Now that there are more source of information on the internet about Cardielos, it is becoming more easy to actually find fresh local news to post, as to keep an updated diary of what happens in my home village.
During the past weekend, 15 and 16 May, during the village carnival, a showcase of some of the local handcrafts where shown to the public.
Cardielos is very well know for its typical embroidery with designs that have lasted for centuries.

Good news for all the Cardielos citizen in other countries, the Cardielos parish has now a website with a lot of useful information, and with a lot of multimedia material with references to the village and to actions being done by the parish.
The url is http://paroquiacardielos.com

While browsing on the internet, I have came by luck to a new site about Cardielos, and more specifically about the Galiza's pipes band, that have been created a couple of years ago.

The site has not been update since its creation, but there is a very interesting note about the history of the band, and how it was created, which I think can game a general interest for the readers of Cardielos.net.

"The pipe's band was created in Cardielos by the effort and interest of our neighboor  Mr Jo?o Afonso, that sharished the dream of some day he might be able of having a pipe's band.

The Cultural house of Cardielos began the project in 2003 with the training of several Cardielos's youths interested in belonging to such a Band. Other people from the surrounding villages also joined and finally six youths from the Galiza's town of Porri?o, also joined the group. Trained by teacher Manolo, with a large experience in the pipe's championships. Byt 26-05-2007, the official presentation was done with the presence of several portuguese and spanish political and cultural entities ."

 http://www.gaitascardielos.com

While searching for new information sources about Cardielos on the internet, I have found that new videos have been posted  in youtube about the village.

One is still about the eastern, and about the "mordomos" who carries the cross from house to house, the remainings about how foreign people actually like Cardielos to hold their special events, and the top of S?o Silvestre or the park around the Lima river are being intensively used by people coming out of the village in search of a good place to have fun.

There is a tradition in Cardielos, around easter, where some of the village mens, are actually getting by themselves into a huge banquet with only other mens, steaks and a lot of wine. When I lived in Cardielos, I actually didn´t knew this tradition, but in the last years, every time that I am going home to spend my holidays easter, I am actually bombed with the news, in the press, tv and Radio.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.falcaodominho.pt/jornal/index.php?=fm_news.php?nid=5470

Bife da Páscoa comido só por homens em Cardielos

Viana do Castelo, Quinta, 16 de Abril de 2009

Depois do jejum da pascoal, a tradição repetiu-se em Cardielos, Viana do Castelo, onde num almoço proibido a mulheres, cerca de duas centenas de homens se sentaram à mesa para degustar o “Bife da Páscoa”.

Manuel Correia, um dos organizadores do evento revelou que tinham sido disponibilizados perto de 200 quilos de “boa carne”, ou não fossem os convivas especialistas no “bom bife da Páscoa”. Entre os homens, muitas caras repetidas convivem anualmente, mas há sempre “estreias” no evento. Este ano registou-se a presença de um dos mais novos amantes do bife da Páscoa: com 12 anos, Pedro Filipe, veio com o pai de Castelo de Paiva. Tocador de concertina “foi convidado para tocar aqui e eu vim com ele, acabei por ficar viciado neste bife e viemos outra vez”. Pedro Filipe garantiu que estava a gostar e outras presenças seguramente se haveriam de repetir se o “pai o trouxer”. Do outro lado da mesa, ouve-se a voz do patriarca: “claro que sim, a partir de agora vimos sempre juntos”. Também Nuno Aragão, se estreava no almoço. “Uns amigos fizeram-me o convite e eu vim” disse confessando ter ficado “já adepto” do evento que até “tem um bom bife da Páscoa e o sossego de não haver mulheres”, disse em tom de brincadeira. Recorde-se que a presença de mulheres no almoço chegou a ser votada, mas uma esmagadora maioria rejeitou continuando, assim, elas de fora. Quem está sempre presente é Silvestre Rocha, reformado da Policia, onde esteve ao serviço durante 33 anos. É dele o célebre recorde dos sete bifes comidos e bem regados com três garrafas de vinho em 2004. A marca histórica ainda hoje prevalece, embora o apetite agora seja outro: “na altura tinha 59 anos, agora tenho que comer com mais moderação”, disse Silvestre Rocha. Mas continuo bom garfo, garantiu enquanto foi buscar o Título de registo de Marca Nacional obtido em Setembro de 2007 para a iniciativa de Cardielos.

