Marbella hosts second Kuwaiti-Spanish festival

The second Kuwaiti-Spanish festival will be held in the city of Marbella, the Kuwait News Agency reported.

The event will run from July 30 until Aug. 1 in the Garden of Europe in Puerto Banus.

Kuwaiti Ambassador to Spain Khalifa Al-Kharafi, Spanish Ambassador to Kuwait Miguel Aguillar and several senior officials from both countries will attend the opening ceremony.

Marbella Municipality representative, Remedios Bocanegra said,“This event seeks to strengthen the close and long relations between Marbella and Kuwait since the late 1970s of the last century.”

Bocanegra said that the event would promote the gastronomy, folklore, culture and art of Kuwait, while emphasizing the significance of the Kuwaiti community in the city.

Abrar Al-Masoud, chairman of the event’s organizing company, Future International Group, said that the event would highlight Kuwaiti-Spanish relations in the political, economic and cultural spheres.

Al-Masoud thanked the municipality of Marbella for their cooperation in hosting the festival, which ran its first event in 2016. She also thanked the sponsors of the event, Al-Anba newspaper, Kuwait Petroleum Company, Kuwait Airways and Bani Hafeth Real Estates Company.