Cattle towns, fairs and pastures
495 places where cattle are bred, traded, shown and honoured, with a trail idea for each.
South Asia
Cattle town, Pakistan, 2 breedsSindhCattle town, Pakistan, 2 breedsTharparkar DistrictFair or market, India, 1 breedAddankiCattle town, India, 1 breedAgarCity, India, 1 breedAhmednagar districtCattle town, India, 1 breedArunachal PradeshCattle town, India, 1 breedBalaghat districtCattle town, India, 1 breedBanahalliCattle town, India, 1 breedBargurCattle town, India, 1 breedBarwaniCattle town, India, 1 breedBelagaviCity, India, 1 breedBidarCattle town, India, 1 breedBijapurCattle town, India, 1 breedBikanerPasture, India, 1 breedBundelkhandCattle town, India, 1 breedChikkamangalorePasture, India, 1 breedChitoor DistrictCattle town, Bangladesh, 1 breedChittagong DistrictPasture, Bangladesh, 1 breedChittagong Hill TractsCattle town, India, 1 breedCoimbatorePasture, India, 1 breedDangsCattle town, India, 1 breedDarbhangaPasture, India, 1 breedDeccan PlateauCattle town, India, 1 breedDeoniA small Marathwada town in Latur district that gives its name to the Deoni, a spotted dual-purpose breed of the Deccan.Cattle town, India, 1 breedDharwadPasture, India, 1 breedGangaCattle town, India, 1 breedGanganagarPasture, India, 1 breedGir HillsCattle town, India, 1 breedGujaratFair or market, India, 1 breedGunturCattle town, India, 1 breedHardaPasture, India, 1 breedHaryanaCattle town, India, 1 breedHissarCattle town, India, 1 breedJaisalmerCattle town, India, 1 breedJalgaonCattle town, India, 1 breedJhajjarCattle town, India, 1 breedJindPasture, Myanmar, 1 breedKachin StateCattle town, India, 1 breedKangeyamCattle town, India, 1 breedKarnalCity, India, 1 breedKasaragod districtPasture, India, 1 breedKathiawarPasture, India, 1 breedKathiawar PeninsulaCattle town, India, 1 breedKhandwaCattle town, India, 1 breedKhargoneCattle town, India, 1 breedKolhapurPasture, India, 1 breedKrishna RiverCattle town, India, 1 breedKurukshetraCattle town, Pakistan, 1 breedLas BelaCity, India, 1 breedLaturCattle town, India, 1 breedLunkaransarCattle town, India, 1 breedMadhubaniPasture, India, 1 breedMalwa plateauCattle town, India, 1 breedMangaloreCattle town, India, 1 breedMedziphemaCattle town, Pakistan, 1 breedMehrgarhCattle town, India, 1 breedMysoreCattle town, India, 1 breedNagalandCattle town, India, 1 breedNagapattinamCity, India, 1 breedNandedPasture, India, 1 breedNarmada valleyCattle town, India, 1 breedOngoleThe coastal Andhra town behind the Ongole bull, the great white zebu that became the Nelore of Brazil.City, India, 1 breedOsmanabadCity, India, 1 breedParbhaniCity, India, 1 breedPilibhitCattle town, India, 1 breedPonwarPasture, India, 1 breedPrakasam DistrictCattle town, India, 1 breedPunganurA town in Chittoor district that gives its name to one of the smallest cattle breeds in the world.Pasture, India, 1 breedPunjabPasture, India, 1 breedRajkot districtCattle town, India, 1 breedRajnandgaon districtCattle town, India, 1 breedRamanagara districtPasture, India, 1 breedRann of KutchCattle town, India, 1 breedRohtakCattle town, Pakistan, 1 breedSahiwal DistrictCattle town, India, 1 breedSangliCattle town, India, 1 breedSataraCattle town, India, 1 breedShimogaCattle town, India, 1 breedSitamarhiCattle town, India, 1 breedThanjavurPasture, India, 1 breedThar DesertCattle town, India, 1 breedTiruvarurCattle