FESTA DO BOTELO DO BARCO DE VALDEORRAS

The more than 250 diners are already tasting the bottles of this third edition of the Bottle Festival in the city of A Coruña. The restaurant Mirador de San Pedro was filled with followers of the sausage king of Valdeorres winter. After the cocido soup and the “maravallas” empanada, it was time for Don Botelo, accompanied as always by cachelos and vegetables. The wines present in this edition are the Godellos from Godeval and D´Berna and the red from Cooperativa…

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Fair of various products in Campo da Festa on Paseo do Malecón do Barco. Open January 23 and 24 all day.

The cook and blogger Rocío Garrido offered at the “Obradoiro de Pinchos de Botelo” ideas for eating botelo in a different way than the traditional one. The workshop was launched on the afternoon of Monday 18 January with the collaboration of Restaurante Piquiño which offered its facilities and the wineries: Godeval, Eladio Santalla Paradelo, Roandi and Cooperativa Jésús Nazareno which contributed the wines for subsequent harmonization with the prepared dishes. Twenty people, including hoteliers and fans, took part in this…

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Six restaurants in the town offer botelo as a main dish on their weekend menu. Here we offer the menus and prices of some of them so that you can reserve your table. TAPERIA AGARIMO Cooked croquettes Toss it with cabbage, chickpeas, potatoes and sausages. Bottles of Serra da Lastra Sausages. Varied dessert and coffee. Wines: Mencía Valdouro and Godello Viña Abad Menu price: 25€/ person Reservations phone number: 988 32 19 35 RESTAURANTE PIQUIÑO Primeiros: Empanada de boletus con…

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To our great surprise, we are sorry to inform you that all 950 tickets were sold out in 45 minutes this afternoon. This is good news for everyone, we thank you for the great welcome and invite you to make reservations at the restaurants in town. The restaurants: Piquiño, Agarimo, Al Natural, Casa Galaica, Restaurante Fernando III and Pazo do Castro will be the ones offering the menu on their cards. Those interested will have to make a reservation at…

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“I was the first” that would be the phrase that sums up the work of Lula A Pulpeira, Obdulia Fidalgo Real, related to the Festa do Botelo. For 15 years, she was the person in charge of having everything ready so that diners could enjoy the bottle on the day of their party in Vila do Barco. “It was very hard, we were all crazy for two days to get everything ready” explains Lula, who this year will see the…

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On the 23rd, the official date of the XVI Botelo no Barco Festival, six restaurants will offer visitors botelo on their menus. A menu that will be repeated the next day to complete the gastronomic weekend in the village. The goal is to have more options than the official food at the Calabagueiros pavilion on Saturday to taste this typical dish in the village, which is based on the stomach of the pig stuffed with marinated ribs and then smoked….

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The poster announcing the XVI Festa do Botelo is already visible in the streets of the village of Barco. This year’s design was carried out by the designer Luis Davila “O Bichero” and shows one of his usual characters with a bottle in a fountain ready to serve. With this design, the party posters and also the image for the t-shirts that will be on sale on the day of the bottle party, the 23rd, both at the Teatro Lauro…

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This year the XVI Festa do Botelo will have one more complementary activity with the launch of the I Foliada and Cantos de Taberna in which 7 musical groups will participate. The party will begin on Saturday the 23rd, once the botelo announcement has been read, with a procession, around 1:30 p.m., from the Lauro Olmo Theater to the place where the botelo meal will be held in the Calabagueiros pavilion. Then the groups will liven up the food and…

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The Department of Culture and Education of the Barco City Council presented yesterday the program of activities for the XVI FESTA DO BOTELO that will be held on January 23 in the town of Barco. This product consisting of filling the stomach of the pig with composted ribs and later smoked, which is consumed cooked, has been protected as a Protected Geographical Indication since 2009. In 2014 the Botelo do Barco Festival was declared a Festival of Tourist Interest in…

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