The Bembibre Town Council has awarded the catering and decoration services and the installation of tents for the Botillo Festival to the Bercian companies Hanason Bierzo, SL and Carpalia SL.In October, the tender for these two services was published, considered to be the largest and which the Town Council cannot carry out with its own [...]
The Department of Culture, Festivals, Tourism and Commerce of the Bembibre Town Council has announced the poster and literary competitions for the 52nd National Festival of Exaltation of Botillo, which will be held on February 22. Each category includes a single prize of 500 and 1,000 euros, respectively.It should be noted that the department headed [...]
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 contest. […]
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; with the line [...]
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 the Menéndez Pidal school and [...]
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 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, will take place at 19:00 [...]
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 pinchos(tapas) that promise to be [...]
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 since it began in 1973- [...]
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 hotel and catering sector and [...]