town, India, 1 breedTumkur districtCattle town, India, 1 breedUdupiCattle town, India, 1 breedUttara KannadaCattle town, India, 1 breedVechoorPasture, India, 1 breedVindhyasCattle town, India, 1 breedWardha districtPasture, IndiaAjjampura and the Amrit Mahal kavalsThe breeding station of the Amrit Mahal, the royal draught cattle of Mysore, kept on reserved grasslands called kavals.Cattle town, IndiaAlanganallurA village near Madurai whose jallikattu, held during Pongal, is the best known of Tamil Nadu's bull-taming events.Pasture, IndiaAlmora and the Badri hillsThe Kumaon hills where the small Badri cow, the first registered breed of Uttarakhand, grazes forest slopes.Cattle town, IndiaAlwar districtCity, IndiaAnandThe town where village milk producers organised in 1946 and began the cooperative movement that changed Indian dairying.Sanctuary or reserve, IndiaBangaloreCattle town, IndiaBelgaumPasture, BhutanBumthangBhutan's central valleys, where Siri cattle, yaks and mithun crosses share high pastures around old temples.Pasture, IndiaChangthangThe high plateau of eastern Ladakh, where Changpa herders move yaks, sheep and pashmina goats between pastures above 4,000 metres.Pasture, IndiaChümoukedima DistrictCattle town, IndiaHisarA Haryana city whose government livestock farm, dating from 1809, helped shape the Hariana breed of the northern plains.Cattle town, IndiaJunagadh and the Gir forestThe homeland of the Gir cow in Saurashtra, where Maldhari herders keep cattle inside the last forest of the Asiatic lion.Cattle town, IndiaKandharCattle town, IndiaKangayamA Kongu town that gives its name to the Kangayam bull, bred on fenced grass pastures and traded at a famous spring fair.Fair or market, IndiaNagaur cattle fairHome of the Nagori bullock and of a large winter cattle fair held on the open ground outside town in the month of Magh.Pasture, NepalNamche Bazaar and the KhumbuThe Sherpa trading village below Everest, where yaks and dzo carry loads and a weekly market fills on Saturdays.Fair or market, IndiaPushkar FairA desert pilgrim town whose autumn fair, held in the days before Kartik Purnima, brings camels, horses and cattle to the dunes.Cattle town, PakistanSahiwalThe Punjab district that gave its name to the Sahiwal, perhaps the best milk zebu, close to the ruins of Harappa.Pasture, ChinaSalween River basinCattle town, IndiaSolapurFair or market, IndiaSonepur FairWhere the Gandak meets the Ganga opposite Patna, a fair that begins at Kartik Purnima and has traded animals for centuries.Cattle town, IndiaTamil NaduPasture, PakistanTharparkarThe Sindhi desert that gave its name to the Tharparkar cow, grazed by herders who move with the monsoon rains.Cattle town, IndiaTumakuru and the Hallikar countryThe dry country north-west of Bengaluru where the Hallikar, mother of the Mysore draught breeds, is still bred and traded.Cattle town, IndiaVechoorA village by Vembanad Lake whose tiny cattle, nearly lost in the 1980s, were saved by a university conservation programme.Sanctuary or reserve, IndiaVrindavan and the Braj gaushalasThe country of Krishna the cowherd, where gaushalas care for thousands of cows and Govardhan Puja is kept after Diwali.Cattle town, IndiaZiro and the mithun hillsA high valley in Arunachal Pradesh where the mithun, a domestic form of the gaur, roams the forest and carries great social weight.
