A Lion in the Shield of Gastronomy

The city of León has been chosen as the Spanish capital of Gastronomy for next year 2018.

From next January 1, 2018, the city of León will take over from Huelva, which continues to celebrate different events to conclude its gastronomic capital.

The elaborate candidacy, like its stews, has won the award ahead of Cuenca, which for the second consecutive year, is on the verge of achieving it.

The city already prepares the innumerable acts, gastronomic events and culinary days that will give the city even more if possible, a true gastronomic value, to commemorate that capital year that has just been granted.

With the motto that unites the culinary, with the historical tradition, “Manjar de Reyes”The city of León will develop 155 gastronomic initiatives to promote tourism and gastronomy in the city.

The deliberation was carried out last week by a professional jury that was made up of personalities from the world of tourism, hospitality, communication and government bodies.

Turespaña, FITUR, Spanish Confederation of Travel Agencies, Spanish Confederation of Hotels, FEHR, Taste Spain, Good Table Restaurants Association, Euro-Toques European Community of Cooks, FEPET tourist journalists, etc … were the entities that, under The decision of its members, chose the Leonese capital as the best candidate to celebrate an authentic gastro-culinary 2018.

The value of a century-old gastronomy

One of the main reasons that have given it the award of being the next Spanish Capital of Gastronomy 2018, It has been its support and endorsement of numerous personalities from the political, institutional, social, cultural and media fields that, as a differentiating lever in the presentation of the candidacy, has been key to disseminating its content.

Apart from this support, its incessant hospitality activity, showing the not inconsiderable ranking of being the city of Spain with the most bars per inhabitant, 5,03 per thousand inhabitants, in its bars and tables several of the delicacies have been tasted for centuries. culinary from the national gastronomic scene such as Valdeón cheese, goat cecina, roasted pepper from Bierzo, mountain stew, maragato stew, lamb in chanfaina, railway pot, stewed tortilla or the now international botillo, which is praises and honors these days, with its XXXIII Bierzo Gastronomic Days.

Many of the raw materials with which traditional dishes are made, such as lentils, beans, or local wines, are protected by three Denominations of Origin, and nine Protected Geographical Indications.

The gastronomic tourism of the city has a clear reference in the humid neighborhood of the city, but we must not forget that the hospitality activity is not limited only to this location, in every corner of the city, there is passion and love for good food .

We remind you now which cities have run the prestigious award in recent years:

• Burgos (2013)
• Vitoria (2014)
• Caceres (2015)
• Toledo (2016)
• Huelva (2017)