The Sidra de Nava Festival is held in Nava, the cider capital of Asturias during the second weekend of July and the previous week, this activity is of great relevance for the municipality with its countless presses and cider stations, its apple plantations or regions fully crowded with apples, its impressive Cider Museum and mostly, the festival, that is one of the most important of the region, an annual homage to the cider, and declared a feast of National Tourist Interest. In this even, a series of cultural events are made around the cider, talks, debates, expositions, without forgetting the festive character of the event.

The Navas Council is located in the central-eastern side of Asturias, limiting at the north with the Sariego, Cabranes and Villaviciosa councils, at the south with Laviana and  Piloña and in the east with this  last council and in the west with the councils of Bimenes y Siero.

Nava, is the capital of the cider in Asturias therefore and since 1969, this festivity is made in the locality with a museum that offers a detailed study of the history and characteristics of this beverage.

During the second weekend, this town, founded in the 13th Century, with merely 6 000 inhabitants and located at some 31 kilometres from Oviedo, suffers an authentic transformation. Its streets change of colour, the number of inhabitants double thrice and the joy and good humour can be found all over the place.

The only thing that does not suffer any change is the sweaty smell invading everything, because during the three days the party lasts, the Asturian beverage per se seems to fall from heaven. More than 2000 litters of cider are freely distributed among the visitors; the restaurants are no familiar with any other ingredient in their kitchens and traditional barrels or casks are strategically placed in the presses of the city.

The weekend also celebrates the “International Contest of Female or Male Cider Distributors” and the tasting of the cider made by the Association of the Presses of Traditional Cider of Nava, offering thousands of free litters of this drink for visitors willing to join the feast, with the sole condition of knotting a green colour scarf around the neck to distinguish themselves as friends and supporters of this delicious beverage.  

In order to know the history on this tradition between one cider and the next one, you need to go to the museum (open from 12.00 hour to 14.00 hour, and from 16.00 hour to 20.00 hour). Afterwards, you may recover yourself from so many drinks in  some of the springs surrounding Nava. The healing quality of these waters, mainly the one at Fuensanta, is known since Roman times.