Southeast Asia
Pasture, Indonesia, 1 breedBaliThe island that gave its name to Bali cattle, domestic banteng that plough rice terraces and are kept pure by local rule.Sanctuary or reserve, Australia, 1 breedCobourg PeninsulaPasture, Indonesia, 1 breedJavaPasture, Indonesia, 1 breedMadura IslandPasture, Malaysia, 1 breedSabahSanctuary or reserve, CambodiaAngkor WatSanctuary or reserve, IndonesiaBaluranA national park at Java's eastern tip, where wild banteng graze open savanna under the slopes of an old volcano.Pasture, CambodiaCardamon MountainsCattle town, IndonesiaMadura and the karapan sapiAn island off Java known for its bull races, in which pairs of bulls pull a jockey on a wooden sled down a straight track.City, CambodiaPhnom Penh
East Asia
Pasture, Japan, 1 breedAkita PrefectureCattle town, South Korea, 1 breedHoengseong CountyCattle town, Japan, 1 breedHokkaidoCity, Japan, 1 breedKagoshimaCity, Japan, 1 breedKōchi PrefectureCity, Japan, 1 breedKumamoto PrefectureCity, Japan, 1 breedKyotoPasture, Japan, 1 breednorthern HonshuCity, Japan, 1 breedOitaPasture, Japan, 1 breedTajimaPasture, Japan, 1 breedTsushima IslandPasture, Japan, 1 breedYamaguchi PrefecturePasture, MongoliaArkhangaiThe green Khangai uplands of central Mongolia, where herding families keep yaks, cattle and their hybrids alongside horses, sheep and goats.Cattle town, South KoreaHoengseongA mountain county in Gangwon known across Korea for Hanwoo beef and an autumn festival in its honour.Cattle town, JapanKagoshima PrefectureCity, JapanKobe and TajimaThe port city that gave its name to Kobe beef, raised from Tajima cattle bred in the hills of northern Hyōgo.City, JapanMatsusakaA castle town in Mie whose beef comes from heifers raised slowly by local farmers and judged at an annual autumn show.Sanctuary or reserve, JapanMishimaA small island in the Sea of Japan whose native black cattle, never crossed with foreign breeds, are a national natural monument.Cattle town, JapanMiyazaki PrefectureCity, JapanŌmihachiman and ŌmiA canal town on Lake Biwa in the old province of Ōmi, whose beef was sent to the shoguns at a time when beef was rarely eaten.Cattle town, JapanShiga PrefecturePasture, Russiasouthern Baikal regionCity, RussiaYakutsk
Central Asia and the Caucasus
Cattle town, India, 1 breedDirangPasture, Pakistan, 1 breedGilgit-BaltistanPasture, Russia, 1 breedLower VolgaCattle town, India, 1 breedManaliPasture, Nepal, 1 breedMustangRanch country, India, 1 breedNyukmadungPasture, KazakhstanAlmaty and the Alatau pasturesThe mountain pastures above Almaty, home of the Alatau cattle bred in the twentieth century from Swiss and Kazakh stock.Cattle town, RussiaEveno-Bytantaysky DistrictCattle town, RussiaSakha Republic
North Africa
Cattle town, EgyptMemphis and the Serapeum at SaqqaraThe ancient capital where the Apis bull was kept as a living god, and the desert catacombs where the bulls were buried.Pasture, SudanThe Butana and Kenana plainsThe dry plains of central Sudan that gave their names to two of Africa's best dairy zebu breeds.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ranch country, Australia, 1 breedBelmontPasture, Senegal, 1 breedCasamancePasture, Ethiopia, 1 breedGambella Regional StatePasture, Guinea, 1 breedGuinea highlandsRanch country, United States, 1 breedGulf CoastPasture, South Africa, 1 breedhighveldFair or market, MadagascarAmbalavao zebu marketA highland town in southern Madagascar whose weekly zebu market is the largest on the island.Pasture, EthiopiaBorana and the singing wellsThe southern Ethiopian rangeland that gave the world the Boran cow, watered in the dry season at deep wells where herders sing.Pasture, South SudanBor and the Dinka cattle campsOn the White Nile in South Sudan, where Dinka herders move to riverside cattle camps in the dry season.Pasture, MaliDiafarabé and the cattle crossingA village on the Niger in Mali where Fulani herders swim their cattle across the river each year in a festival of return.Pasture, GuineaFouta DjallonThe highlands of Guinea, homeland of the N'Dama, a small humpless cow that resists sleeping sickness.Pasture, ChadLake Chad and the KuriThe islands and shores of Lake Chad, home of the Kuri, cattle with huge swollen horns that swim between grazing grounds.Ranch country, South AfricaMara and the Afrikaner countryA government research station in Limpopo where the Bonsmara breed was built on the Afrikaner, the trek ox of South Africa.Cattle town, UgandaMbarara and AnkoleThe heart of the old kingdom of Ankole, home of the long-horned Ankole cattle and the Bahima herders who bred them.Sanctuary or reserve, RwandaNyanza and the royal InyamboThe old royal capital of Rwanda, where a palace museum keeps a herd of long-horned Inyambo cattle that are sung to by their keepers.Pasture, Ethiopiasouthern EthiopiaPasture, South SudanTerekeka and the Mundari campsCattle camps on the Nile north of Juba, where Mundari herders keep tall, long-horned cattle in clouds of smoke.Pasture, KenyaThe Maasai MaraRangeland in south-west Kenya where Maasai herders graze cattle beside one of Africa's great wildlife reserves.Pasture, South AfricaZululand and the NguniThe hills of northern KwaZulu-Natal, home of the Nguni cow, whose patterned hides have hundreds of names in isiZulu.
