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‘Torto’ Menes day:“A widespread practice in the Valle de Mena, celebrated and unchanged since time immemorial, is the eating of ‘tortos’ during the first two days of Easter. A ‘torto’ is a bread roll baked with a portion of sausage in the middle.”
Angel Nuño, in “El Valle de Mena y Sus Pueblos”, 1925.
The Cantonad Festival: Every 8th May, without exception, the people of Mena keep a date with their patron saint, the Virgin of Cantonad. This traditional festival, mentioned in records as far back as the seventeenth century, involves a communal picnic among the ramblers who have walked up to the Cantonad chapel with special emphasis on eating local products such as Torto, ‘chicho’ torto, cured sausages, black puddings etc. The Cantonad Festival 2008
The ‘Puchera’ competition: From the railroad which crosses the Valle de Mena, called the Robla, comes this dish, one of the most unusual in Spanish gastronomy. The Puchera Ferroviaria, or Railroad Stew, in which beans, meat, cured sausage, pork fat and black pudding are slowly cooked together, originated in the heat of Castilian coal driving the booming iron and steel industry in Vizcaya during the last century. The habit became a tradition that is celebrated nowadays as part of the Villasana town festival on Santa Filomena, the day of married couples, with a puchera cooking competition.
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