value obtained by natural selection and hard work of farmers through centuries, finally recognized as a unique gastronomic value.

The Istrian cattle once helped the farmers work the fields and pulled stones for house and wall building, fed on poor pastures they gave just a bit of milk to feed the family. Today their meet is prepared as authentic natural gastronomic delicacy, peculiar to this area.

The tradition of flavours, once again returning to the kitchens of most prestigious restaurants and into the limelight of renowned gourmets, enriches the tourist offer of the Istrian region giving new life to ancient cooking methods offering delicious aromas which once used to spread from the rural homes of Istria.

Boiled or simmered, baked under the baking lid on an open hearth, stewed and served with home made pasta, flavoured with wild herbs or marinated in home-made oil… these are only some of the ways in which this unique meat can be prepared, ways originating in old domestic kitchens and handed down to us by our grandparents.

The term "domestic" has become a magical word, it describes the meat of the Istrian cattle, it evokes nostalgia and adds grandeur to your stay in Istria, the peninsula that will surprise you again and again.