Europe
Cattle town, United Kingdom, 2 breedsGallowaySanctuary or reserve, Hungary, 2 breedsHortobágy National ParkCattle town, Austria, 2 breedsTyrolPasture, United Kingdom, 2 breedsYorkshireCattle town, France, 1 breedAbondanceCattle town, United States, 1 breedAlbanyCity, Italy, 1 breedAostaCattle town, Italy, 1 breedAosta ValleyCattle town, France, 1 breedAquitaineCattle town, Italy, 1 breedArezzoPasture, France, 1 breedAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesCattle town, United Kingdom, 1 breedAyrshireCattle town, Hungary, 1 breedBács-KiskunSanctuary or reserve, Spain, 1 breedBaixa Limia-Serra do XurésPasture, Spain, 1 breedBalearic IslandsPasture, France, 1 breedBasse-NormandiePasture, Germany, 1 breedBavariaPasture, France, 1 breedBeaufortainPasture, Ukraine, 1 breedBeremytske Nature ParkCattle town, Switzerland, 1 breedBernese OberlandPasture, France, 1 breedBrittanyPasture, France, 1 breedBruche valleyCattle town, Italy, 1 breedBruneckCattle town, Switzerland, 1 breedBünzenSanctuary or reserve, Spain, 1 breedCampanarios de AzabaCattle town, France, 1 breedCantalCattle town, France, 1 breedCharollesPasture, Ireland, 1 breedCounty DonegalPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedCounty DownCattle town, Ireland, 1 breedCounty KerryPasture, Ireland, 1 breedCounty LeitrimPasture, Ireland, 1 breedCounty SligoCattle town, United Kingdom, 1 breedCunninghamPasture, Sweden, 1 breedDalarnaCattle town, United Kingdom, 1 breedDishleyCattle town, France, 1 breedDoubsCattle town, United Kingdom, 1 breedDunlopCattle town, United Kingdom, 1 breedDurhamCattle town, Germany, 1 breedEast FrisiaPasture, Russia, 1 breedEast PrussiaSanctuary or reserve, Portugal, 1 breedFaia BravaPasture, Germany, 1 breedFalkenthaler RieselfelderSanctuary or reserve, Ireland, 1 breedFarmleighPasture, Spain, 1 breedGaliciaSpain's green north-west, land of the blond Rubia Gallega and the small Cachena with its great horns.Cattle town, Germany, 1 breedGarmisch-PartenkirchenCity, Italy, 1 breedGrossetoSanctuary or reserve, Germany, 1 breedGrubenfelder LeonieCattle town, Italy, 1 breedGuarene d'AlbaCattle town, Hungary, 1 breedHajdú-BiharRanch country, Norway, 1 breedHallingdalCattle town, France, 1 breedHaute-SavoieCattle town, United Kingdom, 1 breedHerefordshireCattle town, Australia, 1 breedHighfieldsPasture, Italy, 1 breedIsarco valleySanctuary or reserve, Poland, 1 breedJaktorówA village west of Warsaw where the last known aurochs, a cow, died in the royal forest in 1627.Sanctuary or reserve, Netherlands, 1 breedKeent Nature ReserveCattle town, Norway, 1 breedKviteseidPasture, Sweden, 1 breedKynnefjällPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedLancashirePasture, Croatia, 1 breedLika plainsSanctuary or reserve, Germany, 1 breedLippeauePasture, Italy, 1 breedLombardyPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedLuingPasture, France, 1 breedMainePasture, Italy, 1 breedMarchePasture, Italy, 1 breedMaremmaPasture, France, 1 breedMauriennePasture, Spain, 1 breedMenorcaSanctuary or reserve, Czech Republic, 1 breedMilovice Nature ReserveCattle town, France, 1 breedMontbéliardPasture, Italy, 1 breedMonte AmiataCattle town, France, 1 breedMunsterCattle town, Germany, 1 breedMurnauSanctuary or reserve, Germany, 1 breedNesseauePasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedNorfolkCattle town, France, 1 breedNormandyCattle town, Spain, 1 breedOlelasSanctuary or reserve, Netherlands, 1 breedOostvaardersplassenA nature reserve on reclaimed land where Heck cattle, Konik horses and red deer graze without human feeding, a much-debated experiment.Sanctuary or reserve, Latvia, 1 breedPape Nature ReserveCity, France, 1 breedParisPasture, France, 1 breedPays de la LoireSanctuary or