Bilbao is filled with txikitos and txapelas in the 59th edition of the Txikiteroen Festa
Txikiteros and txikiterasand in addition to Bilbao. More than enough ingredients to join the spree. Today was presented 59th edition of the Txikiteroen Festaan appointment that promises to be especially intense this year, with twelve days and the most complete program in its history. The txikito glasses have been filled with wine and water in equal parts during the toast, but the weather has not dampened the desire to have a good time, not at all. The Txikiteroen Festa begins today with choirs, exhibitions, concerts, recreational activities, gastronomic contests, tributes…
Those responsible for collective txikitero artean (among txikiteros) encourage you to participate in the events and go through the Casco Viejo to drink some txikito and enjoy the atmosphere. The day of the Amatxu, Tuesday next week’s events will begin at 11:00 a.m. with the kalejira txakolinera. In front of the cathedral, the group Trabudu Dantzari Taldea will dance the typical dance mahaigaineko and the pilgrimage It will continue along Bidebarrieta, Jardines and Santa María streets. At 12.00 there will be the flower and must offering Bizkaiawhich will also be given to all attendees to try.
The act continues with the traditional song to the Virgin Y the bizkaia pastry chefs guild carry out the distribution of the Begoña cakea dessert that they created more than 20 years ago in honor of the Virgin. At eight o’clock there will be the mass singing to La Salve.
Then the Athletic Club from Casco Viejo, which is part of Txikiteroen Artean, will distribute, as every year, free wine and pintxos for all attendees that they wish. They are expected to be distributed 3,000 pintxos. Txikitero Artean wants to surrender tribute to the begoñafor which invites to women named Begoña to observe and participate in the massive singing of La Salve from the balconies of the La Bolsa building. will have to register to participate in the draw that “will give access to 12 of them, given the limitation of the building”. The phone numbers and emails for registration are: Historic Bilbao: 946 79 33 79 [email protected] and Casco Viejo Traders Association: 944 15 16 33 [email protected]. Also, the own day 11, day of the Amatxuthe Coffee Lake from Post Street invites all women who are accredited to be called Begoña to breakfast and also a total of 16 establishments in the area will historically invite Begoña cake with breakfast.
MORE ACTS
what’s more, On the 6th, the traditional prizes will be awarded Txikito of Honor Poor me people and groups that work for the tradition of txikiteo. During These days, up to twenty choirs and otxotes will come out to sing through the streets of the Old Town of Bilbao and San Francisco and Bilbao La Vieja from all over Biscay with the aim of liven up the hours of txikiteofrom bar to bar, with the classic Bilbao, Havana and different popular songs in Basque and Spanish.
The day 7 will take place, also in the La Bolsa building (19.00) the round table titled The Bilbao txapela yesterday, today and tomorrowque will discuss the use of this traditional garment with experts, manufacturers and artists. The round table will be preceded by the short film screening the txapelas by Iñaki Basabe. On the other hand, the txikitera piggy banklocated under a niche in the Amatxu on the corner of Santa María and Pelota streets and where the txikiteros traditionally deposit what is left over from the pot, it will also have a special role. “The newly created association of custodians of the txikitera piggy bankthat they allocate to social fines the money collectedI will take a cape txikitero photo booth, with which people will be invited to take a photo next to the piggy bank”. It will be on Saturday the 8th, from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m., and on the 11th, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. There has also been an organized Exhibition of paintings in Bilbao based in San Juan de Luz, Conchita ArteroWhich collects Landscapes of the Basque and Cantabrian coast in the La Bolsa building between October 3 and 14).
TXIKITERO EGG
He will not miss the appointment either. gastronomy. The festival of the txikiteros has organized a double event that has as its protagonist the txikitero eggthe traditional pintxo based on hard-boiled eggthat, “according to popular tradition, the txikiteros ate to make bottom and endure more”. A) Yes, 42 bars in Casco Viejo, San Francisco and Bilbao La Vieja will play this pintxo between today and October 16, in the Txikitero Egg Route and the IV Txikitero Egg Contest of the 21st century to remember and give consistency to the txikitera tradition.