Creamery

Creamery of Plan-d’Introd

Founded in 1890 by 22 inhabitants of the village, the « Société de laiterie de Plan Introd » buyed, in 1908, a part of a large building (also housing the oven and the wash-house of the village), to settle down. The company has been organized inspiring from Switzerland’s Valais model, without a “fruitier”, so each associate, when it was his turn, used to make cheese and butter for everybody. The dairy-farm kept producing until the Seventies, and still has its original machineries.

Restored thanks to UE project Alcotra 2007/2013 n° 85 « traditions actuelles », the creamery now hosts, from 2011, the “traditional techniques of milk processing museum”. The visit to the museum is included in 6 p.m. Introd Castle’s entering ticket, when opened.

The creamery of  Les Villes-Dessus

This construction has been built by the inhabitants of the villages of  “Les Villes-Dessus” and “Norat”, in order to “construire une maison pour la laiterie sociale des Villes dessus et chambres pour écoles”, (build a house for the social dairy-farm of Villes-Dessus and rooms for schools). Each family contributed proportionally to the number of cows owned. Finished between 1913 and 1914, the creamery had a cellar for cheese maturing, and was equipped with a water turbine, fed by an ancient source. On the first floor there was the bedroom of “fruitier” and another room used as a school-room. The dairy-farm continued its production until the half of the Eighties.
Restored thanks to UE project Alcotra 2007/2013 n° 85 « traditions actuelles », the creamery is now an interactive learning center, especially conceived for students and their families, to discover the traditional milk production.

The center is opened from July 1st to September 9th, every day, from 11 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

For further informations

Fondation Grand Paradis
Tel: +39 0165 749264
info@grand-paradis.it
www.grand-paradis.it
www.comune.introd.ao.it