The Enchanting Pimiango Bookstore: Where Books and Gastronomy Meet

In eastern Asturias, on a plain that descends to the Cantabrian Sea with the Picos de Europa as decorationemerges a district that, at first glance, lives the calm of the rural dream. Pimiango is one of those places where the GPS gives up and the streets are few, but labyrinthine. And in one of its alleys, over a huge window with the appearance of a watchtower, a wooden sign reads “Tavern and lost books.”

The Pimiango Bookstore It is not a typical bookstore. Its owner, Esteban Raposo, says so and it becomes evident when crossing the threshold. This space, which any bibliophile would dream of, It means pointing it out on all the signs on the road so that no one passes by, but also hiding it to enjoy it exclusively. The volumes climb the walls, the stools, the tables, the ladder, the chairs, the windows, the floor and the bar. Yes, the bar, because Here you also drink, eat and taste, all with one condition: let the pairing be with books.

“Tavern and lost books.”

Pimiango Bookstore

A DREAM IN A HARBAR

What Esteban tells could well fit in one of the books that populate his shelves. While I worked between laboratories and quality controls for pharmaceutical companies in Madrid, planned a getaway north with his ex-wife, Celia. It was then that He fell so in love with the place that he acquired an old haystack with the intention of converting it into a vacation home, although, as the years went by, a very different project from that one began to form in his mind.

Almost two decades later, Esteban left his job, headed for Pimiango and focused on building from the foundations what is now a cultural center through which figures linked to the arts and sciences pass. With a first floor as a tavern, a second as a bookstore and a third as a home, On June 12, 2021, the Pimiango Bookstore opened its doors and it didn’t take long for him to need more hands. “I wanted to combine real gastronomy with real books, to be a cultural space with links to cuisine”, Explain.

2023-11-11 00:41:34
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