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 olise's olive oil has been renowned since antiquity. Many authors have sung its praises in centuries past. Cato, in "De Re Rustica," mentions the laws that regulated the sale of olives in Venafro. Pliny the Elder, in "De Oleo," talks about Venafro's "Licinian" olives—named after Licinius, who first brought them to Molise—and the excellent oil that they produced. Licinian olives are still grown in the territory of Venafro, but are now known today by the name of Aurina. Horatio in his "Satires," recommends the use of Venafro olive oil in the preparation of two kinds of condiments.
Giovanni Presta writes in his book "Notes on Sixty-Two Different Kinds of Oil Presented to His Majesty Ferdinand IV" that the ancients considered the oil of Venafro to be the best: "It was reserved for the most delicate, fussiest and wealthiest of palates."
In the territory of Larino, whenever archaeologists discovered an ancient roman villa, they have also found huge oil containers in its cellars. Cicero, in "Pro Cluentio," praises the people of Larino for their industriousness, and their land, for its fertility. The result of this millennia-old labor has been a large number of excellent olive varieties: Aurina, Gentile di Larino, Rosciola, and the black olive of Collotorto. Each one grown in its own restricted area and with its own distinctive characteristics.
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AMPO - Associazione Molisana Produttori Olivicoli
Via Zurlo, 20
86100 Campobasso (CB)
ITALY
phone: (+39) 0874/493142
APROL - Associazione Produttori Olivicoli (IS)
Localita' Nunziatella
86019 Isernia (IS)
ITALY
phone: (+39) 0865/265250
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