Cooking and traditions

"Together, we have to propose to our visitors an adventure as cultural as gustative and put in dishes the best of our landscapes and of our traditions".

Hervé Lucbéreilh
Former President of the Piémont Oloronais Tourist Office

The GASTRA Project




TheGASTRA Project “traditional gastronomy as valorisation tool of the cultural heritage” offers us the possibility to develop a market sensible to heritage fullnesses. In our territories, the gastronomy is an essential element to the touristy offer but also a wonderful hyphen between our countries.

Today, the touristy offer tends to branch out, the motivation of our travellers about the choice of a destination depends on specific charms proper to the culture of a territory, as for example, the gastronomy.


The aims



  • Succeeding a balanced socio-economic development for a high quality touristy model.
  • Winning new markets and reinforcing the "SUDOESTE" identity.
  • Supporting the Substainable Development of the GASTRA territories.
  • Helping and being implicated in the firms economic development of the territories.
  • Consolidating the cooperation to enhance the touristy and cultural offer.
  • Promoting the qualified formation in this territory.
  • Sharing with inhabitants and visitors similar cultural values.

The actions lead

  • Analyse of the individual situation of each partner.
  • Benchmarking or exchange of experience and gastronomic and cultural know-how.

  • Creation of a network between establishments offering a traditional "cuisine".

  • To create a production GASTRA.

  • To lead formation actions.

  • GASTRA final report.

An event

The GASTRA project wants to make travel gourmet people to make them discover "in vivo" Southern Europe lands, their products and their particular recipes. The first aim of the project consists in promoting the traditional gastronomy to make of it a valorisation tool of the cultural heritage and to develop a high quality touristy offer.

European Days of the Gastronomy in Oloron Sainte-Marie



The project’s partners



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