Ottenuto direttamente dalle Olive

Salento peninsula runs out into the Mediterranean Sea and it offers facilities plunged in an unspoilt nature, pine forests along the coast, parks that form nature riserves and several archaeological sites dating back to ancient periods, where real finds of those civilizations which used to inhabit this area are preserved.

Geographically it’s a part of the land known since Middle Ages as Terra d’Otranto, an ancient administrative division of  the Kingdom of Naples, later converted into a province of  the Kingdom of the two Sicilies.  
It encompassed since the XI century the territories of the current provinces of Lecce, Taranto and Brindisi. Terra d’Otranto was bordered by  “Terra di Bari” to the north, by Basilicata to the west, by Ionian Sea to the south and Adriatic Sea to the east. It encompassed not only the whole Salento Peninsula, but even a big part of the Murgia, land of “trulli”, known as “Valle d’Itria”, and a part of the High Murgia, running out into the Ionian Sea.

Among its most important treasures, there are fields full of olive trees, young or century-old  trees. They are the source of our precious nectar, our quality oil, used to season the tasty food of our tradition.