Vicopisano Trip Overview
Tour for every extra virgin olive oil lovers and people you wuld discover some special places you cannot find in your travel guide.
Additional Info
Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Vicopisano, Italy
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Dining Experiences
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What to Expect When Visiting Vicopisano, Toscana, Italy
Tour for every extra virgin olive oil lovers and people you wuld discover some special places you cannot find in your travel guide.
Enjoy a fantastic tour in the area of the Pisan Mountains, where Extra Virgin Olive Oil is produced since a long time. In fact, there are a lot of historical olive oil mill.
Our tour starts with the amazing medieval town Vicopisano, a little treasure full of history and towers. The most famous tower was realized by the famous Brunelleschi during the 15th century.
The tour continues with a guided tour in an organic olive oil mill, giving you an interesting introduction to the world of extra virgin olive oils, methods of cultivation of the trees, techniques for extraction from the olives. Then you can have a look of the mill and the machinery and the technology used for production. Beside the modern machineries, you can admire an ancient oil mill, used in the past to compare the modern technologies with the ancient ones. Then the tasting of this “green gold” (so called in Italy) on a slice of toasted bread!
Sample Menu
• Extra virgin olive oil tasting