Museums and Palaces

António Manuel Dias is an entrepreneur, self-taught, who started exploration in the olive sector in 1986, being the owner of Sociedade de Azeite Destilaria Dias Lda. In the course this activity, he collected over the years a collection of hundreds of pieces on knowledge and technologies associated with olive oil.

The Olive Oil Museum recreates historical contexts that highlight the machines and processes created over the centuries by man for the extraction of olive oil, a precious vegetable oil, even sacred, that in its multiple dimensions - food, lighting, medicine, hygiene - if became one of the most important agricultural products in the country, with a definitive role in the economy of each historical period.

The Olive Oil Museum intends, therefore, to combine the historical and patrimonial valorization with the tourist fruition, creating a space for safeguarding the cultural, industrial and intangible heritage, as well as for the dissemination of olive oil production technologies. Its mission is the preservation of knowledge and secular pieces specific to our identity.

In addition to the exhibition space, the Olive Oil Museum also houses the Bar and Restaurant “Olea”, an auditorium, souvenir shop and spaces designed for the youngest with playful and educational activities.