All the Strade dell'olio. The new frontier Made in Italy.

Italians are keen on good food and wine. A well cooked pasta al forno, a fresh mozzarella di bufala, a juice of true oranges or a bruschetta dressed with pure extra virgin olive oil can move us to moments of culinary delight. The gusto of looking for the typical, local and wholesome product is a national trait of Italian culture at home and abroad.

The typical out-of-town tour, looking for the village with the characteristic restaurant and the wonderful landscape, where also Ancient Romans ancestors indulge, is being transformed in an economical and touristic development potential of mainly agricultural and eno-gastronomical areas, often among the most beautiful in Italy and worldwide.

Tour operators, municipalities, chambers of commerce and industry, local companies operating at a national and international level seem to have realised that the BelPaese is not only beautiful, but offers also juicy specialties renowned especially among the connoisseurs of good eating.

Everything started with events linked to wine, a success, to move to delis such as PDOs and PGIs produced in some of the most amazing Italian regions, often immersed in natural parks, thermal areas among the most spectacular in the world, in the hinterland and in territories laid on the marvellous Mediterranean Sea.


In those wonderful landscapes some stylized olives road signs started to be seen,  'Strada dell'olio', or in Abruzzo 'Vie dell'olio' signposts. In some tourist info points appeared maps with restaurants and farm holidays, often built within castles, entire burgs or ancient farms, highly interesting archeological, historical, artistic, thermal, seaside and UNESCO areas. Some regions, traditionally accustomed to conjugating touristic actractivity with good food and especially with the defense of the identity of the places, apparently decided turn on the spotlights on traditional PDOs, to promote charming touristic routes and products, along olive tree groves and awesome towns, sometimes a bit snubbed by mass tourism.

Those are the PDOs and the linked Strade dell'olio in Italian regions, some of them entirely PDO areas:


Abruzzo:
Aprutino pescarese
Colline Teatine
Pretuziano delle Colline Teramane
http://www.visitabruzzo.eu/vie_olio.html

Calabria:
Alto Crotonese
Bruzio
Lametia

Campania:
Cilento
Colline Salernitane
Irpinia - Colline dell'Ufita
Penisola Sorrentina

Emilia Romagna:
Brisighella
Colline di Romagna

Friuli Venezia Giulia:
Tergeste

Lazio:
Canino
Colline Pontine
Sabina
Tuscia
http://www.stradadelloliodellasabina.com/

Liguria:
Riviera Ligure
http://www.rivieraligure.it/IT/guida-la-strada-dell-olio-in-liguria.g12.htm

Lombardia:
Laghi Lombardi
Garda

Marche:
Cartoceto

Molise:
Molise

Puglia:
Collina di Brindisi
Dauno
Terra di Bari
Terra d'Otranto
Terre Tarentine
http://www.tipicipuglia.it/test/str_olio/
http://www.dopdauno.it/

Sardegna:
Sardegna

Sicilia:
Monte Etna
Monti Iblei
Val di Mazara
Valdemone
Valle del Belice
Valli Trapanesi
http://www.lastradadellolio.it/

Toscana:
Chianti Calssico
Lucca
Terre di Siena
http://www.stradavinoeoliolucca.it/
http://www.stradevinoditoscana.it/elenco_delle_strade/ 

Umbria:
Umbria
http://www.stradaoliodopumbria.it/

Veneto:
Veneto Valpolicella, Veneto Euganei e Berici, Veneto del Grappa

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