page_title: List of Italian cheeses
section_title: G
hierarchical_section_title: List of Italian cheeses / G
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Détail d'une étagère de gorgonzola à la fromagerie Mauri
context_page_description: This is a list of Italian cheeses. Italy is the country with the highest variety of cheeses in the world, with over 2500 traditional varieties, among which about 500 commercially recognized cheeses and more than 300 kinds of cheese with protected designation of origin. Fifty-two of them are protected at a European level. In terms of raw production volume, Italy is the third largest cheese producer in the European Union, behind France and Germany. Lombardy is the first Italian region for number of protected cheeses, with 77 varieties, among which Granone Lodigiano, ancestor of all Italian granular cheeses such as Grana Padano and Parmigiano-Reggiano, Mascarpone, and the well-known Gorgonzola blue cheese. Italian cheeses Mozzarella and Ricotta, too, are some of the most popular cheeses worldwide.
  See List of Italian DOP cheeses for a list of those Italian cheeses which have Protected Designation of Origin under EU law, together with their areas of origin.
context_section_description: Galbanino 
  Garda Tremosine
  Giacobin de Zena
  Giganti – Basilicata
  Giglio sardo – Sardinia
  Gineprino
  Gingherlino – Lombardy
  Giuncata
  Gioda
  Gioddu – Sardinia
  Giuncà – Piedmont
  Gorga Ciccarelli Viareggio – Tuscany
  Gorgonzola – DOP – Lombardy, Piedmont
  Gorgonzola a due paste
  Gorgonzola con la coda
  Gorgonzola bresciano
  Gorgonzola tipo piccante
  Gran cacio di Morolo
  Grana – class of hard, mature cheeses
  Grana calabrese – Calabria
  Grana Padano – DOP – Lombardy, Piedmont, Trentino, Veneto, Emilia‑Romagna
  Grana Trentino – Trentino
  Grande Vecchio di Montefollonico
  Granone Lodigiano – Lodi, Lombardy
  Grappino
  Grasso d'alpe – Piedmont
  Graukäse - South Tyrol
  Graukäse della Valle Aurina – South Tyrol
  Gresal – Veneto; the name used in Sedico for Pressato
  Groviera La Leonessa
  Guttus di pecora grossetano – Tuscany
caption: Gorgonzola aging
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