In three deep valleys hidden in between the mountains of the northern Spanish province of Cantabria live a community of people known as Pasiegos. Although their origins remain unknown, the Pasiegos differ greatly both in ethnicity and social traditions from their neighbours living further down those rivers, on the flatlands near the sea. Isolated inside their mountains for centuries, the Pasiegos have developed a particular way of life always focused around cow breeding.
Since the ’80s, Pasiegos are struggling to adapt their steep-land agricultural traditions to the new and more demanding farming tendencies imposed by the EU.
Tourism has since then, become an important source of income for this community.
