The small town of Ubrique (17,000 inhabitants), at the foot of the mountains to the north of the Spanish province of Cádiz, may no longer have its own tannery, but it is still famous for leather and leather goods.

To celebrate the importance of leather to the town’s economy, a special exhibition will take place for the fifth year running at one of Ubrique’s most famous monuments, a former Capuchin monastery dating back to the seventeenth century. This year’s event will take place on October 4 and 5.

For the first time, the 2007 exhibition will include an award for the most eye-catching leather object on display, based on design and quality. There will be 15 exhibitors taking part in all, 12 of them from Ubrique. The organisers—the Cádiz chamber of commerce and the export promotions agency for the region of Andalusia—have already distributed more than 1000 catalogues to buyers in the United States, Russia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and France and are confident of a healthy attendance at the show.