Our olives are hand-picked from fields in the hills surrounding San Giacomo degli Schiavoni and Guglionesi in the Campobasso province region of Molise, Italy. The region is near the eastern coastal city of Termoli, the biggest center in the vicinity.
San Giacomo degli Schiavoni lies in a hilly landscape a few miles from the Adriatic coast, and is a quiet, farming village. The town was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake of 1456, which killed thousands of people in southern Italy. In the following decades the few survivors were joined by Croatian immigrants, brought to work on the farms and concentrated around the church, where the present town was later built. These immigrants were called “Schiavoni” and gave the town its modified name since 1564.
Altitude: 169m above sea level — Territory: hilly, coastline — Population: ca. 1300 inhabitants
The town of Guglionesi lies amid fields, olive trees and vineyards, on a hill hovering on the Biferno river. A famous Benedictin abbot, Adam, was a promoter of the unification of the Southern populations under Ruggero II. Lords of the place were the D’Avalos family. In 1496 Guglionesi was sacked by the French armies of Charles VIII.
Altitude: 369m above sea level – Territory: hills, near the coastline — Population: ca. 5200 inhabitants