La Xefla
Discover how we preserve L'Hospitalet's gastronomic tradition with Virtual Reality.
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is a Catalan city of almost 300,000 inhabitants where culture and tradition have always played a very important role.
La Xefla has become one of the city's new great cultural and gastronomic symbols, created to recover popular memory and represent the diverse, open and community-minded essence of the municipality.
Innovative outreach
L’Hospitalet City Council was looking for a new way of bringing the history and preparation of La Xefla closer to the public, especially younger generations. The challenge was to turn a traditional recipe into an attractive, educational and participatory experience, able to connect with people of all ages.
The solution had to respect the essence of the dish, explain its preparation step by step and, at the same time, add an innovative element that would enrich visitors' experience during the event.
Our technological contribution
To meet this challenge, INVELON designed an immersive Virtual Reality experience lasting approximately four minutes in which users could virtually prepare the authentic La Xefla recipe.
Thanks to VR technology, children and adults stepped into a virtual kitchen where, in an interactive and guided way, they discovered each of the steps in preparing the dish: from selecting and combining the ingredients to the complete cooking process. The experience was conceived with an educational and accessible approach, allowing anyone, regardless of their age or culinary knowledge, to learn the recipe in a dynamic, entertaining and memorable way.
This initiative shows how immersive technologies can become a powerful tool for preserving cultural heritage, bringing local traditions to new audiences and creating new forms of interaction between citizens and their history.
More than 300 attendees
With the aim of continuing to promote and raise awareness of this gastronomic heritage, L’Hospitalet City Council held a new edition of the GastroTeca on 6 June, an event open to all residents that brought together tastings, show cooking, workshops, music and innovative experiences around La Xefla at the La Farga site.
As part of this commitment to combining tradition and innovation, INVELON was the company responsible for developing a unique Virtual Reality experience, allowing attendees to become the protagonists in preparing the city's emblematic dish.
More than 300 attendees, including children, young people and adults, had the chance to put on the VR headsets and virtually prepare their own Xefla.
With this project, INVELON once again demonstrates the potential of Virtual Reality as a tool for cultural transformation, able to turn a traditional recipe into an immersive experience that generates participation and allows a city's gastronomic legacy to keep reaching future generations.