FESTIVALS AND FAIRS
Forte s/n
15581 BOQUEIXÓN (A Coruña)
Tel.: 981 513 061 – 981 513 052
Fax: 981 513 000
Festivals and fairs
Market fairs
Lestedo market fair: first and third Sunday of the month.
Rodiño (Sergude) market fair: second Sunday of the month.
Filloa festival
Lestedo. Piñata Sunday (the Sunday after Carnival).
The filloa festival began at Carnival in 1984 and has since become one of the most important food festivals in the area, drawing thousands of people every year to the festival ground in Lestedo, where it is held.
The star of the show, the filloa, is the Carnival dessert par excellence: a thin crêpe made from milk, flour and eggs, prepared in many different ways. In Lestedo you can taste them plain or filled with honey, chorizo and more. The filloa makers say the secret is keeping the stone on which they are cooked at a constant temperature, so that they come out as thin as cigarette paper.
Carnival (Entroido)
The parish of Sergude, for more than 50 years, and more recently Lestedo, which revived the tradition some years ago, star in the traditional Carnival of the Ulla area: the Xenerais do Ulla, the “generals and couriers”, with their verbal duels. The troupes set out parish by parish, led by a small number of couriers on fine horses, riding ahead to announce the procession. They are the vanguard of a small parish army that follows under the command of the generals. Both stand out for their dress uniforms and tricorn hats full of coloured feathers, as they tour every village cheering the neighbours and singing songs that end with the “Encontro” or “Atranque”: a satirical, mocking duel in rhyme between couriers and generals that the villagers follow closely. In the end good sense prevails and, after the sharp exchange, peace is restored.
The parish of Codeso holds an original Carnival with beautiful floats built and decorated by the people of each village, turned into real travelling theatres where satirical scenes about recent news are performed.
Religious festivals and open-air dances
Parish of Boqueixón
San Vicente: 22 January
San Xosé and the Holy Sacrament: last weekend of August
Parish of A Granxa
San Sebastián pilgrimage on Pico Sacro: 20 January and the last Sunday of May.
San Lourenzo: 10, 11 and 12 August
Parish of Codeso
Flower festival: 1st or 2nd Sunday of May
San Antonio and San Paio: last Sunday of June
Santa Baia, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Corpus Christi: 10, 11 and 12 December
Parish of Donas
Santa Rita: 22 May.
San Pedro and the Holy Sacrament: 29 and 30 June
Parish of Sucira
Santa Mariña: 18, 19 and 20 July
Parish of Gastrar
Santa Mariña: 18 July
Our Lady of Perpetual Help: 2nd Sunday of August
Parish of Lestedo
San Sebastián pilgrimage: 20 January and the last Sunday of May
Our Lady: 15 and 16 August
Corpus Christi: Sunday after 15 August
Our Lady of Lourdes: second Sunday of September
Parish of Lamas
Holy Christ and Candlemas: last weekend of April
Our Lady: 15, 16 and 17 August
Parish of Loureda
San Pedro, the Holy Sacrament and the Rosary: 29 and 30 June and 1 July
Our Lady of Mount Carmel: first Sunday of August
Parish of Oural
San Amaro: 15 January
San Isidro: Sunday after 15 May
Our Lady: 15, 16 and 17 August
Parish of Ledesma
San Salvador: 6, 7 and 8 August
San Ramón: 31 August
Our Lady of the Rosary: 7 October
Parish of Pousada
A Pascuiña: March
San Lourenzo: 10, 11 and 12 August
Parish of Sergude
Flower festival: 20 May
San Antonio and the Holy Sacrament: second weekend of June
San Bieito pilgrimage: second Sunday of July
San Breixo: first weekend of October
Parish of Vigo
San Antonio: 13 June
Our Lady of Sorrows: third Sunday of September
Our Lady of A Saeta: fourth Sunday of September
Santa Baia and the Holy Sacrament: 10 and 11 December
