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Close your eyes and enjoy the typical flavours of the area. Open them and discover our cuisine, with natural products straight from the vegetable garden and orchard. Meat, fish, pulses, fruit and vegetables – a complex blend of flavours which will give you a fuller experience of life.
Tasting the earth we are visiting, and never leaving it without being familiar with its flavour.
Every moment, every season, every landscape, brings its own flavour, its own cuisine. An aroma that has come into being for the very purpose of awakening within each one of us the most delicate and unique of pleasures.
When the mushroom season is almost over in the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, the time is ripe for it to begin in the Alcornocales Park. Cork oak and gall oak groves, as well as pine tree forests, are then in mushroom-filled splendour.
Come with us and you will enjoy the fragrance of Black Trumpets (Craterellus Cornucopioides), picking Boletus, or admiring the beautiful Cantharellus Cibarius and the well-known Milk Caps (Lactarius Deliciosus) in one of Europe’s richest mycological environments.
Welcome to the hotel and talk “Introduction to Mycology” and “100 Mushrooms from the La Amoraima Estate”, by prestigious mycologists (Mrs. Pilar Ferrer Agarrado and Mr. Luis Federico Sánchez).
Small groups will be given a talk and a Power Point presentation, together with materials related to the subject.
- 08:30: Pick up and visit to the Alcornocales Natural park for a mushroom hunt. During the walk, the mycologists will explain the different species found. The gathering point will vary, according to the weather in previous days.
- 13:00: After the walk, a mushroom identification workshop will take place. In this activity, the different mushroom specimens collected during the morning will be identified.
- 14:30: Return to the hotel and lunch. Free time.
- 20:00: Live mushroom cooking show and themed dinner prepared by the Hotel Castellar restaurant.
- 11:00: Exhibition of the mushrooms collected on the previous day and closing session of the “Mushroom Days” with the corresponding certificate of participation.
- 12:00: Check-out.
- Long trousers.
- Hat or cap.
- Raincoat.
- Rucksack and water.
- Sun cream.
- Footwear suitable for the countryside.
- Knife.
- Collection basket (very important!).
Mushroom gathering can not always be guaranteed, as we are fully dependent on nature. However, to ensure the client’s satisfaction the outing would focus on other complementary aspects, such as botany, flora and fauna in the Natural Park, etc.
