Millenial olive trees Arión

Tourism proposals, Cultural route

Visit explaining the history of the millenial olive trees and the harvest of olives.

Visit the Museum of Natural Arión where the Olivers millennium and the world's oldest olive trees, La Farga with 1701 years old.

In 2014, the area received the Arion Heritage Europa Nostra Prize in 2014.

During the visit is a compilation of all the features of the tree and the finished product, oil. The final product is backed by numerous studies which emphasize its beneficial properties for health.

Olive oil is one of the keys to understanding the essence of the Mediterranean culture that for more than two millennia has been cultivated by all the cultures that have alternated in our fertile lands.

In Ulldecona are the largest known concentration of olive trees around the World. The part of the Arion Ulldecona with 400 inventory items and two of them declared "Monumental Trees" by the Government of Catalonia, is one of the most authentic and traditional agriculture has exceeded millenarian time and merged with the environment and the traditional environment, so now, in the XXI century, we are almost impossible to conceive a landscape without those vivid memories of our past and our culture.

Within this heading are the Fund's Arión where, since 2011, the Museum of Natural olive trees of Arion, which allows us to contemplate and enjoy 35 copies of authentic living sculptures large strains and twisted shapes result of the passage of time and the scars that it leaves on the bark.

The price includes: Guided tour of the Museum of Natural Arión.

The price does not include: Commuting own visit. Only will facilitate mobility own means, in cases where visitors have traveled by public transport to the meeting point.

Languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, English and German

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