Oviedo - Feasts and Traditions

Feasts and Traditions

The Festive Calendar:

• Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos de Oriente: The traditional Twelve Night parade, where the Three Wise Men of the East and their retinue parade through the city main streets, reaching the Cathedral Square, where they make their offering to the Child Jesus.
• L'Antroxu (Carnival)
• Feast of the Ascension
• La Foguera de San Xuan (Saint John's Bonfire):
• La Balesquida or Martes del Bollu:
• The Feast of San Mateo
• El Desarme (Disarmament's Day), commemorating the cunning victory of the locals over a Carlist army during the First Carlist War, during the 1830s

Gastronomy:

• Fabada, bean stew with selected cuts of pork, etc.
• Callos, tripe
• Carne gobernada, (chunks of meat, prepared with onion, garlic and white wine sauce)
• Chorizo a la sidra, (chorizo sausage prepared in cider)
• Paxarines
• Carbayones, Oviedo's typical almond pastry
• Sidra, (cider), Asturian typical drink, fermented apple cider
• Arroz con leche, similar to milk pudding
• Frixuelos, similar to crepes