reserve, Portugal, 1 breedPeneda-Gerês National ParkPasture, Hungary, 1 breedPentezugCattle town, Italy, 1 breedPiedmontPasture, Austria, 1 breedPinzgauThe mountain valleys of Salzburg that gave their name to the chestnut Pinzgauer, with its white stripe along the back.Pasture, France, 1 breedPoitou-CharentesCattle town, Portugal, 1 breedPraia da VitóriaPasture, Italy, 1 breedPuster ValleyPasture, Portugal, 1 breedRamo GrandeCity, Italy, 1 breedRomePasture, Poland, 1 breedRomincka ForestCity, Austria, 1 breedSalzburgPasture, France, 1 breedSaône-et-LoirePasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedScarbaCattle town, Switzerland, 1 breedSchwyzFair or market, Norway, 1 breedSeljordCattle town, Romania, 1 breedSfântu GheorgheCattle town, Italy, 1 breedSienaPasture, Switzerland, 1 breedSimmentalCattle town, Sweden, 1 breedSkepplandaCattle town, Germany, 1 breedSoestPasture, Italy, 1 breedSouth TyrolPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedSuffolkPasture, France, 1 breedTarentaisePasture, Norway, 1 breedTelemarkPasture, Italy, 1 breedTiber ValleyPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedTorsaCity, Italy, 1 breedTurinCattle town, Austria, 1 breedTuxPasture, Austria, 1 breedTuxertalCattle town, Switzerland, 1 breedValaisPasture, Switzerland, 1 breedVal d'HérensPasture, Italy, 1 breedValdichianaRanch country, Norway, 1 breedValdresPasture, Ireland, 1 breedValentia IslandPasture, Italy, 1 breedVallon de Saint-BarthélemyPasture, Italy, 1 breedVallon d'OllomontPasture, Italy, 1 breedValpellineCattle town, Sweden, 1 breedVänersborg MunicipalityCattle town, Sweden, 1 breedVäne-RyrPasture, Italy, 1 breedVenetoCattle town, Hungary, 1 breedVeszprémCattle town, Italy, 1 breedVetuloniaCattle town, Portugal, 1 breedVila Real DistrictCity, Italy, 1 breedViterboPasture, Austria, 1 breedVorarlbergPasture, France, 1 breedVosges MountainsPasture, Germany, 1 breedWerdenfels CountryPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedWestmorlandPasture, Austria, 1 breedZillertalPasture, United KingdomAberdeenCattle town, United KingdomAberdeenshirePasture, NetherlandsAchterhoekPasture, SpainÁlavaCattle town, United KingdomAlford and the Aberdeen AngusAn Aberdeenshire village with a bronze statue of an Aberdeen Angus bull, close to the farm where the breed was shaped.Pasture, SpainA LimiaPasture, SpainAlta RibagorçaPasture, SpainAlt UrgellCattle town, PortugalAmaranteCattle town, GermanyAngelnCattle town, United KingdomAngusPasture, ItalyAosta and the bataille de reinesAn Alpine valley where cows meet in head-pushing contests through the summer, and the queen of queens is crowned in October.Pasture, SwitzerlandAppenzellAn eastern Swiss canton where herders in red waistcoats lead brown cows with great bells up to the summer pastures.Pasture, SwitzerlandAproz and the combats de reinesA village near Sion in the Valais that hosts the national final of the cow fights of the black Hérens breed each spring.Cattle town, PortugalAroucaSanctuary or reserve, UkraineAskania-NovaA steppe reserve in southern Ukraine, founded in 1898, that has long kept the grey cattle of the Ukrainian steppe.Cattle town, SpainAsturiasPasture, SpainAsturias and the Picos de EuropaGreen mountain country in northern Spain, where native valley and mountain cattle graze high summer pastures called brañas.Ranch country, United KingdomBalmoral CastleCattle town, United KingdomBanffPasture, PortugalBarrosoA highland of northern Portugal where village bulls with huge horns meet in the chega de bois, and old communal farming survives.Pasture, SpainBay of BiscayPasture, SpainBizkaiaCity, ItalyBolognaSanctuary or reserve, SwedenBorlängeCity, PortugalBragançaCattle town, United KingdomBrightonPasture, United