Location: Festa Field.
Location: Abades
Date: Easter Sunday
Month: April
Age:1st edition 1988
 Coordinates: X: 557.107 Y: 4.733.622   H: 29

Importance: This is a festivity which exalts one of the most typical biscuits bar none, a staple of traditional Galician pilgrimages (romerias) which in this council is known as a 'Melindre". There is written evidence of making this dessert in the19th century as it was awarded prizes in various regional competitions and exhibitions (1880 and 1909), this gives an idea of the antiquity and crafts man ship involved in its making and the great ambassador it had in the figure of Candida Tábora.

Ceremony: popular pilgrimage with a solemn Mass, procession and offering of biscuits, contest and auction.

Organization: As one would expect, this delicacy found its advocate in the Virxe do Carme of Abades Sanctuary, where on Easter Sunday, the pilgrims and housewives come to makean offering of the "bolos" to later take out in the procession.

Once the religious acts are finished the"bolos" (trays which contain 50 beautifully displayed Melindres) are exhibited in a competition where prizes are awardedfor the taste and presentation. They are then auctioned off in the festa field and the proceeds go to cover expenses. Anecdotally, a bolo was auctioned at 210 € (edition 2008).

Fuente: turismosilleda.es