A wide variety of

cheeses Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During productio ...

are made throughout the country of

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. Some of the Spanish cheeses are internationally renowned, such as the Manchego cheese of

La Mancha La Mancha () is a natural and historical region located in the Spanish provinces of Albacete, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, and Toledo. La Mancha is an arid but fertile plateau (610 m or 2000 ft) that stretches from the mountains of Toledo to th ...

. Some regions are better known for their cheeses than others; 26 cheeses are classified as

Protected Designation of Origin The protected designation of origin (PDO) is a type of geographical indication of the European Union and the United Kingdom aimed at preserving the designations of origin of food-related products. The designation was created in 1992 and its main ...

(D.O.P.—''Denominación de Origen Protegida'') by Spain and the European Union. Many of the cheeses are manufactured from single types of milk (cow, goat or sheep), but a few are mixtures of different milks, and the milk may be raw, pasteurised or creamy. The cheeses are made in a wide variety of styles including fresh, cured, semi-cured and pressed paste, and some are inoculated with mould to make blue varieties. There is a huge variation in the presentation of cheeses, from the hard, dark-skinned, two-kilo Manchego to the soft, small ''quesitos''. A list of Spanish cheeses follows, grouped by an alphabetical ordering of geographic regions.

Andalucía Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The ...

* Queso de las Alpujarras ( P.D.O.) * Queso de los Pedroches from raw sheep milk, mostly merino of Sierra de Cazorla, goat milk, cow milk and mixtures of all three * Queso payoyo of

Grazalema Grazalema is a village located in the northeastern part of the province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Situated in the foothills of the Sierra del Pinar mountain range (Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park), Grazalema h ...

, in the Sierra de Cádiz * Quesitos de Zuheros, Córdoba * Queso de Fuente Palmera Mainly goat milk with Quinkana brand and mixture milk (cow and goat) with brand "La Abuela Valle", near Cordoba, Sierra Morena and Guadalquivir Valley

Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and an, Aragón ; ca, Aragó ) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces (from north to s ...

* Queso de Tronchón, which was cited by Cervantes in

Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of West ...

, and made with sheep milk or mixed with goat milk * Queso Echo y Ansó * Queso de Biescas * Queso Patamulo * Queso de Radiquero * Queso de Benabarre * Queso Pañoleta * Queso de Sahún * Queso de El Burgo * Queso Chistabín

Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensiv ...

* Queso Cabrales (P.D.O.) * Queso de Afuega el pitu (P.D.O) * Queso de Los Beyos * Queso Casín (P.D.O.) * Queso de Gamonedo (D.O.) * Queso de Peñamellera * Queso de Urbiés * Queso de La Peral

Balearic Islands The Balearic Islands ( es, Islas Baleares ; or ca, Illes Balears ) are an archipelago in the Balearic Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The archipelago is an autonomous community and a province of Spain; its capital is ...

* Formatge de Maó, Menorca.(P.D.O.) * Formatge Mallorquí (P.D.O.)

Basque Country

* Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.) shared with Navarre and obtained from Lachen sheep

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, :es:Canarias, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to ...

* Queso majorero (P.D.O.) * Queso de flor (P.D.O.) * Queso palmero (P.D.O.) * Queso de la Gomera * Queso de Lanzarote * Queso herreño

Cantabria Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a ''comunidad histórica'', a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. It is bordered on the east ...

Picón Bejes-Tresviso Picón Bejes-Tresviso is a blue cheese from Cantabria, in the north of Spain. It has been protected under Denominación de Origen (DO) legislation since 1994, prior to which it was traditionally known as ''Picón de Tresviso'' and ''Queso Picó ...

(P.D.O.) is very similar to Asturian Cabrales, but also has unique features * Quesucos de Liébana (P.D.O.) * Queso Nata de Cantabria (P.D.O.) * Queso de Áliva, with an aroma similar to smoked beef * Queso de Brez * Queso Torta de Potes

Castile–La Mancha

* Queso Manchego (P.D.O.) * Queso de Oropesa

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of th ...

* Queso zamorano (P.D.O.) * Queso de Valdeón (P.D.O.) * Queso pata de mulo *

Queso castellano Queso (Spanish for "cheese") may refer to: * Chile con queso, a cheesy sauce * Queso Records * Queso blanco, a white cheese * Queso Chihuahua * Queso flameado * an obsolete TCP/IP stack fingerprinting tool that was well known in the late 1990s * Q ...

* Queso de Burgos * Queso del Tiétar

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

* Formatge de l'Alt Urgell i la Cerdanya (P.D.O.) * '' Formatge de la Garrotxa'' * '' Serrat'' (Pyrenees) * '' Llenguat'' (

Pallars Pallars is a historical and natural region of Catalonia. Located in the Pre-Pyrenees and Pyrenees area, most of its territory is mountainous. The Noguera Pallaresa river is named after this region. Geography The physiography of the Pallars nat ...

) * Mató * '' Tou dels Til·lers'' (

Pallars Sobirà Pallars Sobirà () is a comarca (comparable to a county or shire in much of the English-speaking world) in the mountainous northwest of Catalonia, Spain. The name means "Upper Pallars", distinguishing it from the more populous (and less mountain ...

) * ''

Tupí Tupí, also known as ''formatge de tupí'', is a fermented cheese of a certain area of the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees made from cows' or sheep's milk. It is a cheese traditionally prepared in the mountainous Pallars region, as well as in the Cerd ...

'' (Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees)

Extremadura Extremadura (; ext, Estremaúra; pt, Estremadura; Fala: ''Extremaúra'') is an autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, it ...

* Queso de La Serena, or Torta de La Serena (P.D.O.) * Queso Ibores (P.D.O.) *

Torta del Casar Torta del Casar ( ext, Torta del Casal) is a cheese made from sheep's milk in the Extremadura region of Spain. It is named after Casar de Cáceres, its city of origin. The milk is curdled using a coagulant found in the pistils of the cardoon, ...

(P.D.O.) * Quesaílla * Queso de Acehúche * Queso de la Siberia extremeña * Queso de Gata-Hurdes * Queso de la Vera

Galicia Galicia may refer to: Geographic regions * Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain Gallaecia, a Roman province The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia ** The medieval King ...

* Queso de Tetilla (P.D.O.) made from the milk of the

Rubia gallega The Rubia Gallega, gl, Rubia Galega, italic=no, is a breed of cattle native to the autonomous community of Galicia in north-western Spain. It is raised mainly for meat. It is distributed throughout Galicia, with about 75% of the population con ...

cow * Queso Arzúa-Ulloa (P.D.O.) * Queso Cebreiro (P.D.O.) * Queso San Simón da Costa

Murcia Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...

* Queso de Murcia al vino (P.D.O.) a cheese made from the pasteurized milk of Murcian goats * Queso de Murcia (P.D.O.) another cheese made from Murcian goat milk but with characteristics which differ from Queso al Vino

Navarre Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...

* Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.) * Queso Roncal (P.D.O.) * Queso Urbasa, Menhaden sheep milk * Queso Ribaforada, goat milk * Queso Cabanillas, goat milk * Queso Lesaca, cow milk or a mixture with goat milk

Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wi ...

* Queso blanquet * Queso de la Nucia * Queso de cazoleta * Queso de servilleta * Queso Tronchón

References

External links

Cheeses of Spain with Designation of Origin - www.queseros.com

{{Spanish cheeses

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* Spanish cheeses