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The most anticipated event of the year in the Villaviciosa cider region is coming up to round off an intense summer of activities.
On September 3, the celebrations that the Asturian town of Villaviciosa will begin, year after year, to pay tribute to its most precious product, cider.
The Cider Festival is already something innate within the population of the town. This year it celebrates its nineteenth edition, which since that first in 1998 has not ceased to enthuse all lovers of drunk apple.
Thus, on the first Sunday of September, every year we receive that incessant emanate of cider that is offered by the council’s lagareros, offering it free of charge throughout the day, to all those who come to the town.
The only requirement to try it is to have acquired one of the glasses that are sold on the occasion of the festival in the premises attached to the festival.
A Scancia Cider
Throughout the holidays, numerous activities will bring together locals and visitors, around the most famous wineries of the town and the principality, not in vain other towns also celebrate their particular tribute to cider but in Villaviciosa its flavor is special.
The exaltation of the apple and cider comes with the pouring and the best way to experience it is by witnessing the competition of casters, trying to cover 5 culetes per bottle.
Style, measure and result will be the factors to be analyzed by the professional jury of the XXIX Pouring Contest. It is one of the most representative events, and this year it celebrates with the collaboration of the wineries:
- Buzny
- Castañón
- Chorus
- Cortina
- The governor
- The Traviesu
- The Twins
- Bust
- Vallina
- Vigon
Cider, Gaistas and Gastronomy
Among other activities, the town council of the town also celebrates in parallel to the festival of cider, the International Bagpipe Festival, which already has no less than ten editions behind it.
The music of the bagpipes and Asturian gastronomy will be another of the key events to enjoy all the content of the festivities.
Throughout the weekend the Gastronomic Days will be held with “Las Tablas gaiteras”, to delight the participants who visit the town on those dates.