Thousands of people once again supported one of the busiest autumn events in the central Leon mountains and attended the Vegacervera Cecina Goat Fairwhich in its thirty-third edition showed the agri-food and tourism strength of the municipality.
The mayor, Octavio Octavio González, during the usual reception of the authorities on the main day of the event, made a call on institutions to further support both sectors and help “see the way forward” in territories like rural Leon, hard hit by the cessation of mining activity.
“We must think to reverse the situation,” he stressed during an event in which he had the support of many authorities and political leaders, including the secretary general of the PSOE of Castilla y León and spokesperson word of the Cortes, Luis Tudança, who praised the good work of the promoters of the event and the producers who make it possible to “spread the benefits of a province which needs the use of its resources and their profitability, he said, the institutions must commit to improving public services, infrastructure and industrial development.
The president of the Provincial Council of León, Gerardo Alvarez Courelunderlined the support of the institution for a meeting which succeeded in promoting and raising awareness of goat charcuterie and its quality thanks to “a visionary attitude” of the first promoters of the Fair and its consolidation.
The provincial secretary of the PSOE and national deputy, Javier Alfonso Cendónhighlighted that the Fair “perfectly combines culture, tradition and future to revive this region and territory” and put the area and specifically dried meat as an example of activity for the transformation of the territory.
The territorial delegate of the Council, Eduardo Diego, alluded to the growth of the Fair and its reference position in the provincial calendar and wanted to highlight producers who “create jobs and establish the population.”
The Fair, which brings together dozens of exhibitors of products such as cold meats, wines, confectionery or cheeses and which He was born from a basketball competition -a product that has continued to sell-, had among its strong points the very popular tasting of dried goat meat, sausage, black pudding, bread and wine Sunday morning, before the tour of the different posts by the institutional delegation.
