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Cocido Fair of Lalín

Lalín, Deza, Pontevedra

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Cocido Fair of Lalín

Activity · Lalín, Deza, Pontevedra

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The Feira do Cocido de Lalín, the town's great gastronomic gathering on the Sunday before Entroido, was born in 1968 on the initiative of mayor Luis González Taboada as a way of promoting the products of the Deza comarca among its six municipalities; the first edition was held in 1969. Declared Fiesta de Interés Turístico de Galicia (official tourism recognition) in 1999, Nacional in 2010 and Internacional in 2020, it was the first Spanish gastronomic festival to achieve this last recognition. It brings together thousands of diners around Galician cocido, with a parallel programme, the Mes del Cocido, and an opening address given by figures such as Álvaro Cunqueiro or Celso Emilio Ferreiro.

Photo: Iago (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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