El entrenador asturiano del Athletic abrirá el viernes 8 de octubre el Festival de la Manzana y en 2007, cuando dirigía al Racing, pregonó las Fiestas del Portal
Marcelino García Toral has ascending among his neighbors.The Athletic coach will be a preacher on Friday of the Apple Festival of Villaviciosa, an event held every two years and that is an expected celebration in the Asturian region.It will open the conference at 7:00 p.m. at the Riera Theater with a proclamation that will be presented by Nerea Vázquez and Pedro Durán, with the participation of the Villaviciosa-El Gaitero Gaites Band.ELACT Retransmitted live by YouTube Canal and Official Networks of the City Council.It is the second time that a proclamation stars: the previous one was in 2007, when he trained Racing, to start the portal festivities.
The Athletic coach is a native of Careñes and maintains a close connection with his people.The contest of which it will be a preacher will have as its central activities the XXXV Table apple and cider exhibition of Asturias and the blessing act of the first must and offering to the Virgin of the Portal with dance of the Dance-Salve del Portal.
The 2021 celebration will serve the recognition of Humberto Alonso, known as "The Painter of the Ria", recently deceased.The City Council has decided to recover for the occasion the poster for the festival that Alonso, adopted son of Villaviciosa, painted in 1985, on the occasion of the silver weddings of the event, in a representation of the sculpture "La Manzanera", by Mariano Benlliure