Product Description

Olive oil is a product rooted in our food culture for thousands of years. It was the Phoenicians who introduced it to the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula in the eleventh century AC. During Roman times, the consumption of olive oil quickly spread, with the “Betica Province”, Andalucia today, the main producing area of the whole empire. Spain treasures the largest olive-tree plantation of the world. Over **0 million olive trees, which occupy more than 2.5 million hectares, spread over *4 provinces over the country, taking preponderance its presence in the southern and eastern half of the peninsula. This makes Spain the largest producer and exporter 3 of olive oil, representing more than half of EU production and *0% of the world’s production. This gives an enormous economic asset and a great social, environmental, cultural and public health value.