I come to the head of the mall to attract small tourists in Herrera, the beautiful theater for the residents of Loiola to enjoy leading shows, or the specialized center to experience in the Casco Viejo with the most modern Basque cuisine. With the excuse of culture, we should represent the capital a little in the eyes of the visitors coming.

Something similar happened in Marseille in 2013, the year of the Cultural Capitality. Total, what are we going to do with the abandoned and obsolete neighborhoods? These spaces are meant to attract poor foreign people, and we are losing the money of the “clean” people from the capital with what we can build and don’t do in those neighborhoods.

In the French documentary La fête est finie (The festival is over) explain the history of Marseilles, the urban transformation carried out by the European Capitality of Culture 2013, the landscape change of the city, the transformation of the traditional industrial port into a walking area for tourists, the eviction of the old neighborhoods and the displacement of the neighbors to more marginalized places, the increase of the police controls to preserve the genes What was that like? Ah, yes, the gen-tri-fi-ka-zi-o.

I very much liked your comparison with the Trojan horse: You are given the European Capitality of Culture as a beautiful gift, but once in the city...

Director Nicolas Burlaud has translated into Basque the documentary with basic resources within the Donostiaren 2016 ertzean project, created by ARGIA to promote the debate around the Cultural Capitality of Donostia. The first action took place in the Gaztetxe Txantxarreka, in the Old Town, but it will not be the only one, and although many will be offered in Donostia, it is valid for all towns and cities to put the issue of culture and the urban coup on the table.