{"id":173,"date":"2016-02-04T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grapevinelifestyle.wordpress.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2024-10-08T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T07:31:11","slug":"la-fiesta-de-la-matanza-en-ardales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/2016\/02\/04\/la-fiesta-de-la-matanza-en-ardales\/","title":{"rendered":"La Fiesta de la Matanza en Ardales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Sunday the 7<sup>th<\/sup> of February, Ardales will play host to the 20th annual <em>Fiesta de la Matanza<\/em>, literally translated as &#8220;The Slaughter Festival&#8221;. Although it&#8217;s translated name may not sound all that appealing, <em>La Fiesta de la Matanza<\/em> is a day in which the people of Ardales celebrate and pay homage to the animals that are used to make their local dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most popular gastronomic festivals in Andalucia, the event has grown yearly, this year extending&nbsp;the festival to the Saturday where the local bars will offer pork-based dishes at 3euros a portion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sunday event starts at noon, the large market selling typical products of the community set to live folklore music. There are plenty of free testers available, a great opportunity to try homegrown products and support the local businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the organization handed out over 3,000 free bowls of broth and over 10,000 sandwiches to celebrate the event. Expect fabulous local food, a buzzing atmosphere and merry-making a plenty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Fiesta De La Matanza En Ardales, M\u00e1laga 2014\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AfqtSjQSjGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday the 7th of February, Ardales will play host to the 20th annual Fiesta de la Matanza, literally translated as &ldquo;The Slaughter Festival&rdquo;. Although it&rsquo;s translated name may not<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/2016\/02\/04\/la-fiesta-de-la-matanza-en-ardales\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">La Fiesta de la Matanza en Ardales<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[593,597,598,599,600,601,447,452],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaga-lifestyle","tag-593","tag-ardales","tag-event","tag-feb","tag-festival","tag-fiesta-de-la-matanza","tag-grapevine","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}