Asturias Tourist Guide 2018

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Come home to Paradise

A wedding without an invitation The Fiesta Vaqueirada in Aristébano is a very popular traditional wedding that commemorates the life and traditions of the vaqueiros, a cultural ethnic group of nomadic shepherds. The brides arrive in a procession, dressed in traditional attire led by a carriage carrying the dowry. The ceremony is followed by a communal meal.

The Volley (Cangas del Narcea)

Go on a religious pilgrimage

In Asturian, a party is called folixa. As firmly rooted in culture as the term itself are the festivities and traditions of Asturias, which has a long list of Festivals of Tourist Interest. In the Volley of Cangas del Narcea, coinciding with the Fiesta El Carmen in July, the whole of the southwest shakes with rocket fireworks and tonnes of gunpowder fill the air. The Güevos Pintos or Painted Easter Egg Festival in La Pola/Pola de Siero takes place on the Tuesday after Holy Week. Children and artists decorate and sell eggs of many different sizes and with various drawings ranging from the traditional to contemporary. The Shepherd Fiesta is a tribute to livestock farming. Every 25 July, traditional sports and religious pilgrims fill the town of Los Lagos. In August, L.Luarca/ Luarca holds the festival in honour of San Timoteo. Quirós and Comarca Ethnographic Museum (Quirós), Rural School Museum (Cabranes),Wood and BeekeepingMuseum (Caso) and the Grado Ethnographic Museum (Grado). Another exciting way to explore the region is to take part in one of the festivals of tourist interest celebrated throughout the year. There are gastronomy, sports, cultural and religious festivals and those linked to agriculture and some recreate historic events. You can find the complete list, allowing you to go from celebration to celebration all year round, on the official website Turismo Asturias.

VaqueiraWedding Celebration (Valdés and Tineo)

Museums and ethnographic centres are a perfect way to begin to get to know the essence of Asturias, which can also be felt in the everyday life in the towns, in the people whomake an effort tomaintain official traditions, in livestock and agriculture farming activity, vital to understanding the economy of this territory. Including in this network of collections are the Museumof the Asturian People (Gijón), Grandas de Salime Ethnographic Museum, Ethnographic Museumof Eastern Asturias (Llanes), Somiedo Ethnographic Ecomuseum (Somiedo), Mazonovo Ethnographic Site (Santa Eulalia de Oscos), Vaqueiro (Cattle Herders’) Museum (MUVAS) (Tineo),