As well as excellent meat and fish the local produce includes an amazing array of pulses, with the famous bean stew or "fabada" made from an Asturian variety of large butter beans and sausages. Other versions of this dish are made with wild boar and on the coast with clams. There is an excellent selection of specialist cheeses and the region boasts to have one of the largest varieties of specialist cheeses of any area in Europe! In this mountainous region with its excellent pastures, there has historically been farming of goats, sheep and cows. The lack of communication between these traditional mountain communities has given rise to many different ways of making cheese from the different milks, thus producing such a large variety of cheeses. Probably the most famous is the "Cabrales" cheese, a strong blue cheese from the region of Cabrales. It is possible to visit traditional cheese producers, and the caves where some of these cheeses are stored to mature. At Hotel Posada del Valle we have a selection of some of the best specialist cheeses of the region.