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Feria Nacional del Queso in Trujillo

Around 1 May, the Plaza Mayor of Trujillo in Extremadura fills with Spanish, Portuguese and Italian cheesemakers.

Vista panorámica de la ciudad desde el Este.
Photo: Luis Fermín TURIEL PEREDO, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cheeses for Feria Nacional del Queso in Trujillo

Trujillo, in the province of Cáceres, has held a national cheese fair since the 1980s, usually around the first weekend of May. Some eighty cheesemakers set up stands in the arcaded Plaza Mayor, with hundreds of cheeses to taste, along with talks and tastings for the trade. Extremadura's own cheeses take pride of place: Torta del Casar, a sheep's-milk cheese set with thistle rennet, so soft that the top is cut off and the inside eaten with a spoon, and Ibores, a goat's cheese rubbed with paprika and oil. Visitors buy tasting tickets and walk the stands.

The cheeses

Torta del CasarThistle-set sheep's cheese, eaten with a spoon.IboresGoat's cheese rubbed with paprika and oil.

Also part of it, and being written: Manchego (Spain's best-known sheep's cheese, always on show.).

About this page

Written by the EveryCheese desk with AI assistance. Background: "Trujillo, Spain" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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