The town of Ricla, located in the Zaragoza region of Valdejalón, celebrates this weekend the ninth edition of the Cherry and Spring Onion Fair. This event highlights both emblematic products of the Ricla countryside, strengthens their commercialization, and organizes a wide program of activities for residents and tourists around them, with the defense of agriculture and permanence in rural areas as a common thread.
The event also serves to attract marketing and distribution companies, which are responsible for bringing these high-quality foods to numerous points nationally and internationally, indicated the PSOE, the party that governs the municipality.
The two days of the fair are mainly a collective celebration in which "the entire municipality gets involved" and, very notably, the students of the Maestro Monreal school, who exhibit the work developed throughout the course.
Around 20 sales stands have been set up in the municipal pavilion, where producers can display and offer their cherry and spring onion harvests, along with other items from Ricla farmers and creations by artisans from the region.
"The aim is for everyone to find something that satisfies them, for its quality and price, and also for a way of producing that combines responsibility, rigor, and care," emphasized the mayor, Ignacio Gutiérrez.
Throughout the two days, in the mornings and afternoons on Saturday and until 3:00 PM on Sunday, the public can enjoy tapas made with fair products in the town's bars and restaurants, a 'masterclass' given by the Topi hospitality training school, and a solidarity sale of books donated by the municipal library for the benefit of the Spanish Association Against Cancer. Among the most striking activities is the world championship of cherry pit spitting.
"For nine years, we have been focusing on our town, our products, and our work, trying to derive new economic niches linked to agriculture from the knowledge of Ricla, because it is our hallmark and our way of being and a form of rootedness that should be encouraged," said the mayor.
In parallel, according to Gutiérrez, "the people are prepared to welcome all visitors with open arms". "We have worked with enthusiasm to have every last detail prepared, so that whoever comes to Ricla enjoys an alternative and pleasant day and discovers, for those who do not yet know us, a very attractive town to consider life projects", he concluded.