Carballiño once again became the octopus world capital. Thousands of people moved there on a hot Sunday to enjoy one of the main events of the calendar of gastronomic festivals in Galicia.
As every second Sunday of August, the O Carballiño municipal park hosted the Octopus Festival, a celebration of National Tourist Interest.

A party in which the owner of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, also participated, who put this celebration as an “example” of the “cozy and open Galicia”.

“Our identity was added,” he said, according to a statement, the head of the regional Executive, who recalled that Galicia is the result of the “sum of ancestral cultures, such as those that rest in the castro of San Cibrao de Lanas.”

He then called to continue betting “for a tolerant and host Galicia, which turns the visitor into another Galician.”

The Octopus Festival of O Carballiño turns 55 in 2017 and is considered as one of the main gastronomic festivals in all of Spain.