New logo
The Bembibre´s Festival Nacional for the Exaltación of Botillo has just released its logo. It is the unified image for branding, encompassing all the cultural and gastronomic activities organized within the framework of the Festival.
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The Festival
The Festival
Gastronomy, culture and tradition
One of the most important gastronomic events in the Spanish northwest, which has been recognized as a Festival of National Tourist Interest
Bembibre’s Botillo Festival have been an annual gastronomic and cultural event since 1973. It enlightens the bond of this village population with this meat-stuffed pork intestine preparation.
Botillo is a meat-stuffed dish typical from the county of El Bierzo, in the Spanish province of León. Its main ingredients are the pork ribs and tail. It can also include the pig’s tongue, cheeks, shoulder blade, and backbone, but never exceeding 20% of the total volume.
Botillo is a kind of embutido (cold meat) normally consumed in the winter season for its high amount of calories. It is a product that has remained in popular culture as an emblematic food and tradition coming from the ancestors of the region.
Nowadays, this product is endorsed by the official logo of the Protected Geographical Indication. A sales description that certifies its quality of production in a specific area, which coincides with the limits of El Bierzo county.
With this background, the celebration of Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo keeps its popular culture with the elation of this delicacy in a party that has become one of the most important gastronomic events in north-western Spain. Not surprisingly, botillo has the capacity to bring together more than a thousand people in each edition.
Cultural event and gala dinner
El desarrollo del Festival consta de dos partes: por un lado, el acto institucional y cultural, que incluye el discurso de mantenedor y, por otro, la degustación del embutido en una gran cena de gala.
The main act also includes the, often musical, performance of groups or artists recognized on the national scene. Bembibre’s Botillo Festival has been attended, among others, by artists such as José Mercé, Bertín Osborne, Café Quijano, Shayla Dúrcal, Carlos Núñez, Diana Navarro, el Consorcio, etc.
After dinner, the event finishes with a ball to end this celebration that continues to gain followers every year.
Mantenedores
Latest editions of Bembibre’s Botillo Festival
Chairpeople in the latest editions
Present
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La Garimba wins the contest of the “Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo”
The “Botillo freestyle” pincho of La Garimba has won the first prize in the XIII Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo. This was decided by the jury, meeting yesterday at the house of cultures, which incorporated the score of the popular vote to decide the six best rated pinchos in the [...]
Gala of the LI Bembibre´s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo
The Bembibre´s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo has added to the 51st edition with an event in which the role of women is emphasised in all aspects. With the hostess, Lourdes Maldonado and the musical performance of Merche; the winner of the Literary Contest, which this year was [...]
Yolanda Navarro wins the literary contest of the Botillo Festival with the story “Ne me quitte pas”
Yolanda Navarro González from Bembibre has been elected winner of the literary contest of the LI National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo with the story "Ne me quitte pas". Yolanda Navarro, born in Palencia in 1965, has lived in Bembibre since she was four years old. She works at [...]
More than 8,000 “pinchos” of “botillo” sold during the first weekend of the event
The restaurateurs of Bembibre have reported a significant figure: during the first weekend of the Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo have sold more than 8,000 pinchos made with the typical sausage, noting a significant increase over previous editions. […]
The Botillo Cultural Week advances with the screening of the documentary video “Si ka badu, ka ta biradu” (If you don’t leave, you can’t come back)
The House of Cultures of Bembibre will screen this Monday, January 29th, the documentary video “Si ka badu, ka ta biradu” (If you do not leave, you can not return). This screening, which is part of the activities of the Cultural Week of the National Festival of Exaltation of Botillo, [...]
XIII Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo with 14 participating establishments
This Friday will be the start of the XIII Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo, to be held on January 26th, 27th and 28th, and February 2nd, 3rd and 4rd. On this occasion 14 establishments of Bembibre will meet in this event to demonstrate their mastery in the gastronomic creation with [...]
The Botillo Festival website launches its Portuguese version
The Festival Nacional de Exaltación del Botillo takes another step forward in its commitment to inclusion and multicultural recognition: the translation of its official website into Portuguese. In this way, its official information channel relates the history of the event -which has been running for more than half a century [...]
Approval of the rules for the Botillo Pinchos Competition
The Sectorial Council of Commerce has approved today the rules of the Contest of “Pinchos del Botillo”, which will take place in the framework of the XIII Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo on the last weekend of January and first weekend of February. The document has been agreed with the [...]
