Asturian-American Migration Forum

Thank you! Tampa and the Ybor City area is definitely a "charmed" place. There is a small Ybor City Museum that is a nice overview of the area's past. Across the street from there is Immigrants park, which has a lovely statue and a row of plaques bearing the names of some of the early resi...

Hi! I found your site while searching for bollina recipes - and it was a difficult item to find info about - Kept getting "corrected" by the spell check and given alternate spellings! I grew up in Ybor City in Tampa, Florida. It was a community of immigrants from Spain, Asturias, Galicia (...

Does anyone know of the "Probe la manta"? This was a caped character that would prowl around and snatch children who wandered too far from home. My abuela would tell us this story to keep us from going too far and onto the busy road nearby. I don't know if the name, spelling, or pronunciat...

Hello! I am new to this site and as I was browsing found a reference to El Coco. I just let out a yelp and was excited to find it! We have asked around and searched a bit for info on this character with little result. I did find a site that describe El Coco rather like the one my abuela used to desc...