Olive Oil Museum
If you want to know how they used to make olive oil in the good old days, the good old days when a horse was an essential ingredient, then you could do worse than to visit one of the Valencia Community’s most curious museums, Sant Climent, located in the village of San Mateo in the province of Castellón.
See our article on San Mateo:
http://valencia-international.com/the-siege-of-san-mateo/
As you approach the small town house where the museum is located, out steps Pili to greet you, and to begin her ebullient explanation of how the best oil used to be made in the stone house belonging to the Forniers family, as far back as the 17th century.
If nooks and crannies were a house, this would be it, so be carefully with the genuine wooden beams if you aren’t looking for a lobotomy.
Up and down, in and out you will go, following Pili, as she explains the process, helped by an ample array of implements used in the process.
And of course, at the end of your journey through the past, you can taste the oil and see and buy some of the other products, such as cosmetics, which derive from olive oil.
The horse of course turned the wheel, always anti-clockwise, in the days before steam engines and the industrial revolution spoilt everything.
The museum is located at Calle Zaragoza 2.
www.productesantcliment.com
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