Olmeda de las Fuentes, a charming village in the Community of Madrid in which live just over 400 inhabitants -409 according to the latest data from the INE- celebrates this Saturday, November 8 at 19h the feast of Magosto, a popular festival with great roots in Galicia and northern Spain.
The Olmeda Hiking Group, which has been in charge of organizing the activity in collaboration with the Olmeda City Council, will chop and roast the chestnuts that will then be distributed among the attendees. And to accompany the tasting, they will also prepare a very spicy mulled wine.
The event will end in style: “We will have an excellent end of the party with a great “queimada”, all decorated with Celtic music, songs and dances“, explained Wenceslao Villaverde Alonso, coordinator of Magosto de Olmeda, during the interview we did with him in our section of Hoy por Hoy Madrid in Cadena SER -and that you can listen here from minute 1:30:16-.
The place where this Magosto will be held will be the Pedro Páez Auditorium of the town (Plaza de la Villa, 7).
What is the origin of the Magosto festival?
During the interview, we also asked Alonso about the origin of this celebration: “It is a very traditional festival, especially in the area of Galicia and northern Spain -Asturias, Cantabria, León, the Bierzo area and part of northern Portugal-. It consists of roasting chestnuts around a bonfire where most of the people gather to eat them and then accompany them with wine, traditional sweets… and above all with music and singing. It is a joyful, fun party, marking the end of the harvest”.