Victoriano Crémer Alonso was mantenedor in 1993. Poet and writer, he lived almost all his life in León. During his youth, he worked as a newspaper salesman, an apothecary boy, a printer, an announcer and even an underground journalist. He published his first poem at the age of 16 in the weekly Crónica de León. [...]

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, well known Spanish politician from León, was mantenedor of Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo in February 1992. He found his way in politics after listening to Felipe González on a politic speech in 1976 before Franco’s death and the legalization of democratic political parties in Spain. His first contact [...]

Consuelo Álvarez de Toledo degree in Law and Journalism. She was chairwoman at Bembibre’s Botillo Festival on February 2nd 1991. She started working in the legal field advising different companies. Affiliated to PSOE, she directed since 1976 El Socialista, the official press publication of the political party.  The publication aim was to become a means [...]

Mantenedor 1990

José María Aznar, well known Spanish politician, was mantenedor of Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo on its XVII edition in 1989.Back then he was the president of the Government of de Castilla y León.

Emiliano Alonso Sánchez-Lombas, economist and politician from León, former president of the León Provincial Council between 1971 and 1979 and later president of the León Chamber of Commerce. He was chairman in the XVI Bembibre’s Botillo Festival on February 6th, 1988. Sánchez-Lombas studied in León and then went to learn Economics in Madrid. He was [...]

The writer and journalist Emilio Romero Gómez was mantenedor of Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo on its XV edition. He was born in Arévalo, Ávila, in 1917. Very active in politics and taking part. He was one of the most representative Spanish journalists during Franco’s government. He founded the newspaper El Imparcial, [...]

A native of Villafranca, the writer Antonio Pereira was mantenedor of the XIV Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo. Born in 1923, the author himself highlighted his passion for reading from a very young age, as a teenager. He also started writing, poems the most, at a Young age. Although he would have [...]

The composer and orchestra director Odón Alonso Ordás, was mantenedor of Bembibre’s National Festival for the Exaltation of Botillo on its 13th edition. He is one of the most important orchestra directors of the second half of the 20th century in Spain. Born in La Bañeza, he combined his musical training at the Superior Conservatory [...]

Chairman 1984