In the province of Alicante you can find many oil mills working with the traditional systems by “pressing” the olives to get its golden treasure, and other ones more modern mills (the vast majority) that will use “centrifuging” systems to extract oil from olives. Harvesting olive trees and production process of olive oil into mills…
Evidences, testimonies, witnesses and quotes about olive oil in the province of Alicante through some historical notes: “… carbonized olive bones from the Neolithic period were found in the Cova de les Cendres in Teulada”. “… during the Roman era oil lamps were used to light the way people walked near the Roman Sanctuary of…
The province of Alicante currently allows different museum spaces dedicated to the olive oil history where you will find curiosities and tools about its legacy and its culture, and to know about the different systems of production of olive oil.
Here you can find five different routes which will suit each persons needs, depending on where they are, what they want to visit and the time availability of each of the proposed places to be visited. RECOMMENDATIONS: Download the detailed information of the routes. Make a call to each place to confirm schedules and availability…
From ancient times, popular beliefs gave olive oil healing properties and provide lot of benefits to human health. At the time, great classical physicians such Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamon or Dioscorides drafted treaties about it. At present time, thanks to numerous advances and investigations about the oil aspects these old theories began confirmed and demonstrating…
The Route of the Oil of Alicante invites you to discover about the olive oil production process, from the olive tree growing to the harvest in the fields, from the oil extracting tasks at the mills to the packaging procedures at the shop. The olive tree models the landscape conditions by the type of crops,…