Feast of the Huevos Pintos

This festival is always held on the Tuesday following Easter Sunday. From early in the morning, the most historic and central area of La Pola Siero is filled with stalls decorated for the occasion where you can see and buy Pinto Eggs, with a wide variety of decorations and sizes, although most of them include in their artistic design motifs alluding to traditional Asturian culture, as well as different phrases and symbols.

A very special moment of this festival is the Blessing of the Huevos Pintos in the Town Hall square, and from that moment onwards there is cider, good food, bagpipes and festivities, culminating in an open-air dance that lasts until the early hours of the morning.

The tradition of the Huevos Pintos is of uncertain origin and dates back several centuries. Specifically in Siero, it has been passed down orally from generation to generation, and is perhaps linked - it is only a hypothesis - to the fact that they came from Central Europe to work in the mines in both Siero and Langreo, where the first hard coal deposits were explored.