Municipal councillors and technicians met today to outline the future steps to make the listed establishments more visible.
40% of the municipalities of the Balearic Islands have already joined the Emblemàtics project for the protection of the traditional commercial fabric promoted by the Vice-Presidency through the Directorate General for Trade and the Balearic Islands Institute for Business Innovation (IDI). Since the launch of this programme three years ago, 27 municipalities have decided to catalogue and make their establishments visible, 20 of which have already applied and the rest are in the process of doing so. In addition, another four have applied to join Emblemàtics Balears.
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This morning, councillors and municipal technicians involved in the project met at the Bit Raiguer Centre in Inca to take stock and outline the future steps to make the listed establishments visible. The event was attended by the vice-president and councillor for Energy Transition, Productive Sectors and Democratic Memory, Juan Pedro Yllanes; the director general of Commerce, Miquel Piñol, and the managing director of the IDI, Mariona Luis.
Yllanes recalled the importance of the main objective of Emblemàtics, to protect local commercial activity and, more specifically, that of the most traditional establishments in the municipalities because “thanks to the survival of these establishments, the municipalities can preserve their uniqueness”. He also stressed that “although the initiative focuses on listed shops, the rest of the commercial fabric benefits, as the emblematic ones also act as a driving force and a lure for visitors from inside and outside the Islands”.
Emblemàtics Balears currently has 247 listed shops in 20 municipalities throughout the Balearic Islands: Alaró (4), Alcúdia (8), Algaida (5), Consell (6), Esporles (5), Inca (14), Lloseta (7), Llucmajor (11), Manacor (25), Marratxí (12), Palma (75), Pollença (9), Porreres (8), Santanyí (7), Alaior (5), Ferreries (11), Maó (19), Santa Eulària des Riu (5), Sant Josep de sa Talaia (5), Formentera (San Fernando, 1 and Sant Francesc Xavier, 5). These can now be consulted on the website www.emblematicsbalears.es, the platform through which the project is publicised. In addition, the participating municipalities that are in the process of cataloguing are Campos, Ciutadella, Es Mercadal, Felanitx, Sa Pobla, Santa Maria and Ibiza.
By categories, there are 63 emblematic establishments; 81 with roots and history; 25 with heritage and history; 43 with history; 28 with roots; 3 with roots and heritage, and 2 with heritage. Of the shops listed, 21.5 % are bakeries and confectioners; 19 % are home equipment shops; 8 % are food and drink shops; 17 % are clothing, accessories and footwear shops; 12 % are craft shops; and 6 % are haberdashery shops. The rest are drugstores and hardware shops, jewellery and watches, bookshops, fabrics and other sectors.
It is the local councils that identify the shops in the municipality that meet the requirements to be emblematic, in accordance with an IDI manual that establishes the different categories. Thus, a shop can be classified as rooted (with a singular product or trade), with history (with more than 75 years of life or exceptionally after 50 years) and with heritage (with outstanding interior and exterior heritage elements, as well as with intangible value). In addition, establishments that meet these three categories will be called emblematic.
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