Cheese Route

Although the best known of the cheeses of the Burgos lands is the fresh cheese called "Queso de Burgos", you can taste other cheeses, both sheep's milk, cow's milk or their mixtures, with different degrees of curing. Those of the highest quality are those made from "churra breed" sheep's milk.

They are usually compact cheeses with small eyes and not with excessive numbers, since as the saying goes "bread with eyes and cheese without them". They are matured cheeses from semi-cured to cured and from fatty to extra-fat. They can be kept from seven months to a year, some can even be kept up to three.

This route runs through the most identifying cereal fields of this land, irrigated with the water from the Castilla channel. The tour combines a visit to impressive temples, with Jacobean towns, as well as the possibility of knowing the lives and feelings of its people and the tasting of local products starring the cheese producers in this area.

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LOS BALBASES

With two Gothic churches the one of San Esteban stands out with the pictorial work of the Master of the Balbases. Close to this beautiful town, the possibility of visiting "La finca de Santa Rosalía" is offered in Vizmalo, with a winery, partridge farm and Waygu oxen.

CASTROJERIZ

It preserves its road layout and its importance in the route of the Camino de Santiago Francés. Examples of its wealth in another time are the churches of Santa María del Manzano, San Juan and Santo Domingo. A few kilometers away in Hinestrosa we can see the process of making the Mostelares cheese.

VILLASILOS

Following the picture of the towns in this area we find the San Andrés Church, Gothic 16th century. Population to know first-hand the artisanal elaboration of cheese with raw milk from their own sheep.

VILLASANDINO

It maintains an impressive artistic heritage from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in its temples, here the Via Aquitaine, one of the most important routes of the Roman Empire.

OLMILLOS DE SASAMÓN

We can see its Church of the Assumption, 16th century and the beautiful castle built in 1440. In front of the castle, the restaurant-hostel Castillo de Olmillos, offers homemade food. Nearby in Palacios de Benaver, convent life is maintained thanks to the M.M. Benidictinas.

SASAMÓN

The center of the town is the Iglesia Santa María la Real, with samples of the Gothic and various museums. The work of the artist Salaguti stands out for its originality; the building that houses the museum is his self-portrait. Its cheeses are famous throughout the national territory for their variety and quality

VILLADIEGO

Unique layout with remains of the ancient wall and main square with arcades. Visitable: Museum of Painting and Ethnography. Located in the church of San Lorenzo, this museum contains an interesting collection of sacred pieces from all over the archipelago of Amaya. Consolidated its mycological days that are celebrated every year on November 1st.

MELGAR DE FERNAMENTAL

Old mansions remain adorned with emblazoned shields. 16th century church with a baroque altarpiece. Very dear is the hermitage of the Virgen de Zorita and its pilgrimage that is celebrated on May 18. The ethnographic museum reflects the collective history of Melgarense daily life.