Olive mill tour and michelin-starred tasting menu
A walk through the history of olive oil production alongside the first family to produce olive oil from Millenary Olive Trees in Catalonia. Tradition, quality and love for the land is what this guided tour of the Molí de la Creu transmits. And there’s nothing better than to complete this visit with a tasting menu at the Michelin-starred Antic Molí restaurant in Ulldecona.
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Petites Arrels Menu
The Antic Molí restaurant offers creative and signature dishes without neglecting the mastery of traditional cuisine, a style that always manages to make most of the local produce. Olive oil is one of its star ingredients, so it also forms part of the different games proposed in the tasting menus.
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Premium visit to the millenary olive trees of Arión
During the guided tour of the Millenary Olive Trees of Arión you will walk among authentic living sculptures. In this place with the highest concentration of millenary olive trees of the world you will be able to contemplate specimens that have resisted the passage of time, especially the Farga I, an olive tree that is more than 1,700 years old and dated as the oldest olive tree in the world still in production.
Astronomy amog Millenary Olive Trees
The light of the sunset in the Maestrazgo area of Castellón adds a special magic to this route through numerous examples of ancient olive trees of the Farga variety which, according to the latest dating, are more than two thousand years old. Impressive!
Visit to the Molí d'Olí (olive oil mill) interpretation centre
This is an old olive oil mill located next to the Rambla de Cervera. Built between the 14th and 15th centuries, it functioned as a manor system oil monopoly until the 1920s. Declared BIC (i.e. Bien de Interés Cultural = Asset of Cultural Interest), it has been converted into a visitor's center, and apart from a complete museum exhibition, it houses the town's tourist information office.
Cycling amid millenary olive trees
While riding our bikes, we will discover the natural and historical wealth of a municipality with one of the largest concentrations of Millenary Olive Trees in the province: Canet lo Roig. At one of the various stops, we will visit the famous olive tree of the film El Olivo (The Olive Tree), explaining the despoilment that this valuable heritage has suffered for decades. We will stop for a snack at the Ermita de Santa Isabel and taste the olive oil produced in Canet.
A Stroll through millenary olive trees and olive oils
A journey through the history of olive trees and olive oil. The activity begins with a visit to Arión’s Natural Museum of Millenary Olive Trees, where you will be able to admire the oldest and most numerous group of millenary olive trees in the Iberian Peninsula and, probably, in the world. To finish, you will take a tour of the Molí de la Creu, a family mill from 1884, where you will see how the technique of obtaining olive oil has evolved.
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Brunch amid millenary olive trees + visit of Sant Climent's oil press
Farmer's lunch among Millenary Olive Trees, where you can taste wine and olive oil from the Sant Climent winery while pairing them with local products. Tomatoes with onion harvested the very same morning, rustic bread baked in a wood-fired oven, sausages and Catalan botifarra with tomato, potato omelette, seasonal fruit and wine chosen for the occasion. The activity ends with a visit to Sant Climent oil mill.
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MILLENARY OLIVE TREES FROM THE HEIGHTS
The Sant Pere or Solà mountain range extends to the east of Canet lo Roig and, from there, we can see a large part of the historic Maestrazgo region of Castellón: natural parks, rivers, villages, towns, cities, the Mediterranean Sea and, of course, our incomparable Sea of Olive Trees.
Gastrocultural weekend: oleotourism among Castellón’s millenary olive trees
It is in the Maestrazgo region of Castellón where we find the highest density of olive trees which, according to the latest dating, are over two thousand years old. Simply impressive. One day is not enough to get to know all the natural and cultural heritage that surrounds them, so we suggest you to spend a long weekend full of visits, gastronomy and other surprises that can only be found in this small area called the Maestrat.
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