Sitges (Catalonia) and gay carnival: tourism and its new pilgrimages
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tourism, carnival, gay, pilgrimage, identityAbstract
In this paper, I explain the development of a tourist village in the Catalonian coast (northeast of Spain) as a gay destination during carnival times during the month February. My intention is to in- clude my reflections in this paper in the symbolic – cognitive studies about tourism and I want also to reflect about the idea of the constructions in gay culture of different places all around the world of lei- sure or/and pilgrimage. Sitges is a scale gay destination really knowledge in Western Europe during the hole year, but during carnival times, it’s convert in a gay pilgrimage in different ways and there is have been crated during those last years gays places of leisure in the village that make me create the idea of the existence of a gay Carnival in Sitges Carnival. Because we cannot consider the gay carnival inde- pendent of what I call Sitges Carnival, I explain also the development and the historical conflicts between those two carnivals, and how those separate spaces have been created..
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