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Amagüestu in AsturiasC.P. Lugo de Llanera
What is
Amagüestu?From ancient times, after harvesting the chestnuts, apples and corncob, people all over Asturias celebrate an autumn party, called Amagüestu.
Asturias produces a lot of this healthy food.
In Spanish, Autumn is Otoño.
In Asturian language, Seronda.
When do we
celebrate it?Always in Autumn (otoño o seronda)
Usually when its time to remove the leaves in the corncobs
Frequently when the chestnut sellers are ready to bake the chestnuts and appear in Oviedo streets
Where do we
celebrate it?Now, we celebrate it in our schools and festivals in different villages all over Asturias.
But, in ancient times, it was celebrated in all the small villages when summer was over and the harvest was on
Its origin could be Celtic.
How do we prepare it?How do we prepare it? In our classes: English language, Arts and crafts, Religion
and Asturian language we prepare la montera picona, (a tradicional hat from ancient times) and a pin with some typical object of our culture.
We prepared several displays, as well.
We made a chigre. This was a shop-bar, where people got all the goods and meet friends to chat and drink cider or other drinks together.
And, finally, we celebrated the party with workshops, baked chestnuts and sweet cider.
Ancient jobs workshopAncient jobs workshopMadreñero
(wooden clogs)Basket maker
Ancient gamesAncient games
El chigre, El chigre, the shop-bar the shop-bar ……
……where we got the where we got the baked chestnutsbaked chestnuts
An exposition of An exposition of model buildingsmodel buildings
Different displaysDifferent displays
More displaysMore displays
And, finally time to eat the baked And, finally time to eat the baked
chestnuts and drink the sweet cider chestnuts and drink the sweet cider
with friends.with friends.
Next November … more Amagüestu