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Last Saturday, March 4, on the occasion of the International Women's Day March 8th and taking advantage of the fact that we are in the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, a editatona to women travelers and explorers to make visible the absence of content related to them on Wikipedia. From 11:00 am, participants and organizers gathered in the Alameda 1 room of Medialab Prado to talk about the history of women who wanted to know the world.

By having the support of the Oxfam Intermon Home Program, led by Zinnia Quirós (@zinniaqc), we were able to give the attendees books by women travelers of the Casiopea Publishing House: The forest and me, Pedaling the world, Travellers of legend, All roads lead to Africa, All roads lead to IndiaIn addition, thanks to the support of the General Directorate of Equality between Women and Men of the City of Madrid we were able to have a snack to regain strength during the day.

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As in each editatona, we invite an expert in the subject that we are going to deal with. On this occasion, we have the historian Pilar Tejera, creator of the portal mujeresviajeras.com and author of Legend Travelers, Amazing Adventures of Victorian Travelers a book dedicated to nineteenth-century female travelers, which told us about pioneering female explorers and the invisibility of women in this field.