Launched in 1999 by Slow Food unlike the taste ark which makes an inventory of endangered products, the sentries are in a second step to the effective and collective safeguard of 3 types of predefined products or practices.

🔸The traditional products .
🔸 Ancestral know-how and techniques .
🔸 Products or practices that shape a rural landscape.

Sustainable protection 🌱

To be protected, these products and practices must meet two essential criteria :

✅ Be clean .
✅ Be fair .

To date, 7 sentries are present in the Basque Country ,

Highlighting our sentinels

The Basque Country and its assets.

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Summer cheeses from the Basque Pyrenees

The sweet pepper of the Basque Country and Seignanx

The Brebis Manex Black Head

Grand Basque Grand Roux Corn "Arto Gorria "

Cider from the Northern Basque Country

Old varieties of Itxassou cherry

Kintoa Basque Pork

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