Visit Teruel, Discover Albarracín And Join Us At La Quesería

Mudejar style in Teruel, the most typical and famous.

Teruel is a legendary city thanks to the famous story of the lovers of Teruel, it´s full of charming corners like the central Plaza del Torico, the aqueduct of the arches and the popular Paseo del Óvalo.

Aqueduct in Teruel

From the earliest times, several prehistoric and Iberian civilizations settled in the area of Teruel. Reaching the highest prosperity during the Middle Age, a wall was built around its perimeter to separate its Christian land from the Muslim kingdom of Valencia, right next to it.

Plaza del Torico

It was precisely this Islamic influence that left in Teruel and Aragon the most important Mudejar monuments of Spain. It´s a fusion of Gothic with Muslim architectural elements that make this style unique around the world.

Thanks to its history, Teruel is full of little charming streets to visit and wonderful museums, such as the Diocesan Museum of Teruel and the Provincial museum.

Near the city of Teruel are historic places and villages like Albarracín, declared a National Monument.

Albarracín was the former capital of a Moorish kingdom (Taifa), ever since it has preserved all its Islamic and mediaeval characteristics. This entire multicultural heritage brought a wide range of architectural and cultural styles and built the village as it is now; narrow, steep and unorganized streets are all around. The medieval defensive walls are much longer than the village itself. What we see today corresponds to three different periods of construction.

View of Albarracín and its wall

Albarracín also offers the opportunity to visit some museums; the Bishops Palace has a Diocesan Museum (Santa María Foundation) attached to it with a good collection of Flemish tapestries. Other museums that you should not miss are the museum of Albarracín, the Museum of theironworks and there is even a Toy Museum, all of them are places of great interest.

If after touring the whole day you still have strength enough to walk around a little more, we encourage you to go to any of the bars or restaurants in Albarracín and enjoy with a piece of the best cheese of the region; Cheese from Albarracín (Queso de la Sierra de Albarracín) accompanied with a revitalizing glass of wine. The fine texture and delicious flavour of our cheeses will help you out to recover some energy and it will be the best end of a journey that a person could ever have.
Surrounded by all this ancient heritage, La Quesería de Albarracín could not find a better environment to produce its cheeses, from taking care of its own ewe to the final process of tagging the cheeses; all respecting the artisan way of centuries of cheese culture.

Come visit us and enjoy all that Teruel, Albarracín and us can offer to you! Beautiful views and places and, of course, delicious food, specially jamón (Spanish ham) and our cheese.

We export cheese from Albarracín, Spain to the World

Where should we start with, to produce one of the best cheeses in the World? Well, first of all is growing the alfalfa that will feed our sheeps. That, added to the fine care that we take of them is surrounded by the incomparable background of Albarracín. What else could we ask for?

“It was all very natural” – says Alberto Asensio, the Director of Cheese from Albarracín- “We always believed that with good milk, an appropriate production process and an optimum period of maturation, it wouldn´t be hard to produce a good Cheese”.

Having our own flock is our most Added value. We know where the milk comes from; our lands in Albarracín, and we try to take the best care of the sheeps that we can. This Added value is very well appreciated in countries such as Japan, Qatar, Colombia and Holland, very different among them. The foreign clients are now the 5% of our total sells and growing.

“We always try to make our possible clients to come and see the production process and also enjoy the lands that surround the whole factory”- says Liewe Schwerzel, Export manager, from Holland- “Albarracín is not very well known but it´s a Middle-Age village with much charm, even one of our Japanese clients bought a house nearby”

Being a little factory doesn´t stop us from getting recognition not only in Spain but also around the World, the most important was the Gold Medal in the World Cheese Awards 2011, celebrated in Birmingham, UK. From there, Cheese from Albarracín started to be better known internationally and also nationally and the sells started to grow.

We are now thinking about exporting to two countries that know a lot about cheese: Germany and, why not? United Kingdom, since we got the award there it could be a great opportunity for us.

What is sure is that, no matter how much we grow, we´ll stand loyal to the family-factory concept that we have always had.

Come visit our online store and verify yourself that what we say is true and, of course, totally worth it!