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 communication. She began her career in the CNN+ channel, which opened the doors to the television channel [...]

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 Center. GENERAL INFORMATION Sales format: online and in person at the physical point of sale (Casa de [...]

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 of the LII National Festival of Exaltation of the Botillo, a work presented by Susana Gomes from [...]

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 resources.Using outsourcing to professionals in the sector, the call for tenders attracted a single bidder for the [...]

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 by Belén Martín increased the prize money three years ago by 40% compared to previous editions.The poster [...]

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 of Chronicling the role of cape verdian women; and the inclusion of the mayor and the Councillor [...]

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 has an outstanding career in the cultural field, especially in theatre. In 2004 she was one of [...]

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. […]

The House of Cultures of Bembibre will screen this Monday, January 29th, the documentary video “Si ka badu, ka ta biradu” (If you do not leave, you can not return). This screening, which is part of the activities of the Cultural Week of the National Festival of Exaltation of Botillo, will take place at 19:00 hours with free admission. […]

This Friday will be the start of the XIII Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo, to be held on January 26th, 27th and 28th, and February 2nd, 3rd and 4rd. On this occasion 14 establishments of Bembibre will meet in this event to demonstrate their mastery in the gastronomic creation with pinchos(tapas) that promise to be spectacular. […]

The Festival Nacional de Exaltación del Botillo takes another step forward in its commitment to inclusion and multicultural recognition: the translation of its official website into Portuguese. In this way, its official information channel relates the history of the event -which has been running for more than half a century since it began in 1973- with the importance of the Portuguese immigrant community during the second half of the 20th century. [...]

The Sectorial Council of Commerce has approved today the rules of the Contest of “Pinchos del Botillo”, which will take place in the framework of the XIII Jornadas de Pinchos del Botillo on the last weekend of January and first weekend of February. The document has been agreed with the hotel and catering sector and presents two important new features which differ from previous years. […]