• There will be a bar service at the Mar d’en Manassa  and Fòrum Romà concerts.  In the other spaces there will be no bar service.
• Drinks and food are not allowed on the premises.

• At the concerts scheduled at the Roman Forum of Empúries you can park inside the venue until the squares are filled. There is a car park outside the premises. In both cases it is free.
• In the activities scheduled in L'Escala, you will have to look for the public or private car park closest to the spaces where the performances take place.

The way we move is crucial to people’s quality of life. For this reason, moving sustainably contributes to improving air quality and combating pollution. For this reason, from the Portalblau Festival we ask you, whenever possible, to travel on foot or on non-polluting transport systems. In this way you will be helping to have cleaner and healthier air.

L'Escala is a tourist destination that offers a great diversity of proposals to make for the whole family and for all tastes and needs. Through the visitlescala.com website or by visiting the L’Escala Tourist Office, you can find very useful information, both on accommodation and on the commercial lines available to you.

Take advantage of the Portalblau Festival to spend a few days in L'Escala.  Vacances Costa Brava has houses and apartments, and the Hotel Rallye L'Escala is perfect for relaxing, they are lovers of nature, culture and gastronomy.

• L’Escala Tourist Office Tel. +34 972 77 06 03 – [email protected]
• Empúries. Museum of Archeology of Catalonia (MAC): 972 77 02 08
• General information about the Portalblau Festival: [email protected]
• Incidents with the purchase of tickets: [email protected]

Culture is one of the clearly defining elements of the human race. Music and art, in all their expressions, are necessary, essential and very effective elements in the transmission of human values. Agents involved in the organization of festivals have an opportunity to carry out this task. A task that manifests the importance of culture as an element of social cohesion.

The Portalblau Festival is culturally, socially, and environmentally committed festival. Since 2020 it has been actively working to integrate the 2030 Agenda and to approve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), creating space for connections and commitment.

3_To ensure healthy living and promote wellbeing for all at all ages. The Festival will donate part of the proceeds to the Multiple Sclerosis Foundations. Resources destined to guarantee care for the person who has just been diagnosed, as well as the neuro-rehabilitations series and support for research to continue making progress in slowing down the progression of MS and improving the quality of life of people with this disease.

4_Quality education. Portalblau is launching a training course for young people aged 16 to 20 who want to learn about how to organize a festival. The students will then have the opportunity to do an internship at the festival this summer.

5_ Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but the necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. To achieve real and effective equality, it is necessary to create possible situations that serve as references for our immediate environment. The Festival actively works to promote equality and diversity.

7_Affordable and non-polluting energy. The Festival will contract renewable energy as a source of energy in some of its services.

8_Decent work and economic growth. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all. The Festival will create a job bank to hire young people from l'Escala.

12_Responsible production and consumption. Measures will be promoted to minimise the environmental impact of the Festival in order to reduce the ecological footprint. Substantially reducing the generation of waste.

13_Climate action. Adopt urgent measures to combat climate change and the effects of this. Measures will be promoted to minimise the environmental impact of the Festival in order to reduce the ecological footprint. Creating spaces for raising awareness and promoting mechanisms to increase the capacity for effective planning and management in relation to climate change.

TRAINING SESSIONS

This year, as a new feature, the Portalblau Festival, with the support of the Youth Department of L'Escala Town Council, is starting two training days for young people aged 16 to 20 who want to learn how to organise a festival.

The sessions will introduce the general aspects that are necessary to organise a festival, the professionals involved, the heat chain and some of the most important parts that must be taken into account in the design and production of a festival.

• There will be two training days of 3 hours each on 11 and 18 June and the possibility of an internship at the festival this summer. At the end of the training, students will receive a certificate from the Portalblau Festival.
• To take part in the training sessions, a letter of motivation must be sent to [email protected] before 31 May.
• The training will take place at the Espai Jove L'Esbotzada in l'Escala.