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Traditional production of olives and olive oil

Olive: an eternal symbol

The olive tree, symbol of peace and sustainability, is from the ancient times, for the Greeks and other Mediterranean people, basic source of life, inspiration and wealth.

Athena donates olive tree in Athens

Olive leaf fossil 50-60000 years

In ancient Athens, the price of winner in the sport of road was 700 amphoras containing 2.5 tons of oil. In chariot prize was 5 tons of olive oil of exceptional quality

The olive Plato. In its shadow philosophers taught ...

Minoan wall painting from palace

The olive in period of interwar

Byzantine miniature

The olive in modern Greece: coins

OLIVE AND RELIGION

Christening

The oldest olive tree in the village Vouves in Chania, Crete, has a diameter 12.5 m. Its age is estimated between 2500-5000 years.

In Greece, as in all olive countries in South Europe, the workers collect the olives with many ways, some of them come from the ancient times.

with sails

Collecting olives by hand

With nets on the ground

... or on air.

by beating

by combing

On stairs by hands:

The traditional way of picking in Stylis

Production of olive oil through time

Oil press in Minoan times

oil press in 19th century

Fthiotida produces more edible olives in Greece (70,000 tones is 43.5% of production in Greece).
In the olive grove of Stylis extending around Maliakos gulf, 120,000 acres are cultivated with olives and produces 80% of the production of edible olives in Fthiotida.

Edible olive

Olive pulp

Olive oil with herbs

cosmetics

soaps

core

fuel

old oil packaged packing

Since old times, the olive tree has played an important role in the life and economy of Stylis

Even nowadays is the main source of income for local residents

Standard products of Agricultural Cooperative of Stylis

The olive tree as a source of inspiration

The olive trees, its branches, fruits and leaves, ornamented unique artworks depicting the walls of ancient palaces and became subject of paintings.

Sacred Grove-Knossos

N. Hadjikyriakos Ghikas The captive-Olive trees

Theophilus- olive collection

Van Gogh-Olive grove G. Spyropoulos-Olive trees

Olympic Games, Greece-2004