As a unit which can be visited all year round, even in the operating period of the olive oil factory (November, December, January, February), it is visited by educational interest groups with active participation in environmental projects, public or private schools and institutions.

As a unit which can be visited all year round, even in the operating period of the olive oil factory (November, December, January, February), it is visited by scientific interest groups with active participation in research and technology, educational institutions and technical colleges.

As a unit which can be visited all year round in the operating period of the olive oil factory, it participates in projects, workshops and presentations of topics and tasks relating to the environment, the grove as an ecosystem, modern crops and olive oil as a local and national product.

As a unit which can be visited all year round, even in the operating period of the olive oil factory (November, December, January, February), it is visited by productive interest groups, such as visits of agricultural schools and producer groups from Greece and abroad.

As a unit which can be visited all year round, even in the operating period of the olive oil factory (November, December, January, February), it is visited by tourist interest groups with active participation in alternative tourism projects and technical visits to production units as wineries, olive oil factories, etc.

The olive grove appears in different visual themes.

The religious themes are particularly important and relevant to the Passion of Jesus Christ and the Mount of Olives.

The painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance often presents this hour of solemn supplication and prayer of Jesus before the arrest and crucifixion. Of particular importance is the work of El Greco. This is an oil painting on canvas dating between 1590 and 1595 which depicts Jesus in this solemn hour of prayer with His face turned into an angel holding a chalice. The grove trees are scattered and isolated, as if retreating in front of the intensity of the passion and power of supplication addressed by Christ to heaven, in a deep blue background with blue-grey clouds which foretell what is to follow.

Van Gogh paints fifteen of his most important late works having as main theme the olive groves of Provence.

Matisse, one of the most important modernist painters, gives us a drawing which depicts Pasiphae hugging an olive tree. This is a work which for the first time attributes to the olive tree and the olive grove the deep, yet melancholy erotic element of landscape. Many Greek artists have dedicated a large part of their works in the olive grove and it is difficult to mention them all.

Many of them spent much of their work in the artistic representation of the grove. Theophilus manages, by simple means, to create a sense of immediacy and everyday life, showing the great value the olive has for life and economy.

The recognition of Theophilus in Greece and abroad after his “discovery” from the major collector and art historian Stratis Eleftheriades (Teriade) brought the Greek olive grove and rural life in the forefront of contemporary art. The continuing inspiration of this sacred tree continues to excite young and old artists, sculptors, printmakers and painters.

Some of these small, perhaps unknown, artists we are lucky enough to host at times in our showroom.

Besides, the very humble and modest presence of this holy tree teaches man humility and brings out the small and humbles the proud.