Olive Road: from Aegean Sea to the Apennine Peninsula (Photos)

The ancientGreeceAccording to legend, the goddess of wisdom to sword touchdown, sow the seeds of olive trees, to the city of Athens brought light and hope.RomeAccording to legend, Hercules walking on the Mediterranean coast, hand-held olive stick a trail from roots, olive oil and into people's life in the mediterranean.

From the Aegean Sea to the Apennines, the olive in the road long and hard. But when we integrate the elegant rich olive garden, when the smell of olive refreshing taste, taste the food made by a thorough olive oil, when we truly understand the olive why can become the other half of the soul in life, we give thanks, thank God gave us the gift of all.

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Most live in Greece

Some people say that Greece is the decline of the aristocracy. The bones of a natural confidence and grace, even if the situation changes, even if the past debt crisis also let people have a lingering fear, but did not affect the pace of life, neither fast nor slow, carefree and content to live in the Aegean Sea blue waves of the comfort, the olive trees dense shade.

Besides the Acropolis

When Athena olive tree to win the race, and Poseidon Athens, the city is named after the symbol of wisdom and the goddess of war the name of the city until now forever shrouded in the light of God and man. Athens remain unchanged, few modern skyscrapers, busy and bustling seems to have nothing to do with it, even it is a primitive and simple and unsophisticated, but this does not affect its sacred status in the hearts of the people. Although it is only a transit station in this trip, but the banquet after just over a distance window -- the Acropolis, in darkness enveloped the top of the hill, around a soft golden light, as light as a night light.

Walk the road of olive

The last day hurried to the Acropolis to a beauty. The morning rain to Athens, become more dream, to the foot of the Acropolis was once a year just to catch up with the Athens International Marathon day, regardless of men and women, old and young, regardless of nationality race, they like 2500 years ago, like Fede J Peder J, with their own beliefs run down until the end...... This created the ancient Olympic Games country we see are her energy and inclusive.

Colin Sos canal

Colin Sos canal, although no Panama Canal and Suez canal that is famous in the world, but you cannot deny it in ancient Greece is the important channel connecting the Aegean Sea and to the Ionian Sea, in the canal before, all required by the Yisisi Moss a bank to another bank to ships, must all around and, long and dangerous voyage. So Colin Sos dug through the human understanding of the world and the future expectation.

Standing on the canal bridge, it is difficult to imagine in the absence of ancient sinking machinery large, how will the depth of 79 meters of rock drilling of more than 5000 meters in length, cutting Fupi like canal over how much blood and tears. Now the canal to Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea together, quietly shining blue waves, tides and waves any seemed to have nothing to do with it.

The preexistence of olive

The Spartan street did not imagine the old, much is quiet, not wide streets, each place on the balcony of the house are all full of flowers in full bloom, understands the life, the Greeks neither fast nor slow in the corner to chat, basking in the sun. Olive museum is like a their own houses hidden in a corner of the alley, pushed open a door, preexistence olive show in front of. Here is the Greek unearthed five thousand or six thousand years ago olive fossil, olive leaf venation elongated clearly etched in stone, it is about the history of.

The museum display apparatus in ancient times, all press storage, olive oil, inadvertently across the centuries, witnessed the production process of olive oil process. The yard has placed the ancient period, the bronze age, the Byzantine period press olive oil tool. From the stone crushing to the lever mechanical press, technological advances enable olive oil yield but also to maintain the original. You can personally turn stone, crushing olives, when mixed with water and oil golden liquid flows out, a fresh fruity jump into the nose, there is this experience let you understand the olive? Maybe do a piece of handmade soap will be more happy.

The Aegean Sea of Kalamata

Kalamata (Kalamata) is the most famous Greek olive growing areas, facing the Aegean Sea, Greece is also the famous resort destination. City named Kalamata black olive is representative of olive oil, food industry is widely recognized as the best preserved olives. The Kalamata olives meat more than thin easy out of oil, fully mature olive picking down to salt pickled after soaked in olive oil, the other part squeezed into the aroma of olive oil, because of pickled ripening color will become dark black, olive flavor than other varieties more full-bodied, few acerbity. It is the indispensable material of Greek salad.

Unable to hold oneself back to early in the morning to see the Aegean Sea. Open the balcony doors, the rapid burst into the room with your Say Morning, the air full of the flavor of Aegean Sea, evening see the Mid-Levels clear, on the coastal highway, various color houses scattered dependencies, you cannot help but envy the local people, in addition to Aegean Sea with romantic, is more complacent and simple happiness feeling.