1. Bat
Ordizia Market
Tomatoes who smell to tomato
The Ordizia market is the summum of the products in
Euskadi and is part of the history of Goierri. A tradition that is maintained every Wednesday of the year since
the Middle Ages with the permission of Juana La Loca, who granted Ordizia “the royal power to celebrate the free weekly market”.
Here the tomatoes are grown outdoors in the orchards of nearby farms and therefore smells to tomato. Aroma and flavour to tomato but also apple, pear, plum, lettuce, mushroom, pod and chard, pepper and onion.
2. Bi
Idiazabal cheese
Ours shepherd´s gifts
Idiazabal cheese has been awarded among the best in the world, with gold medals at the World Cheese Awards and declared European Gastronomic Heritage.
Our shepherds are dedicated to take care our Latxa sheep – the native Basque sheep – and to produce this exquisite cheese made with raw milk, with a minimum of two months of healing.
Visit an artisanal cheese factory – meet the shepherd and his sheep – learn, taste and buy Idiazabal Cheese, is the essence of Goierri.
Come to the village of Idiazabal, which gives name to the origin denomination, where is the Idiazabal cheese Interpretation and Tasting Center and organize visits to cheese factories.
3. Hiru
Make pancakes in a mill
Our corn cakes
The talos are delicious pancakes – corn flour, water and salt – used as bread in the houses of the Basque Country. You can learn to make them in one of the most beautiful places of the historical-artistic heritage of the Goierri, in the Medieval Mill of the Monumental Complex of Igartza, located in Beasain, operating until
1982.
It is an ideal plan for children: knead the flour with water making a compact ball, strong blows to flatten the dough and iron. You can eat the talos with chocolate or can also be taken with Idiazabal cheese.
The visit to the Monumental Complex includes the Palace, the Hermitage, the Forge, the bridge, and the remains of a wooden dam of the 16th century, unique
in Europe.
4. Lau
Centre d´Elikatuz
Learn about Basque gastronomy
What are the other secrets of Basque gastronomy? D´Elikatuz is a meeting point of culture and gastronomy, food and gastronomy museum and interpretation center – in Ordizia – where the typical products of Goierri are the protagonists and Idiazabal cheese of course, the star.
Visiting the market of Ordizia – the Wednesdays – and then passing through D’Elikatuz, where there is also the regional tourist office, is certainly a plan that will open your appetite.
5. Bost
Basabe, our beer
Funny tastings
It is the craft beer from Goierri, soft andlight, ideal for our “poteo”.
Created by three friends who in 2018 launched the only brewery cooperative in the area, they have managed to produce a rich and cheap beer that you will only find in Goierri, because the 30,000 bottles they produce each year are consumed in the region.
You can make a tasting of the most authentic for 10 € and taste about 7 beers. Urtzi and Markel will explain to you how they make their beer and some secrets as that of the beer foam myth, or if it is better in tin or bottle; but above all you will enjoy it “always with the full glass.”
Basabe beer must be taken – like all craft beers – in a wide glass and not too cold. When you serve it, pour three quarters of it, then remove the pot of the bottle to remove all the substance and aroma, and serve it.
6. Sei
Txakoli with Idiazabal cheese
Tastings for an exquisite pairing
Fantastic pairing between Idiazabal cheese and `Bengoetxe’, the unique txakoli produced in Goierri. Iñaki Etxeberria is the producer, in a small family cellar in Olaberria, of an exquisite ecological txakoli. With more structure and degrees -about 12- and less acidity
than the txakoli of the coast, due to the climate of Goierri and the orientation of its hillsides.
The tastings are made in a 1611 winery located on the Dolarea Hotel, in the Igartza Monumental Complex in Beasain with a master of wines and Golden Nose, Iban Mate, who does not serve the txakoli from the top and serves it in glass cup. The three Idiazabal cheeses that accompany the tasting are so exquisite that it can be ingested the cortex, and enhance the taste of txakoli
(and vice versa).
7. Zazpi
Iztueta farm
Visit an authentic farm
At Iztueta farm we have lived for generations linked to the land and the animals. Together with the wisdom of our ancestors, our work is linked to the land, keeping us in direct contact with nature.
In order to offer our customers healthy food, we obtain quality milk, taking care of the environment, ensuring the welfare of our animals and working in a sustainable and dignified manner. Our aim is always to take care of the Basque farmhouse and our heritage.
At Iztueta we would like to invite you to visit our farmhouse. In addition to our way of life, you will have the opportunity to get to know the incomparable landscapes of Lazkaomendi, see our stables, our oxen, our dairy cows and enjoy a tasting of our high quality products, our yoghurts and ice creams.
8. Zortzi
Gastronomy of its own character Eating
Cider, bone steak, cheese and black pudding
Eating in Goierri is an immersion in the Rural Euskadi cookbook. Take our cod omelette, brased bone steak or rib, a grilled fish accompanied by a glass of cider, Beasain’s black pudding with beans and a piece of Idiazabal cheese with sweet apple and nuts.
Our traditional Basque kitchen cookbook is extensive.
Cider houses, grill and restaurants – which you can consult on our website– to enjoy a genuine experience.
9. Bederatzi
Gastronomic fairs
The best way to show the best of the Goierri
The gastronomic fairs of the Goierri start on 15th of March in Zegama, with the celebration of the Beekeeping Fair. A fair where we will have the opportunity to know everything around the world of honey.
On 8th of April, the village of Ordizia hosts Artzain Eguna or Shepherd Day. This event is about the world of shepherding and cheese; this day the official presentation of the new season of Idiazabal cheese is celebrate and usually the guest is an important person related to the world of gastronomy. This day is celebrated one of the 3 extaordinary Wednesday Ordizia markets and you can also see the flocks of sheep crossing the village as a symbol of their departure to the mountains for the summer season..
