An unsuspecting artist: The Montbeliarde cow

If not for this cow, with a beautiful white and red-speckled coat, these landscapes would not be what they are: vast spaces devoted to pastures, scattered here and there with farms, long dry-stone walls and spinneys. Without this cow, the cheese would not be as famous as it is either! Their milk alone allows for the local production of protected designation of origin cheeses such as comté, the bleu de Gex and morbier.