Invited by DIPLOCAT, the group included reporters from Germany, France, Sweden, Croatia, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania

To make Catalonia's Day of Books and Roses on 23 April better known around the world and in parallel with the internationalization campaign labelled #BooksAndRoses, DIPLOCAT has been inviting foreign journalists for several years now so they can see and experience firsthand the atmosphere of the day. This year the delegation included ten journalists from Germany, France, Sweden, Croatia, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

During their stay, the journalists met with writers and journalists, with Catalan PEN representatives, with the management team of the cultural Ramon Llull Institute, with the secretary general of DIPLOCAT, Laura Foraster i Lloret, and with theSecretary for the Government's Foreign Action of the Government of Catalonia, Miquel Royo, among others. They also visited the headquarters of the Manifesta 15 project, the bookstore Ona Llibres, where they met with the director Iolanda Batallé, and the Barcelona Athenaeum, where they greeted the president Isona Passola. The program also included a concert at the iconic Palau de la Música Catalana.

On Sunday, at the conclusion of the three-day programme and after walking around Barcelona surrounded by books and roses, the journalists were impressed by the dimensions of this tradition and by the number of people of all ages who were on the street, and they agreed that they had never had a similar experience related to literature.