Discover
Ciders, styles, apple varieties and production methods from different territories.
16th edition · Xixón · Asturies
Much more than a cider competition
The SISGA brings together ciders of quality, producers, professionals and territories to taste, recognize and connect cider cultures from around the world.
The meeting
Try, recognize and connect
The International Gala Sidres Fair combines an experience open to the public with a professional space and a quality international competition.
Recognize
An international jury evaluates the participating ciders through tasting and awards the SISGA.
Learn about the awardsConnect
Producers, distribution, hospitality, press, institutions and the public share knowledge and opportunities.
The SISGA in action
A community around the cider
Each edition brings together knowledge, product and celebration in a single international meeting with Asturian roots.
A room to participate
Each audience finds its space
The SISGA is not a single activity: the program combines competition, training, tasting, professional meetings and institutional cooperation.
Trajectory
Sixteen editions building community
Since its first editions, the SISGA has grown around the competition, professional tastings, public dissemination and exchange between cider territories.
The continuity of the meeting allows us to gather a memory of producers, participating countries, award-winning ciders, posters and photographs.
Host territory
Asturies, a living cider culture
The SISGA is celebrated in the territory whose Asturian Cider Culture was recognized by UNESCO as Cultural Heritage Intangible Humanity.
This recognition corresponds to the Asturian cider culture, not to SISGA. The show starts from this context to share a living tradition and relate it with other producing cultures.
“A local identity that opens to the world without ceasing to belong to its territory.”
International dimension
A network that begins in cider and reaches the territory
The SISGA connects producers, municipalities and institutions. Professional relationships, European projects and new avenues for cultural cooperation are born from these meetings.
The permanent network
Cider Cities
European Network of Cider and Apple Cities. It unites territories with heritage, agriculture, economy and culture linked to the apple tree and cider.
- Created in 2023
- Cooperation between territories
- Stable vocation
The European project
CIDEREU
Programme developed within the framework of Cider Cities to activate initiatives on cider culture, traditional agriculture, sustainability and social cohesion.
- Programme 2026–2027
- European financing
- Budget: €253,000
The connection with Asia
SISGAJapan
Line of projection towards Japan and Asia to open cultural and professional relations around the gala ciders.
- International exchange
- New markets and audiences
- Cultural connection
The essential difference
Cider Cities is the network; CIDEREU is one of its projects
It connects cities, entities and agents of cider territories to share experiences and create new initiatives.
Convert part of this cooperation into activities financed and developed during 2026 and 2027.
What activates this cooperation
Cider as a development tool
- Agriculture and recovery of pumares
- Heritage and popular culture
- Tourism and gastronomy
- Innovation and local economy
- Sustainability and circular economy
- Citizen and youth participation
Asturian origin
From the international meeting to a stable collaboration
The continued contact during SISGA allowed us to verify that many European territories shared challenges: generational change, protection of varieties, conservation of the landscape and greater visibility for their producers.
The Fundación Asturies XXI promoted Cider Cities together with the City Council of Xixón, the Chamber of Commerce of Xixón and the Caja Rural Foundation of Xixón. The network later incorporated municipalities from different European regions.
Organization
An initiative of Fundación Asturies XXI
The Foundation coordinates the contest, the samples, the professional activities, the relationship with producers, press and the public, and the subsequent dissemination of the results.
Registered office of Fundación Asturies XXI
Fundación Asturies XXILa Calaeya'l Ríu 205
33394 Santuriu
Xixón - Asturies