The Cider Museum in Nava held a new session on home-made cidermaking last weekend. LA SIDRA.- Nava Council, together with the Apple Friends Association in Siero and the Home-made Cider Association in Piloña, organized a training day about home-made cider last Saturday. In this session they discussed issues related to
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Graciano García suggests the creation of the Sweet Cider of Asturias Week LA SIDRA.- How can we solve the current situation of the apple superharvest? Graciano Garcia, retired director of the Princess of Asturias Foundation, seems to have found the solution: to create the Sweet Cider of Asturias Week. And
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The students of a school in Luanco learn to make cider. SIDROCOLES LA SIDRA.- The students of the state school La Vallina kept aside their books for some hours to learn how to press apples along the “amagüestu” held on Thursday, in which there was plenty of sweet cider and
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On 31st October we celebrate Halloween, whose roots are in the Celtic festivity of Samain. LA SIDRA.- Human being calendars and activities have always been tied to year seasons and framed in cycles. Thus, Samhain in Celtic (Samain in the Asturian language), was a festivity of transition which meant “the
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