KingdomBuchanPasture, FranceCamargueFair or market, ItalyCarrù and the fat ox fairA Piedmontese town whose December fair of fattened oxen, held since 1910, ends with bollito misto at breakfast.Cattle town, PortugalCastelo de PaivaCattle town, United KingdomCastle Douglas and GallowayA market town in south-west Scotland, at the heart of the country of the shaggy black Galloway and the Belted Galloway.Cattle town, PortugalCastro DairePasture, SpainCerdanyaCattle town, FranceCharolles and the BrionnaisThe Burgundy town that gave its name to the white Charolais, with a weekly cattle market at Saint-Christophe-en-Brionnais.Sanctuary or reserve, United KingdomChillingham ParkA walled park in Northumberland where a herd of white cattle has lived wild, unhandled and unmixed, for centuries.Cattle town, FranceCholetCattle town, PortugalCinfãesCity, SpainCórdobaCattle town, FranceCorrèzePasture, FranceCouseransPasture, United KingdomCravenFair or market, United KingdomCrieffCattle town, United KingdomCumberlandPasture, SwedenDalarna and the summer farmsSwedish forest country where cows are still taken to summer farms in the woods and called home with high, ringing herding songs.Cattle town, United KingdomDarlington and the ShorthornThe Tees valley country where the Colling brothers bred the Shorthorn, and where the first cattle herd book was compiled.City, United StatesDenverSanctuary or reserve, United KingdomDinefwr ParkA Welsh parkland where white cattle with black ears and muzzles have been tied to the estate for many centuries.Cattle town, United KingdomDishley and Robert BakewellThe Leicestershire farm where Robert Bakewell pioneered selective breeding in the eighteenth century, starting with Longhorn cattle.Cattle town, PolandEast PrussiaPasture, United KingdomEnglish MidlandsPasture, SpainEnkarterriPasture, IcelandEyjafjörðurIceland's main dairy valley, home of a cattle breed kept isolated since the Norse settlers brought it more than a thousand years ago.Fair or market, United KingdomFalkirkCity, ItalyFerraraCattle town, FranceFoixRanch country, SpainGanadería MiuraPasture, ItalyGargano PeninsulaPasture, FranceGâtine VendéennePasture, SpainGipuzkoaPasture, United KingdomGlamorganFair or market, United KingdomGloucesterPasture, NetherlandsGroningenPasture, FranceHaut-PoitouPasture, United KingdomHebridesCity, United KingdomHerefordA cathedral city on the Wye that gave its name to the white-faced red Hereford, now raised across the world.Pasture, HungaryHortobágyThe great Hungarian puszta, where herds of grey long-horned cattle graze under the eye of mounted herdsmen.Pasture, CroatiaIstria and the BoškarinThe Croatian peninsula whose grey, lyre-horned Boškarin oxen were saved from near extinction in the 1990s.Cattle town, United KingdomJerseyThe Channel Island whose small fawn cows, kept pure by a ban on cattle imports since 1789, are now milked around the world.Pasture, RussiaKalmykiaThe steppe republic on the lower Volga, home of the Kalmyk people and of the red Kalmyk cattle they brought from Central Asia.Ranch country, RussiaKaravaevoSanctuary or reserve, IrelandKillarney and the Kerry cowA national park in south-west Ireland that keeps a herd of Kerry cattle, one of the oldest dairy breeds in Europe.Cattle town, United KingdomKincardineCattle town, GreeceKnossosThe Bronze Age palace in Crete whose frescoes show young people leaping over charging bulls.Pasture, RussiaKostroma OblastCattle town, FranceLaguioleCattle town, FranceLa MarcheCattle town, FranceLascaux and MontignacA cave in the Vézère valley whose Hall of the Bulls holds paintings of aurochs some 17,000 years old.Fair or market, FranceLa SouterraineCity, NetherlandsLeeuwarden and Us MemThe Frisian capital, with a statue of a cow called Us Mem, Our