Traditional festivals around olive oil

It is almost the season of olive harvesting in the Baronnies. Collected from December to March, tench is this variety of olive that announces its maturity as soon as small wrinkles appear on its black skin. During the harvest, 3 traditional festivals celebrate the arrival of olives and new oil:

• Fête de l’olive piquée – Nyons – 15 December 2018
• Olive and oil in celebration – Buis les Baronnies – 29 and 20 January 2019
• Alicoque – Nyons – 02 and 03 February 2019

Would you like to know more about olives and olive oil?

• Assist in olive pressing
• Festive recipe
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