title | Festival de Percebe en Aguiño

Galicia is known for its fresh, diverse and unique seafood. The coast of Galicia is full of many interesting seafood delicacies to discover, taste and enjoy. One is the Percebe and is a seafood treasure that is celebrated and enjoyed by locals. Especially, at the Festival de Percebe en Aguiño which takes place the first weekend in August.

If you are traveling enjoying the Galician coastline you may enjoy this festival as it is just 79 Km south west of Santiago de Compostela. With so many festivals to choose from it might be difficult but then you have another reason to visit again while you continue to discover more of Galicia. Thank you to our friend and chef Kique for a little personal tour and special time at the festival.

KIQUE GIVES A LITTLE BEHIND THE SCENES TOUR:

“Goose barnacles (order Pedunculata), also called stalked barnacles or gooseneck barnacles, arefilter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone.

In the days before it was realised that birds migrate, it was thought that Barnacle Geese, Branta leucopsis, developed from this crustacean, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe, hence the English names “goose barnacle”, “barnacle goose” and the scientific name Lepas anserifera (Latin anser = “goose”). The confusion was prompted by the similarities in colour and shape. Because they were often found on driftwood, it was assumed that the barnacles were attached to branches before they fell in the water. The Welsh monk, Giraldus Cambrensis, made this claim in his Topographia Hiberniae. Since barnacle geese were thought to be “neither flesh, nor born of flesh”, they were allowed to be eaten on days when eating meat was forbidden by religion.” – WIKIPEDIA

Festival de Percebe en Aguiño

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