Delicatessen
The valley’s signature products come straight from its meadows and beech forests.
Mycological Week and Mushroom Day
Would you like to get started in the world of mushrooms and fungi?
Then the Ultzama Valley Mycological Park is the place for you, and its Mycological Week is an unmissable event. The highlight takes place in its capital, Larraintzar, with Mushroom Day—an event that brings together mushroom enthusiasts alongside a market featuring vendors, artisans, the truffle museum, and a central exhibition of fresh mushrooms showcasing a wide variety of species. Children can enjoy the play area or stroll along the park’s trails with their families. And for every palate, in addition to organic corn cakes with mushrooms, do not miss the delicious mushroom-based pintxos prepared by the valley’s bars and restaurants.
Sign up for these mushroom immersions—available throughout most of the year—while enjoying the green meadows and picturesque villages of the Ultzama Valley. Each month offers a different variety of mushrooms, and the Mycological Park also provides both in-person and online courses.
Mycological menu
The Orgi restaurant offers a variety of dishes made with mushrooms and fungi, as well as a mycological tasting menu consisting of five courses and a dessert, prepared according to seasonal mushroom availability.
Mushroom dishes are available year-round, although the mycological menu is typically seasonal.
Mamia and curd day
Elders of the Ultzama Valley tell how, when they were young and life revolved around livestock farming and agriculture, shepherds spent long periods in the mountains, alone with their sheep as their only company. During the harsh winter months, they sheltered in huts surrounded by their animals to withstand the biting cold.
According to tradition, shepherds carried food for several days in a satchel and, if they were lucky, received visits from family members bringing news from home and warm meals. However, these resilient Ultzama shepherds had a secret to endure long days of herding: curd, known in Basque as “mamia”. This dairy product is made mainly from sheep’s milk with the help of a natural ferment, rennet.
Its origins lie in Navarre, with the epicenter in the Ultzama Valley, where curd reaches exceptional quality thanks to the milk and the care taken in its preparation.
The real magic, what makes this product special, lies in the traditional preparation method. Shepherds used a distinctive wooden vessel known as a “kaiku” for milking, and later, using the same container and heated stones, they boiled the milk. This process gave the curd its characteristic toasted or smoky flavor, known in Basque as “kizkilurrin”.
When you arrive in Ultzama and taste its curd, do not expect a gelatinous texture, but rather a creamy, indulgent spoonful of sheep’s milk curd.
Ultzama Desserts
In the Navarrese valley of Ultzama, this family business was founded, specializing in traditional sheep farming and the artisanal production of high-quality local dairy products.
In the past, sheep’s milk was collected in a wooden birch container called a kaiku. Since it could not be placed directly over fire, glowing stones (esne harriak) were used to heat the milk, giving it a distinctive toasted aroma and flavor known as kizkilurrin. To preserve this tradition, Ultzama Desserts produces sheep’s milk with this characteristic flavor, allowing you to prepare traditional curd at home. The result is a range of homemade desserts made from freshly milked sheep’s milk, produced with respect for the environment.
www.postresultzama.com
N-121-A, km 25, 31798 Lantz, Navarra
L-V
9:00-14:30 / 16:30-19:00
+34 948 30 72 77
info@postresultzama.com
Goshua
Since 1960, Goshua has been producing desserts and yogurts based on traditional recipes, aiming to reach you with every spoonful—through flavor, aroma and texture, and even through the unmistakable feel of its terracotta jar.
Goshua is much more than a dessert. It represents the value of tradition, respect for the past, a firm commitment to natural products and love for nature. It is the story of a flavor made up of countless small tales that we would like to share with you.
Bigaultzama
At Bigaultzama, we bring the meat of our calves directly to your home.
We are a small organic beef cattle farm.
Our calves are raised alongside their mothers, feeding on pasture and mother’s milk in the meadows of Ultzama.