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The Museum of the Olive & Greek Olive Oil “The Blessed Fruit of the Olive Tree”

22.05.2018 in Museums

The Museum of the Olive & Greek Olive Oil “The Blessed Fruit of the Olive Tree”     Beneath the might mountain of Taygetus, on the outskirts of Sparta, home of the legendary Leonidas, lies the The Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil. A project of the Pireaus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, the Museum highlights the “ineffable relation of the olive with the identity of Greece” from antiquity to modernity.   The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation has created in Greece nine of the finest modern museums in the country, from Mastica in Chios, to Silk in Soufli,…