Otaku tourism boom in Spain
By: Charz
Tags: Anime no Chikara, Ayuntamiento, Cuenca, Franco, Helvetia, Las Casas Colgadas, Mamoru Kanbe, Mangana Tower, Otaku Tourism, Otakuism, Roma, So-Ra-No-Wo-To, Spain, TV Tokyo, Zona roja
Category: Codex, So-Ra-No-Wo-To
Cuenca, City of So Ra No Wo To
The city of Cuenca has experienced since 2008 a sharp increase of Japanese tourists in search of landscapes, heritage and culture that appear in the anime So Ra No Wo To, produced by Nippon TV.
Approximately 4,000 Japanese visited the city in 2010. Some of the tourists even come with a photocopy of the images to see the same locations depicted in the anime series.
Cuenca, una ciudad de manga, Público.es, 21/02/2011
Una serie japonesa despierta la pasión por Cuenca, El Mundo, 13/02/2011
Cuenca City ~ from Zonafandom
Cuenca Town Hall
Cuenca Mangana Tower
Cuenca, Spain
The first decades of the 20th century were as turbulent as in other regions of Spain. There was poverty in rural areas, and the Catholic Church was attacked, with monks, nuns, priests and a bishop of Cuenca, Cruz Laplana y Laguna, being murdered. During the Spanish Civil War Cuenca was part of the republican zone. It was taken in 1938 by General Franco’s troops. During the post-war period this area fell into extreme poverty, causing many people to migrate to more prosperous regions, mainly the Basque Country and Catalonia, but also to other countries such as Germany. The city started to recover slowly from 1960 to 1970, and the town limits went far beyond the gorge to the flat surroundings.
(Wiki)
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