The town of Noreña hosts each spring coinciding with the celebration of the San Marcos festivity, patron saint of the butchers, Party of picadillo and sabadiegodeclared Festival of tourist interest in the Principality of AsturiasThis 2025 will be between the days 25 y 28 de abril.
If there is something that distinguishes Noreña, it is the manufacture of all kinds of sausages. This festival pays tribute to a long-standing culinary tradition. Many portions of picadillo, the best-known sausage, and many more of sabadiego, a sausage made from blood, lean meat and onion, will be served.
The Order of Sabadiego is responsible for promoting this product and the party. Each year they invite an illustrious town crier to kick off the festivities, to which other brotherhoods of this type come from all over Spain and the south-west of France.
· Friday, April 25
Floral offering by Adepas members at the statue of Pedro Alonso, "El Indiano," in La Playina at 12.30:XNUMX p.m.
Sunday April 27
31st edition of the Chapter of the Sabadiego Brotherhood
At 13:XNUMX p.m., the new full and honorary members will be welcomed in the bandstand. This year, a woman, Patricia Junquera, will be named a full member for the first time; she will be the first full lady.
Doctor Francisco Javier Salas, Maito Madrigal, Pedro Piñeiro, Pepe Oneto, Elvira Fernández (Mayor of Candelario), Alfredo Canteli (Mayor of Oviedo) and historian Luis Benito García, among others, will be named honorary members.
