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San Timoteo

The celebration of San Timoteo, Luarca’s pattern, are held throughout the month of August, beginning first day of the festival of St. Águeda and ending on August 22, with the festival of St. Timoteo.

Celtic Music Festival: Takes place in late July at San Timoteo’s field.

August 1st: Romería of Santa Águeda at the San Timoteo’s field.

Members of the confraternity day: This romería is celebrated on the first or the second Sunday in August at the San Timoteo’s field where the "Bollo preñao"(bread filled with chorizo) and the wine are shared out, along with the pastoral and  “T" of San Timoteo to the members of the confraternity.

August 16th: In the Plaza del Ayuntamiento there are games and shows for children: Foam party, tourist train and disco.

From 17th to 22th of August: Verbenas at the town square.

August 22th: San Timoteo, a celebration that many people considered as the most joyful, explosive and participatory occurring throughout the Principality. It lasts a week, beginning the Sunday before with the sharing out of the bollo and the wine at the field; they taste it at the field there while they read the Pastoral, where humor and anecdotes remember the most significant events occurred the last year in Luarca. Children's costumes, live music and verbenas are leading up to the peak of the celebration, el día grande. This day, the people go at ten in the morning towards the field of the romería, in a civic procession around the popular cart with wine pulled by a horse, with the accompaniment of bagpipes groups, indefatigable brass bands, marching bands and thousands of pilgrims. Una multitud, ataviada con variados blusones de distinto color -los chambrones-, según la peña a que se pertenezca, bastones en alto y la típica T de pan colgada al cuello, recorren la Villa y el camino hacia el lugar de la fiesta, en un ambiente inenarrable que se prolonga durante todo el día -comida campestre incluida- hasta las nueve de la tarde, hora en que comienza el regreso; un retorno difícil para quien no haya participado en la fiesta, que culmina a la llegada al parque de la Villa. A crowd, dressed in blouses of different colours -el-Chambrón- depending of the peña that you belong, and with their sticks high and the typical T of bread around their necks. They walk around the town and go through the road to the place of the celebration, in an indescribable atmosphere that lasts all day, picnic-up including. At nine in the afternoon is the time when people begin the return. It is a difficult return for those who did not participate in the celebration, which ends at the park of the village.