TOUR IN SERRA DA ESTRELA

Tour Serra da Estrela for those who want a tour rich in gastronomy and also have some curiosity in relation to the Serra da Estrela.

A perfect tour to get to know Serra da Estrela cheese better, which serves as pasture for the “Serra da Estrela” or “Churra Mondegueira” sheep, considered by many to be the best dairy products, so that the cheese reaches the best quality , should always be made from the same milking. Even today, cheesemaking and its ritual are traditionally done, as it was hundreds of years ago, where shepherds leave with the herd in the morning and return in the late afternoon.

Their families make the cheese according to the family techniques, the shepherd carefully chooses the pasture of his sheep, because certain herbs give bad taste to the milk and every day, the shepherd milks the sheep at nightfall, after which his Woman prepares milk to make cheese.