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Queso de Roncal, denominación de origen

Roncal/Erronkari, Pirineo, Navarra

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Queso de Roncal, denominación de origen

Food and drink · Roncal/Erronkari, Pirineo, Navarra

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Roncal cheese, made from raw sheep's milk with an intense, robust, slightly piquant flavor, was in 1981 the first Spanish cheese to obtain a denominación de origen (designation of origin), protected at European level since 1996 (EC Regulation 1107/96). Its production area is the Mancomunidad de las Siete Villas (Association of the Seven Towns) of the Roncal valley: Burgui, Garde, Isaba, Roncal, Urzainqui, Uztárroz, and Vidángoz. The valley's livestock-herding and transhumance tradition goes back to grazing rights granted by King Sancho García in the year 882, and today it continues through the Cañada Real (Royal Drove Road) with more than 10,000 head of livestock a year.

1981

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