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Canyelles
Ingredients for the sauce:
(for four people) |
Ingredients for the dish:
(for four people) |
| ALMONDS |
100 GRAMS |
| HAZELNUTS |
80 GRAMS |
| GRILLED ONION |
1/2 PIECE |
| GRILLED HEAD OF GARLIC |
1/2 PIECE |
| SCALDED NYORA |
1 PIECE |
| RED GRILLED TOMATOES |
3 PIECES |
| FRIED BREAD |
1 SLICE |
| OIL |
| SALT |
| VINEGAR |
| PAPIKRA BLACK |
| PEPPER |
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| CURLY ENDIVES |
2 PIECES |
| COD |
120 GRAMS |
| TUNA |
120 GRAMS |
| ANCHOVY |
4 FILLETS |
| ARBEQUINE OLIVES |
80 GRAMS |
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Preparation
Put some salt in a mortar, then add following carved ingredients one after the other in this other: almonds and hazelnuts, until you get an smooth paste; then add the nyora –previously scalded and without peel–, the onion, the red pepper, a little bit of black pepper and the fried bread. Finally, add the garlic, the red tomatoes, oil and vinegar.
When the sauce is ready, mix it with the curly endive, washed and drained. Let it stand for some hours. Serve it with some ripped out raw cod, some tuna, anchovies’ fillets and olives. Then it can be eaten, always together with artichoke, beans or black sausage –and other– omelettes.
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Celebrations and activities
| DESEMBER 2006 |
• 2nd. 5th Santa Llúcia Fair
• 2nd. 20th Painting Contest and Children’s painting workshop. Sanvisens Award
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| JANUARY 2007 |
• 1st. New Year’s Party
• 5th. Epiphany Parade
• 26th. New Year’s Party
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| MARCH 2007 |
• 9th. 4 Xatonada Popular
• 30th Motor's fair
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| APRIL 2007 |
• 26 th. International Dance Day
• 26 th. Sant Jordi’s Day celebrations
• 26th and 27th. XXVI Walk to Montserrat Abbey
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How to get there by road
• From Barcelona: motorway C-32, exit 21; AP-7, exit 29
• From Tarragona: connecting motorways AP-7 and AP-2, exit 30
• From Vilanova i la Geltrú: road C-15
• From Vilafranca del Penedès: road C-15
• From El Vendrell: road C-32, exit 21
• From to the Prat del Llobregat Airport: motorway C-32, exit 21
How to get there by train
Canyelles has no a train station. The closest cities with it are Vilanova i la Geltrú and Vilafranca del Penedès.
CERCANÍAS RENFE:
• Line 2 (Sant Vicenç – Vilanova – Barcelona – Maçanet)
• Line 4 (Sant Vicenç – Vilafranca – Barcelona – Manresa)
• Regionales RENFE: check the website www.renfe.es) to know the timetables of the trains that stop in VIlanova i la Geltrú
How to get there by bus
There are a regular bus line that travels between Canyelles, Vilafranca del Penedès and Vilanova i la Geltrú.
For more informaton and the timetables check www.autocarsplana.com.
Gastronomy
Wide variety and handmade dishes from our traditional gastronomy
Xató, snails and D.O. Penedes wines starring restaurant menus.
Our delicious and traditional cakes and our firewood bread will seduce you.
Find it out!
Canyelles is a 3.800 inhabitants town, intimate and picturesque, an strategic place for its nature as a bridge between the sea and the mountains, with a natural environment exceptionally appropriate for tours and walks or to go climbing at penya de l’Escofet, also known as the Facu.
Panoramic view of the old quarter
The town can be identified by the monumental ensemble which consists of its castle and church, located up a hill 142 m high, and which can be seen from all town accesses.The castle, which has been recorded from the 15th Century, is a private property today, inhabited during part of the year. Notwithstanding, it is thought that it might have originally been an Olèrdola’s bastion defence tower. Originally, Canyelles Church,
which dates back from 17th Century, had been part of the castle, as it can be deduced
from the existence of the Bouffard’s lord’s shield on its façade.
The way down to Castell Street
Houses from different periods and elements from country life which remind the visitor of a town making its living by agriculture and livestock farming. All this can be found by walking along Canyelles’ old quarter. Although there are other Catalan country houses spread all over the municipality, especial mention has to be made on Can Sàbat (15th Century) and Can Faló (16th Century), located in the town centre.
Town’s Main Festival and Fireworks
Tradition usually involves festive aspects. From the most typical Catalan festivals– cultural week close to Sant Jordi’s Day, the Town’s Main Festival in July on Holy Magdalene’s Day, Town’s Secondary Festival in September on Saint Nicholas’ Day, Saint Lucy’s Day Celebration in December– to the more specific events in Canyelles such as Canyelles Craftwork Fair or the “Puntaires” meeting –people who make a special kind of knitted fabrics– and metal tops from cava bottles in October or the painting contest, in December..
Fires are very populars
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