Protected production zone

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Protected production zone

Production of both the milk and cheese always takes place in the Basque Country or Navarra (except in the Roncal Valley zone).

All developed as it has due to the natural landscape in the zone, especially so in the case of IDIAZABAL – a thoroughly genuine and spontaneous product. With almost no variation, throughout more than eight thousand years, since Neolithic times, shepherds and sheep have followed the same ancient routes that are determined by the seasons: High pastures in spring, summer and autumn, the valleys in winter, in order to benefit from the natural nourishment that follows this unchangeable cycle.