Cheese Eco-Museum Factory (Large and Small Boğatepe)

Turkey / Kars / Susuz / Large and Small Boğatepe
 living history museum, cheese processing plant
Ekomüze Zavot = Eco-museum factory, opened in 2013 to culture cheese, conserve local animals and plants (30 local medicinal herbs used), operate a grocery and tasting area. Beginning about 1850 Swiss settlers inhabited 10 local villages. About 1878 Swiss businessman David Moser founded this cheese-making factory. The Swiss taught local residents, including Spiritual Christians from Russia resettled to Kars after 1890 when Russia captured and occupied this territory, to make hard cheeses, similar to Swiss cheese (with gas bubble holes) and Gruyère hard yellow cheese. — tinyurl.com/peynirmuzesi — twitter.com/peynirmuzesi — "Gruyere in Kars, Swiss Cheese in Eastern Anatolia", 22/08/2013 katieparla.com/gruyere-kars-gravyer-cheese-anatolia/
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Coordinates:   40°48'16"N   42°53'28"E
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