Milk And Cheeses - Val Camonica, Italy
An area dedicated to cattle breeding and dairy farming has been created in the vicinity of the "Dairy Cooperative Monte Bronzone" in Vigolo providing a building with services and equipment that can accommodate 40 to 50 people and hst lectures, as well as meetings for sampling products. Stracchino Bronzone is a typical soft table cheese. It has ancient origins, perhaps dating back before the tenth century. For the farmers on the hills overlooking the lakes of Endine and Iseo, this cheese has always been the traditional product par excellence, even though no historical evidence of this exists. Some documents from the 1940s confirm that in those days refresher and advanced courses on processing techniques were periodically organised in the area. Although supported by technical devices imposed b.y the recent EU standards, even today this process still continues on an artisanal level in keeping with the oldest traditions. It is a cheese made with whole cow's milk with