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Xàbia museum receives record number of visitors The Soler Blasco Municipal Museum in Xàbia attracted almost 24,550 visitors to its facilities during 2017, a record number which beats previous records, surpassing the 2016 number by 1,425 and demonstrates a continued interest in the town’s history and development by both residents and visitors. With regards to a tourism attraction, the percentage of visitors from other European countries (and to a lesser extent other countries across the world) is very significant with 6,446 foreign visitors representing some 26.7% of the total, a rise of more than two points on 2016. Local visitors accounted for 4,434 visits, 18% of the total, with 10.4% coming from the Comunidad Valenciana and 45.2% from the rest of Spain. The municipal museum highlighted to work of the ‘Asociación de Amigos de Mvsev de Xàbia (AMVX)’ for its contributions to making the venue a continuing success. Since its formation in 2013, its members have managed to translate all the information in the museum, including the panels and information videos, into English and more recently into French which helps foreign visitors to better understand the content of the exhibition. For full story see: Javeamigos Culture committee briefed on new projects for 2018 and the Auditorium Apart form the programme of cultural events, the briefing included information on the new auditorium, which should be completed by the beginning of 2019. They were alos considering