FESTA DO BOTELO DO BARCO DE VALDEORRAS

The 18th Festa do Botelo completes its program on Día Grande with the performance of the Aramio orchestra. The music will start playing around half past six in the afternoon in Praza Andrés de Prada. It will be the way to digest the bottle and be able to start the party which will then continue in the bars with the III Foliada Cantos de Taberna. The Aramio group belongs to the town of Gondomar in the province of Pontevedra. In…

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The Mayor of Barco, Alfredo García and the Councilor for Culture and Education, Margarida Pizcueta were in charge of presenting the full program of the XVIII Boat Festival that will be held in Barco on January 20 and 21. This year’s announcer will be the first organizer of this event, José María Rodríguez Ramos, who started this gastronomic party when he held the position of Councilor for Culture. The current councillor, Margarida Pizcueta, pointed out that “thanks to him, a…

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The third Festa do Botelo in the city of Vigo will be held this Saturday, March 11. The place of this new edition will be the restaurant of Hotel Coia, just like in the celebration of previous years. The Council of Barco de Valdeorras (Ourense) is organizing this new Botelo festival in the olive town to continue the dissemination of the product king of Valdeorras winter. The botelo, consisting of the pig’s stomach stuffed with marinated ribs, smoked and consumed…

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On Saturday afternoon, after tasting the bottle in the municipal pavilion of Calabagueiros and in the six restaurants that offer it as a menu in the town, it will be time to digest it to the beat of music. Six groups known as “tavern singers” will perform in 12 Barco bars to set up a party. Last year was a very well-received event and this experience will be repeated with the performance of groups from Barco, Trives, A Pobra de…

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The Department of Culture and Education of the Barco Council made public today the names of Carlos Blanco and Luís Davila as heralds of the XVII FESTA DO BOTELO. The party, which will be held on January 21 in the town of Barco, takes a step further for its promotion outside the borders of the Valdeorresa region with the election, for the first time, of heralds who are not originally from the town. In this case, the actor Carlos Blanco…

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