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The Galicia–North Portugal Euroregion boasts the highest number of hot springs of any area on the Iberian Peninsula. This chapter highlights how two bordering towns gifted with about a dozen of mineral hot water springs–Chaves in northern Portugal, and Verín in southern Galicia–started to work together on a more intensive basis and joined to create the Eurocity Chaves-Verín (ECV), in 2007. In 2008 the strategic plan privileged water as a catalyst for regional development and adopted the brand name “Eurocity of Water”. It is our aim, then, to perceive the role of water in the programs/projects in and around ECV, either with public or private funding. Drawing on an analysis of the ECV website, as well as programs and projects operating in the ECV territory, we conclude that water is central in many of these programs/projects, and that it has a unifying and sustainable role in the region, as it joins not only endogenous resources and health and spa services with tourism, but also research and professional education. Strengthening the cluster education/research to promote the sustainability of water-projects seems to be a distinctive feature of ECV, in line with strategic trends in Europe and specifically in the Eixo Atlântico and the Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion.
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Joukes, V., Costa, I. (2015). Eurocity Chaves-Verín: Regional Development Strengthened by Spa-Linked Research and Professional Education. In: Peris-Ortiz, M., Álvarez-García, J. (eds) Health and Wellness Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11490-3_4
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