Bringing Light and Colour to Post-War Almería Through Art

The Indaliano movement was a cultural movement expressed through painting, sculpture and writing that emerged in Almería in the 1940s. It brought light and colour to post-war Almerían society through art, celebrating tradition, agriculture and fishing, and depicting scenes of local people and places. Various gatherings and tertulias were held, where artists and members of civil society—doctors, teachers, lawyers, archaeologists and other intellectually curious individuals—came together to discuss art, literature, culture and philosophy.

They adopted the Indalo as their symbol, a depiction of one of the prehistoric cave paintings found in the Cueva de los Letreros. Among these is the enigmatic figure known as “the sorcerer” or “the shaman”, and just below it is our friend “the Indaliana goat”—a figure almost erased by the passage of time, which we have chosen to rescue as the emblem of our cheesemaking business, in gratitude to this magnificent animal, a symbol of resilience and adaptability, for all its gifts.