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