Cheese towns, markets and caves
8 places where cheese is made, aged, traded and eaten, with a trail idea for each.
Europe
Caves and cellars, France, 1 cheeseCombalouCaves and cellars, France, 1 cheeseGorges du TarnCaves and cellars, France, 1 cheeseRoquefort-sur-SoulzonA village built against a collapsed limestone cliff, whose caves and their cold drafts are the only place Roquefort may be aged.Caves and cellars, Italy, 1 cheeseValsassinaCaves and cellars, SpainCabralesA valley in the Picos de Europa where a strong blue cheese is aged in natural limestone caves.Caves and cellars, United KingdomCheddar GorgeThe Somerset village and limestone gorge that named the world's most made cheese, with cheese still aged in its caves.Caves and cellars, FranceFort des RoussesA nineteenth-century military fort in the high Jura whose vaulted galleries now age tens of thousands of wheels of Comté.Caves and cellars, United KingdomWookey Hole