Festivities
The municipality of Boal hosts a great number of festivities and fairs. Among the most important ones we can stress the following:
- On May 15: the feast in honor of San Isidro which is hold close to its hermitage in the mountain near the Penouta range.
- On June 13 and 14: the feast in honor of San Antonio in Armal.
- On July 24, 25 and 26: the feast in honor of Santiago Apóstol, in Boal. On July 21 and 22, the feast in honor of the Virgen de la Magdalena in Doiras.
- On August 25: the feast in honor of San Luis in the homonym village.
- In October/November: the Feria de la Miel (Honey Fair) at the last weekend of October or the first one of November.
It is also worth mentioning the fortnightly market that takes place in Boal, hosted on every alternate Mondays. In addition, there are also several cattle markets during the year. Two of them are hosted in the fairground of Boal on the second Saturday of October and on the last one of April, and other two are hosted in the La Bobia range: on May 29, that of San Fernando and on June 26 that of San Pelayo.
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