The Museum of Words, located in the town of Quero, is the The Museum of Words, owned by César Egido Serrano Foundation it is responsible for putting into practice the ideas, values, initiatives and objectives of the Foundation, based on the use of dialogue and words as a link between peoples and language as the structure that unites us and singularizes us as human beings. Words and dialogue is the main tool of culture and understanding. 'While words–and dialogue – will be the priority in relations aimed to overcome conflicts, violence will become something exceptional', adds the ideology of the Foundation.
The headquarters of the Museum of Words, a Palace in the heart of the Cervantine path, is the nerve center of its activity. The Museum is a suitable place for the study, exchange and encounter, which serves to support and encourage dialogue between different cultures, ideas, religions and sensibilities.
In addition to that, on the 9th of May, at 18.30 p.m., the President of Castilla La Mancha, Spain, María Dolores de Cospedal, will give in Quero the first prize and the three consolation prizes of the II Edition of the Flash Fiction Competition Museum of Words, organized by the César Egido Serrano Foundation accompanied by a large number of personalities from politics, communication and Spanish society, as well as Ambassadors from different countries.
The winner in this edition has been the valencian Rosa Pastor Carballo, with "The soup" and the three second prizes are for the Croatian Sonja Smolec, the Egyptian Sherif Samir Eid Awwad and the Israeli Roy Daya.
Two days earlier, the winners will tour some areas of Castilla La Mancha to witness the journey of the three cultures in Toledo and the route of Don Quixote.
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www.museodelapalabra.com
www.fundacioncesaregidoserrano.com
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