Mother, honouring the black and white cattle of Friesland.City, NetherlandsLeidenCity, FranceLimogesCattle town, FranceLimousinCattle town, United KingdomLlandoveryCattle town, United KingdomLlansawelCattle town, United KingdomLlanybydderCattle town, SpainLugoCattle town, SpainLumbierCity, SpainMadridSanctuary or reserve, United KingdomMargam Country ParkPasture, FranceMassif CentralCattle town, PortugalMiranda do DouroPasture, PortugalMontadoCattle town, United KingdomNeath Port TalbotPasture, NetherlandsNoord-BrabantFair or market, United KingdomOban and the Highland cattle salesA west Highland port that hosts the main sales of Highland cattle, and the island nearby that gave its name to the Luing.Pasture, SpainPallars SobiràSanctuary or reserve, FranceParc naturel régional de CamargueCattle town, FranceParthenayPasture, FrancePays d'AugeThe Normandy orchard country of Camembert, Livarot and Pont-l'Évêque, grazed by the spectacled Normande cow.Pasture, FrancePetite CamargueSanctuary or reserve, United KingdomPetworth ParkPasture, FrancePlateau de l'AubracPasture, SpainPyreneesCattle town, PortugalResendePasture, SpainRipollèsCattle town, NorwayRørosCattle town, FranceSaint-GironsPasture, FranceSaintongeRanch country, SpainSalamanca and the dehesaHolm oak pasture of western Spain, where beef herds and the bulls bred for the ring graze among scattered trees.Cattle town, FranceSalersA stone town in the volcanic Cantal that gives its name to mahogany-red cattle and to a cheese made only on summer pasture.Pasture, NetherlandsSallandSanctuary or reserve, SpainSastoiaPasture, SpainSayagoPasture, United KingdomScottish HighlandsCattle town, United KingdomSedlescombePasture, SpainSerra da CarbaPasture, PortugalSerra da PadrelaPasture, SpainSerra de LourenzáPasture, SpainSerra de XistralPasture, PortugalSerra do AlvãoPasture, PortugalSerra do MarãoCity, SpainSevillePasture, United KingdomSouth DownsCattle town, FranceTarbesCattle town, PortugalTerceiraAn island of the Azores, green with dairy pasture, where bulls on long ropes are run through the streets in summer.Pasture, PortugalTerra de MirandaPasture, GermanyThe Allgäu and the ViehscheidThe green foothills of the Alps in southern Germany, where brown cows are brought down from the mountains in September.Pasture, FranceThe AubracA high granite plateau in the Massif Central where decorated cows walk up to summer pasture at a festival in late May.Pasture, FranceThe BeaufortainA Savoie valley of high summer pastures, where red Tarine and Abondance cows give milk for Beaufort cheese.Pasture, FranceThe CamargueThe Rhône delta, where gardians on white horses herd small black bulls for the course camarguaise, in which the bull is not killed.Pasture, SwitzerlandThe EmmentalThe green hill country of Bern that gave its name to the cheese with holes, made from the milk of red and white cows.Pasture, FranceThe LimousinThe granite uplands of west-central France that gave the world the golden-red Limousin beef breed.Ranch country, ItalyThe Maremma and the butteriCoastal Tuscany, where mounted herdsmen called butteri still work grey Maremmana cattle with great lyre-shaped horns.Pasture, SwitzerlandThe SimmentalA valley of the Bernese Oberland whose red and white cattle became one of the most numerous breeds on earth.Pasture, AustriaThe Zillertal and TuxA Tyrolean valley that gave its name to the Tux-Zillertal cattle, with Tyrol Grey herds on neighbouring alpine pastures.Cattle town, NorwayTromsøCattle town, SpainTudancaPasture, NetherlandsTwentePasture, United KingdomTywi ValleyPasture, RussiaUpper VolgaPasture, SpainUrraúl AltoCity, NetherlandsUtrechtPasture, SpainVal d'AranPasture, ItalyVal di ChianaA broad Tuscan valley that gave its name to the Chianina, the tallest cattle breed in the world.Cattle town, PortugalVale de CambraPasture, FranceVallée d'AspePasture, FranceVallée d'AurePasture, SwedenVassjönPasture, FranceVendéeCity, PortugalVila RealPasture, United KingdomWestern IslandsRanch country, United KingdomWindsorCity, SpainZamora
