Valedores award and book

The Valedoría of the Empanada is the highest title awarded by the Empanada Festival of A Bandeira to influential individuals in the fields of communication, gastronomy, science, culture, sports, and more. This is in tribute to their brilliant careers.

The Valedores and Valedores of the Empanada undertake the following formal commitment:

1. To defend the Galician empanada as the flagship product of our gastronomy.
2. To support the Empanada Festival of A Bandeira and all the activities that make it up, becoming ambassadors wherever they go.
3. To eat Galician empanada in A Bandeira at least once a year.

• 2022 - Alfonso Rueda
• 2022 - Fernando Ónega
• 2022 - Pepe Domingo Castaño
• 2023 - Ana Pardo de Vera
• 2023 - Lode
• 2023 - María Lama
• 2023 - Lucía Veiga

In addition, the Empanada Festival has top-level ambassadors who decided to support the campaign for the declaration of the event as of National Tourist Interest:

• Chef Pepe Rodríguez
• Chef Martín Berasategui
• Mariano Rajoy
• Cristina Castaño and José Lamuño
• Roi Méndez, Luis Cepeda, Natalia Maquieira, Tamara García, and Xurxo Carreño