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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 contest. […]

February 15th, 2024|

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; with the line of Chronicling the role of cape verdian women; and the inclusion of the mayor and the Councillor [...]

February 15th, 2024|

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 the Menéndez Pidal school and has an outstanding career in the cultural field, especially in theatre. In 2004 she was one of [...]

February 15th, 2024|

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. […]

February 15th, 2024|

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, will take place at 19:00 hours with free admission. […]

February 15th, 2024|

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 pinchos(tapas) that promise to be spectacular. […]

February 15th, 2024|

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 since it began in 1973- with the importance of the Portuguese immigrant community during the second half of the 20th century. [...]

February 15th, 2024|

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 hotel and catering sector and presents two important new features which differ from previous years. […]

January 11th, 2024|

The Botillo Festival will be twinned in 2024 with the Casa de León in A Coruña

The National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo will formalize next February 3th a new twinning protocol taking advantage of the institutional act that will take place in the City Council of Bembibre. This time it will be with the Casa de León in La Coruña, the only Leonese community in neighbouring Galicia. This twinning will achieve a new link between the National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo, and what it [...]

January 11th, 2024|

Lourdes Maldonado will be the mantenedora-chairwoman and Master of Ceremonies of the LI Bembibre´s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo

The journalist from Guipuzcoa, Lourdes Maldonado, will be the mantenedora-chairwoman of the 51st edition of the Bembibre´s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo to be held on February 3th in the Manuel Marqués Patarita pavilion. Since last September she has been presenting “Las tardes de RNE” (The afternoons of RNE). […]

January 11th, 2024|

Tickets for the Botillo National Exaltation Festival dinner will go on sale on January 2

The Bembibre Municipal Festival Board will put tickets for sale on Tuesday, January 2, 2024, for the dinner of the National Festival of Exaltation of Botillo. Following the usual procedure in recent years, the first 1,000 tickets will be sold online. The sales period will continue from January 2 at 9 in the morning to January 5 through the gestionentradas.com platform. In order to facilitate the purchase, the official page of the [...]

January 11th, 2024|

The Botillo Festival presents its official logo to reinforce the identity of the event.

Today we are in luck! The Botillo Festival has a new logo in which it intends to reinforce its identity within and beyond the local area. The main objective is to enhance the event and achieve its best tourist standing with a unified image in all activities. This logo establishes the brand of the National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo which, in practice, has existed since the first editions. However, it [...]

January 11th, 2024|

Poster and literary contests for the LI National Festival of Exaltation of the Botillo are announced

The Department of Culture, Festivities, Tourism and Commerce of the City Council of Bembibre has announced the poster and literary contests for the LI National Festival of Exaltation of Botillo, to be held on February 3. Any person may participate and will be eligible for a single prize of 500 and 1,000 euros, respectively for each modality. […]

October 25th, 2023|

A Record-Breaking Botillo Festival to Celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the Grandest Gastronomic Event

The Gala of the National Festival of Botillo Exaltation in Bembibre paid homage, with all honors, to its most emblematic sausage. And it featured a pavilion filled with an audience from the very beginning and a record-breaking dinner. Both the mayor, Silvia Cao, and the councilor for Culture, Festivities, Tourism, and Commerce, Belén Martín, reflected on this, expressing their pride for such a emblematic celebration that has been accompanied by a series [...]

February 12th, 2023|

“El onírico entomólogo”, by Javier Abelardo González Quintana from Palencia, receives the award for the literary contest of Botillo

The Jury of the Literary Contest of the National Festival of Botillo Exaltation in Bembibre, which met extraordinarily last Friday, has chosen the story "El onírico entomólogo", by Javier Abelardo González Quintana (Palencia, 1969), as the winner of this edition. González Quintana is a member of the Body of Procedural Management of the Judiciary Administration, serving as Legal Counsel at the Court of Cártama, province of Málaga. He is the author of [...]

February 10th, 2023|

The XII Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo (Pinchos Days) have their winners

The 'Botillo 2.3' pintxo by O Pulpeiro has taken the first prize in the Botillo Pintxos Days, according to the evaluation of the jury that met this very evening. After the decision, the awards ceremony took place for the top six finalists of this twelfth edition of the competition. The winner received a plaque and a voucher for two people at Spa&Food, at The Rock Suite Spa. The top three are completed [...]

February 8th, 2023|

The ONCE coupon promotes the 50th Anniversary of the National Festival of Botillo Exaltation in Bembibre

The ONCE coupon for Saturday, February 11th, features the 50th Anniversary of the National Festival of Botillo Exaltation, celebrated in Bembibre on that date. Five and a half million coupons will spread awareness of this event in the Bierzo region, declared a National Tourist Interest Festival. […]

February 1st, 2023|

The Bembibre City Council encourages participation in the XII Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo (Pinchos Days)

Next Friday, January 20, restaurateurs who so wish may formalize their registration in the Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo (Pinchos Days), which include the characteristic Pinchos Contest to recognize the best creations made with the typical sausage from Berciano. This twelfth edition has as novelties the economic contribution of 100 euros to support the participants and the suppression of the requirement of ornamentation of the premises. […]

January 17th, 2023|
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