the oil was\nalways present in the corners of daily life for the Portuguese: in the lamp\npoor man and the rich man's candlestick, the peasant's frugal table and the solemn temples\nof old cults.
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\nMythical, biblical, romantic and historical, \u201colive oil always comes to the fore\u201d.\nIt faced the new truth of selective markets and ceased to be simply the\nOlive oil, to adopt the cradle of an origin and assume the identity of a brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIn Portugal, the olive tree culture is lost in the most remote times. Second\nthe chronicles say, the Visigoths must have already inherited it from the Romans and these,\npossibly they had found it in the Iberian Peninsula. In turn, the\nArabs maintained the culture and made it prosper, and the word Olive Oil\ncomes from the Arabic word az-zait, which means \u201colive juice\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIn fact, the first manifestations of the importance of olive cultivation in\nPortugal appear in the provinces where the Christian reconquest later took place.\nrealized. This is how the first charters referring to olive production\nconcern the Portuguese provinces of Estremadura and Alentejo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nUntil the end of the 12th century, in Portugal, the cultivation of the olive tree is not mentioned.\nnor the economic interest of its production. However, in the 13th century, olive oil was already\noccupies an important place in our foreign trade, a position that will\nlater, it can be said that this fat was a very\nabundant in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olive oil was always present in the corners of Portuguese daily life: in the lamp of the poor and in the candelabrum of the rich, on the frugal table of the peasant and in the solemn temples of ancient cults.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-sem-categoria"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nLater, it is the religious orders that, with their role in revitalizing\nagriculture, dedicate special attention to the manufacture of olive oil. The \"Holy Oil\"\nwill play a fundamental role in the economy of the Convent of Santa Cruz de\nCoimbra, the Monastery of Alcoba\u00e7a, the Order of Freires de Cristo, the Order of\nTemple and the Order of the Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
\nDrought resistant, easily adapted to stony terrain, the olive tree\nbecame a constant presence in Portuguese agriculture.\u201d Source: Oil\u00b4s house<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"