupons in total, to be distributed throughout Spain. The draw is broadcast on television on the CNN Plus channel at 21.28 p.m.
The ONCE Costa Brava commemorative coupons will be issued in the following order:
- 6th June: Cala Calitjàs – Roses
- 13th June: Cap Roig – Calonge - Sant Antoni
- 20th June: Santa Clotilde Gardens – Lloret de Mar
- 11th July: Portlligat – Cadaqués
- 18th July: Cap de Creus
- 25th July: Platja de Castell – Palamós
- 15th August: Ruins of Empúries – L’Escala
- 15th August: Cala Futadera – Tossa de Mar
The unveiling of the Costa Brava Centenary coupons took place in Lloret de Mar’s Santa Clotilde Gardens on Friday 29th May and was attended by Enric Vilert, President of the Patronat de Turisme Costa Brava Girona, and Teresa Palahí, Territorial Delegate of the ONCE organisation in Catalonia. The two organisations announced an agreement for the publication of a Costa Brava tourism guide in Braille for the spring of 2010. The Patronat de Turisme is ceding the content for the writing of the guide while the ONCE organisation will publish this Costa Brava edition.
