
Next Saturday, February 8 will be held in Gátova the Pig Festival or “Matacerdo“, an event in which neighbors and visitors will gather around the embers to cook meat and sausages.
This festival, declared a Festival of Local Tourist Interest by the Generalitat Valenciana commemorates the old “matanzas”, when the neighbors prepared sausages for the rest of the year.
This year, different “cuadrillas” of neighbors will meet on Friday, February 7 to prepare the bonfire in the Town Hall Square of the town. In those embers will be cooked a day later, on Saturday 8, the meat and sausage.
During Saturday, trays of sausage already prepared at the bonfire will be sold for 5 euros. Each tray includes meat, bread and a glass of wine. The local butcher Consuelo will be this year’s supplier of the event.
The meat can be enjoyed at the tables that will be set up in the town square or wherever everyone wants. For the after dinner there will be an orchestra and from 18:30, a party with dj in the so-called “Pig Destroyer”.