Catalonia: turism promotion via Instagram (June 11-16, 2013)

The regional media informed that the world's most followed photographers on Instagram will be in Catalonia for a few days as guests of the regional tourism agency to promote the country, using the hastag #catalunyaexperiencetrip. This is already the second time for this kind of social media initiative; last year there came especially influential tourism bloggers. Apart from Instagram, the campaign can also be followed on Twitter, facebook or through a web.
One of the participants is Thomas Kakareko from Berlin, Germany, with 340.000 "followers". Another one is the Japanese Hiroaki Fukuda with more than 120.000 followers. He is described as a specialist in relating architecture to people. Another participant is Carol Peña designated by Instagram as the best-known Spanish user.
The ten instagram photographers who sum a total of nearly 1.4 M followers will follow a route from Barcelona to the Ebro delta region, the Costa Daurada ("Gold Coast"), and the Sònar (electronic music) festival.

[The original piece of news was published here.]

Some advice by Fukuda and others for your own instagraming on Conde Nast's page here.

June 11, 2013: 175th anniversary of Marià Fortuny, painter

The battle of Tetuan (source: commons.wikimedia.org)

For more information on Marià Fortuny (1838-1874), please visit the Wikipedia article.