5 tourist destinations for Easter

It is spring, but the temperature and the weather of the entire peninsula is just as diverse and changing as the traditional cookbook of its people.

Holy Week is a period of leisure and activities where, apart from delving into the culture and history of one of our most solemn traditions, it is also the ideal time to do gastronomic tourism and try those wonderful dishes that we can find during the week of passion.

The diversity that we find throughout our geography makes us be specific and we are going to list the places that we consider most interesting, either because of their culinary tradition or because of their differentiation from other proposals throughout the year.

Holy Week is lived in spring, but the temperature and the weather of the entire peninsula is just as diverse and changing as the traditional cookbook of its people. Below we list five examples of the best pairing between Easter and gastronomy of our country.

Cuenca and its Atascaburras.

One of the most popular holy weeks in our country, Cuenca, celebrates its parades in its impressive medieval old town. One of those parades, that of The Mobs, at dawn on Good Friday, alternate moments of thundering drums and bugles with absolute silence while the miserere is said.

It is the perfect time to remember the ancient shepherds with the dish that the shepherds used in the harsh days of winter, which in many cases has not yet completely disappeared. Its about Atascaburras, consisting of mashed cooked potato with cod crumbs, garlic, oil, hard-boiled egg and walnuts. Caloric power without meat involved.

Seville and the Potaje de Vigilia.

Perhaps Seville is the most popular Holy Week in Spain… and in the world. The international diffusion have made of those days an authentic tourist claim of people from all over the world. its “Early morning” brings together hundreds of thousands of people in the narrow streets of the center of the Andalusian capital.

One of the dishes that is most consumed at this time in Seville is the Vigil Potaje, which has chickpeas, spinach, cod and hard-boiled egg. It is drunk very hot and is the maximum exponent, together with torrijas, of the gastronomy of these dates.

Malaga and its cod fritters

An Andalusian Holy Week warmer than those lived in the interior is the one that attracts the popular fervor that is lived in Malaga. During seven days the streets are filled with a public very devoted to the local divinities, the locals and tourists want to see their visitors up close. “Christs and VirginsWhile bolts are heard from the balconies.

How we are in a seaport, fish is the best exponent. Cod is the typical fish of Malaga’s Holy Week. And since it is the land of the best frying in the world, cod fritters abound, we can eat them either on plates or in cones, inside homes or on the streets of the city, they are always delicious.

León and the Torrijas.

Inland and to the north is the austere Castilian province of León. Collection and silence is the Holy Week of León, which celebrates the passion of Christ in an environment where torrijas stand out for the variety of ingredients, jumping from the oldest culinary tradition to the sophistication of pastries creating varieties of all kinds, from traditionally sweet (milk, sugar, cinnamon and honey) to the avant-garde and innovative with Parmesan cheese, chorizo, potato or cecina added.

Palencia and the Potatoes to the Importance

Simple but tasty are the traditional recipes and in the Palencia proposal we have a clear exponent.

Faith, silence and recollection give Holy Week in Palencia a significance that reaches every corner of the center of the capital, very much in line with other Castilian cities.

There we find potatoes to the importance, a Palencia dish exported to the rest of the Spanish geography, as in the case of Madrid, where it combines a fry of potatoes floured and battered in egg, to which is added a mash of saffron, garlic and parsley along with a white wine reduction.

It is served in a clay pot and when you taste it something changes… always for the better.