The National Festival of Exaltation of Botillo will formalize next February 22 a new twinning protocol during the institutional act that will take place in the City Hall of Bembibre, before the Gala. This time it will be with the House of León in Asturias, based in Gijón. […]
The journalist Sonsoles Ónega, winner of the Planeta Prize 2023 for her novel “Las hijas de la criada” (The Maid's Daughters), will be the moderator of the LII National Festival of Exaltation of the Botillo de Bembibre, to be held on February 22 at the Manuel Marqués Patarita pavilion. She is a consecrated professional of [...]
The Patronato Municipal de Fiestas de Bembibre will put on sale on Monday, January 20, 2025, 1,400 tickets for the dinner of the Festival Nacional de Exaltación del Botillo. The first 1,200 tickets will be sold online on January 20 and 21, while the remaining 200 tickets will be reserved for sale at the Cultural [...]
The photographer and designer Susana Gomes, from Bembibe, has been the winner of the Poster Contest of the National Festival of Exaltation of the Botillo. The jury has chosen this work that presents a different format in which the botillo is represented by a heart. "Curando pasiones" (Healing passions) is the title of the poster [...]
The Bembibre Town Council has awarded the catering and decoration services and the installation of tents for the Botillo Festival to the Bercian companies Hanason Bierzo, SL and Carpalia SL.In October, the tender for these two services was published, considered to be the largest and which the Town Council cannot carry out with its own [...]
The Department of Culture, Festivals, Tourism and Commerce of the Bembibre Town Council has announced the poster and literary competitions for the 52nd National Festival of Exaltation of Botillo, which will be held on February 22. Each category includes a single prize of 500 and 1,000 euros, respectively.It should be noted that the department headed [...]
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. […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. […]
