The municipalities of Castro Marim, in Portugal, Tejeda, in Spain, and Alleins, in France, have joined in a twinning around the almond as a common heritage, announced the Portuguese municipality today. The municipality of Castro Marim annually hosts the Almond Blossom Festival in Alta Mora, and the work carried out since the event was created by the Recreational, Cultural and Sports Association of Friends of Alta Mora (ARCDAA) in 2020, has allowed the creation of ties that are now reinforced with this twinning, explained the municipality in a statement. According to the municipality, this was the impetus for the creation of a European almond network and conditions have been created to formalize a twinning process between the three towns, with the aim of jointly developing "cooperation and valorization projects of the Mediterranean and European territories associated with the almond." The Castro Marim City Council said that the protocol signed between the officials of the three ...