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In Salou and in this same Torre Vella, in the year 1985, 22 years ago, it was born the first Biennial of enamel art, as the first manifestation and pioneer in the whole Spanish State. It has never been anything similar in Spain.
In a third convocation, in the year 1989, the biennial became International enlarging their horizons to universal.
The name of Salou from then on has strolled for all the mail and customs offices of the world. Hundreds, for not saying thousands, of enamels carefully protected in packages of very varied origins have gone and come of Salou.
After some years of parenthesis of these enamel events due to the segregation Salou / Vila-Seca, the biennial undertake again with different subjects in a fourth, fifth and sixth until the current seventh with the topic of the Nude.
In this occasion they have been received near 300 enamel works from which, after a scrupulous selection it will be presented almost 200 that are those that are chosen for the exhibition “El Món de l’Esmalt” of this year, from a group of more than a hundred enamellers of 22 countries.

Fruit of the successes of these biennial manifestations, in 1991 it was created the MECS (Museum of the Contemporary Enamel Art in Salou) in the Torre Vella.
This pioneer fact, has had a resonance and imitators in other countries (Germany, USA, Holland and Japan) since Museums of Enamel contemporary were practically nonexistent at worldwide.
When Prometeus stole the sacred fire of goods to give it to the humans, a spark should fall in Salou, vestal caretaker that the flames don't extinguish, and today is in charge of promoting and to feed the art of firing glass on metal.