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Escrito por Redacção

11-Abr-2009

Centenas de homens sentam-se hoje  à mesa, em Cardielos e Santa Marta de Portuzelo, Viana do Castelo, para comer o "Bife da Páscoa", cumprindo um ritual iniciado há meio século e onde as mulheres não são admitidas. "Aqui, mulher só entra para cozinhar ou servir à mesa", referiu fonte da organização. "Na brincadeira, dizemos que é para tirar a barriga de misérias após um longo jejum quaresmal, mas a verdade é que este é, apenas, um pretexto para um divertido convívio de amigos, em tempo de Páscoa", acrescentou. A tradição do "Bife da Páscoa" começou em Viana do Castelo, na lendária, mas já extinta, Pensão Restaurante Rio Lima, cujo proprietário, o mestre de cozinha Américo Correia, reunia um pequeno número de convivas para degustar a melhor carne dos talhos da cidade, exposta sexta-feira santa à porta dos estabelecimentos.

Snapshot of the easter in Cardielos

Easter in Cardielos is one of the most enjoyable traditions that is still alive in Cardielos and that can be transmitted by the energy and happyness shown in a video that I have found in youtube.

Easter in Cardielos is centered around the last days and resurrection of Jesus Christ, on sunday and monday, a silver cross is taken from house to house across the village to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and to bring the benidiction to the house and the people that have gathered in it. Usually the houses are open to any one, but only friends and family are actually present. After the cross moves away to another house, the guests are invited to eat and drink a vast quantity of delicious dishes, desserts and sweets. Since most of the people are actually going to several houses, you can actually see, that everyone ends up eating and drinking enough to pass lunch and dinner ;)

While searching for information about Cardielos on the net, I have come to the blog a new musica group created a couple of years ago in Cardielos, to play  Galizian Pipes, which are more or less of the same family than scottish pipes. The group have been collecting some success throughout Portugal and Spain.

Cardielos has always been a village with a long tradition of musical activity, and in the last years ( from what I remember) have seen the creation of several music initiatives like a music school, a all-girls musical group "lirios do campo", a folkloric group "As bordadeiras da casa do povo de Cardielos", a music band "Evolusom" and now this new pipes group.

It is very good to see that the village is keeping is cultural activity moving straight forward.

http://bandadegaitasdesantiagodecardielos.blogspot.com/

Cardielos using twitter

For those that don´t know twitter, it is a microblogging tool that allows people to keep track about someone or someplace in easy way through small messages (SMS like). The tool is being very strongly used by a lot of people across the world, and I have decided to incorporate it in this site :).

Unfortunetly, the tag Cardielos was already being used by someone, and I have had to use the ecardielos one, e for electronic.

The url is http://twitter.com/e_cardielos

Since Cardielos is a very rich place in handcraft, I have decided to create a special category to track what can be found in Cardielos.

I have read in a recent article by the portuguese deparment of forests (Direccao Geral de Florestas) that two old trees, located in the top of Saint Sylvester hill, near the chapel, have been considered by the authorities, as trees of public interest.
These are really good news, as this will mean special care, for trees, that can have more than 200 years, and that as far as I can remember, were there in my childhood.
Since they are located near the chapel, they have protected with their branches the peregrines while eating during the romary. At the same time, the branches were also used to hang the speakers used to broadcast the musics and the Christian celebrations.
I hope that they will last more years, although the summer fires and the winds are making a tough mission, as proved by the accident, that one of the trees suffered a couple of years ago.