{"id":5064,"date":"2021-06-18T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:37:23","slug":"villar-at-the-heart-of-extremadura-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/villar-at-the-heart-of-extremadura-country\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Villar: At the heart of Extremadura country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icvillar.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Industrias C\u00e1rnicas Villar\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> connections with Extremadura go back as far as 1960. Purveyors of the best Iberian pork for over 60 years, with expertise in breed selection, raising animals and the elaboration of quality hams and cold meats.<\/p>\n<p>At their factory located at the heart of the Extremadura countryside, in\u00a0<strong>Burguillos del Cerro (Badajoz, Spain)<\/strong>, they prepare their Iberico products in a privileged enclave that benefits greatly from the clean, fresh air of the Extremadura mountains for the duration of the curing process to achieve the bouquet and characteristic flavour of <strong>Villar<\/strong> Iberico ham.<\/p>\n<p>Over 150,000 Iberico hams and shoulders are produced in\u00a0<strong>Burguillos del Cerro, Badajoz, Spain<\/strong> in the categories of Cebo (grain fed), Cebo de Campo (natural feed based), Bellota (acorn fed) and Bellota with the\u00a0<strong>Designation of Origin \u00abDehesa de Extremadura\u00bb <\/strong>seal. The Bellota pieces marked with the counter label\u00a0of the Spanish Designation of Origin represent 10% of the total production controlled by the D.O.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RTvY4MwZrk4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>When you discover Villar&#8217;s Iberico products you walk right into the heart of Extremadura country<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>We invite you to find out for yourself<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5021 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-146x146.jpg 146w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Villar-en-el-coraz\u00f3n-de-la-dehesa-extreme\u00f1an-720x720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrias C\u00e1rnicas Villar\u2019s connections with Extremadura go back as far as 1960. Purveyors of the best Iberian pork for over 60 years, with expertise in breed<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costafood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}