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Festival of a Filloa de Lestedo

Boqueixón, Santiago, A Coruña

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Festival of a Filloa de Lestedo

Activity · Boqueixón, Santiago, A Coruña

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A gastronomic festival held since 1984 in the parish of Lestedo, in the concello of Boqueixón in the province of La Coruña, on the Sunday following Shrove Tuesday; it arose from the residents' decision to revive a tradition of the Ulla comarca and extend the entroido festivities, whose central figures are the Altos Xenerais e Correos. In 2008, on its 25th edition, it was declared a Fiesta de Interés Turístico de Galicia (a Spanish official designation for festivals of touristic interest). It draws thousands of visitors around the filloa, the Galician crepe made of flour, egg and milk or broth -at home it was made with the broth from the pig slaughter-, cooked there in iron filloeiras over the embers and enjoyed plain, with honey, or rolled up. Since 2004 a machine capable of producing up to 1,600 filloas an hour without altering the recipe has been used.

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