The presenter from Guipuzcoa, Lourdes Maldonado, acted as hostess of the LI National Festival of Exaltation of the Botillo de Bembibre. Born in Irun on May 3, 1973, Lourdes Maldonado, with a degree in Information Sciences from the University of Navarra, has been closely linked to radio and television throughout her professional career, touring the [...]
The chef Sergio Torres was the main speaker at the L National Festival of Exaltation of the Botillo. Together with his brother Javier, he runs the restaurant Hermanos Torres, which in November 2022 ascended to the ‘Olympus’ of gastronomy with the third Michelin star. […]
The actor, comedian, announcer and presenter Luis Larrodera (Zaragoza, September 16, 1973), was the maintainer of the XLIX Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo, which returned after the suspension of the acts in 2021 due to the pandemic. Luis Larrodera began as a radio announcer when he was only 15 years old, a [...]
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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 [...]
