National Beer Festival

The National Beer Festival is Argentina's version of the German Oktoberfest. It has taken place every October since 1963. This festival attracts thousands of tourists for two consecutive weekends. Today it is the largest in Latin America after the festival in Blumenau, Brazil.

Villa General Belgrano

Espiche in 2006.

Villa General Belgrano, Córdoba, founded in 1930, taken from the first time the characteristics of a village Alpine with wooden houses and red roofs in two waters. Central European cuisine and imported all the habits of Europe central music, dances, parties, crafts and language.

The party emerged in the village in the 1960s by the hand of the first German immigrants. Orchestras and dance groups were presented by the speaker Matías Ortega Calvo, which name the main stage at present. She came delegations from various countries around the world (Germany, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Greece, Italy, Armenia and Ukraine, among others). Citarequerida (())

Traditionally developed in the Plaza Jose Hernandez, but in 1996 moved to a specially designed site, theBrewer Park. With a procession through the streets of the town which has carriages, dance groups, orchestras, villagers in traditional costume parade and the special dog sausages. Each year, select theQueen of Oktoberfest Argentinain a ceremony to be held in the HallBrewer.

The years passed and the beer industry has been developed considerably. This party grew and began to call for a large number of tourist.

The Espiche

The Espiche is that the ceremony is to make a barrel of beer in a wooden spool, which is served with the drink. This event symbolizes the beginning of the festival in Villa General Belgrano.

External links

• History of the festival. (Spanish)
• Cabañas Villa General Belgrano