Chairwoman 2020

Chairman 2019

Sergio Martín Herrera is a journalist, directly linked to the public entity Radio Televisión Española Ha trabajado como reportero en la versión radiofónica de «España Directo» y ha colaborado en varios programas como “La Noche Menos Pensada”, “Las Mañanas de Radio 1″, “El Tranvía”, “Buenos días, “La Ola” y “El Navegador”. […]

Bembibre’s Botillo Festival combined sports and gastronomy in 2017 thanks to its mantenedor, the former coach and former footballer Vicente del Bosque. […]

María Josefa García Cirac (Benavente, 14th July 1969) member of the Spanish Popular Party. She was the president of Las Cortes de Castilla y León between 2011 and 2015 and Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Government of Castilla y León in between 2015-2019. […]

Álvaro Caboalles, an actor from Ponferrada, played the role of the Romantic writer Enrique Gil y Carrasco in Bembibre’s Botillo Festival in 2015. This edition wanted to commemorate the bicentennial of the author’s birth. An event that left to the character the role of being the mantenedor of this edition. This change in format was [...]

The socialist politician -already retired- Paco Vázquez served as chairman of the XLII Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo. He was mayor of La Coruña, president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, member of the Spanish Parliament (1977-2000) and Senator (2000-2006). Likewise, he was elected Ambassador of Spain to the Holy [...]

The famous TV chef Sergio Fernández Luque was mantenedor (chairman) of Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo on its XLI edition the 2nd of February 2014. He had a space in Las Mañanas de la 1 called “Saber cocinar”. There he became to be well known. He was also a cooking teacher in [...]

Ángel María Villar Llona (Bilbao, January 21st, 1950) is a former soccer player and Spanish sports leader, vice-president of UEFA, vice-president of FIFA, and president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation since 1988. However, we must not forget his career in sports at Athletic Club and and internationaly.  He scored three goals in his 22 [...]

The Actor and comedian Leonardo González (Leo Harlem), was one of the protagonists of the successful TV show El Club del Chiste. Harlem was mantenedor (chairman) of Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo on its XXXIX edition. He was born in Matarrosa del Sil, but he grown up in Valladolid. Leo Harlem, who [...]