North America
Sanctuary or reserve, United States, 1 breedGrand Canyon National ParkPasture, Australia, 1 breedQueenslandCattle town, United States, 1 breedTexasSanctuary or reserve, United States, 1 breedWichita Mountains Wildlife RefugeA federal refuge in south-west Oklahoma that has kept a herd of Texas Longhorns since 1927, when the breed was nearly lost.City, Canada, 1 breedWinnipegCattle town, United StatesAbilene, KansasThe first great railhead of the Texas cattle drives, where herds from the south met the railway to the east from 1867.City, CanadaCalgaryA prairie city at the foot of the Rockies, built on ranching, whose July Stampede and winter bull sale mark the cattle year.Cattle town, United StatesDodge CityRanch country, United StatesFort Worth StockyardsCowtown's old stockyards district, where a herd of Texas Longhorns is driven down Exchange Avenue twice a day.Ranch country, United StatesKing RanchA south Texas ranch founded in 1853, larger than the state of Rhode Island, where the Santa Gertrudis breed was developed.Cattle town, United StatesMountain HomeSanctuary or reserve, United StatesPaynes PrairieA Florida state preserve that keeps a herd of Florida Cracker cattle, descendants of the cattle brought by Spanish settlers.City, United StatesSan AntonioPasture, United StatesThe Chisholm TrailThe great cattle trail from Texas to the Kansas railheads, driven by millions of Longhorns between the late 1860s and the 1880s.
Latin America and the Caribbean
City, Brazil, 2 breedsUberabaBrazil's zebu capital, where Indian cattle imported in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were bred into a national herd.Pasture, Brazil, 1 breedCerradoRanch country, Brazil, 1 breedFazenda CanchimRanch country, United States, 1 breedGranard EstatesPasture, Brazil, 1 breedMinas GeraisCattle town, India, 1 breedNelloreRanch country, Brazil, 1 breedSão CarlosPasture, Brazil, 1 breedSapucaiaCattle town, Brazil, 1 breedSertãozinhoRanch country, Brazil, 1 breedUrutaíPasture, ColombiaThe LlanosThe flooded and sun-dried plains of the Orinoco basin, cattle country since Jesuit missions brought herds in the seventeenth century.Pasture, ArgentinaThe Pampas and San Antonio de ArecoThe flat grasslands of Argentina, cattle country since colonial days, and the gaucho town that celebrates their traditions.Pasture, BrazilThe PantanalThe world's largest tropical wetland, where cattle have grazed seasonal floodplains alongside wildlife for more than two centuries.
Oceania
City, Australia, 1 breedRockhamptonAustralia's self-styled beef capital, on the Tropic of Capricorn, where zebu-based breeds transformed northern herds.Ranch country, AustraliaAnna Creek StationThe largest working cattle station in the world, in the dry country west of Lake Eyre in outback South Australia.Sanctuary or reserve, New ZealandEnderby IslandA sub-Antarctic island where cattle lived wild for nearly a century, until the last survivors were rescued and the breed was saved by cloning.Ranch country, AustraliaKatherine and the Victoria River DistrictNorthern Territory cattle country of huge stations, where the 1966 Wave Hill walk-off changed Australian history.Ranch country, AustraliaThe KimberleyA vast region of gorges, rivers and cattle stations in Western Australia's far north, opened by long overland droves in the 1880s.Pasture, New ZealandThe WaikatoNew Zealand's dairy heartland, where cows graze green pasture year-round and Fieldays fills the June calendar.