The Spanish Olive: a Taste of History, Culture, and Tradition

Traveling by train on the Iberian peninsula, you’ll be blessed with a landscape of olive trees. They seem to be everywhere, no matter what part of Spain you’re traveling through: the north, the northeast, the south, etc. Their lollipop shape and sage leaves are distinctive from the other dry brushes and otherwise arid landscape. Dotted on hills, planted in rows, or spread out among rocky terrains, they’re impossible to miss.