The traditional Vranas Oil Press cum Museum on the island of Lesvos which underwent extensive restoration of both its buildings and the oil press by the Archipelagos non-profit cultural society is launching its own extra virgin olive oil, under the Gaea label.
The revenue from selling this product will help towards covering the cost of running the museum. The historic oil press is one of the first steam-powered factories of the time when the industrial revolution reached Lesvos, dating back to the 19th century.
Built in 1887 in Papados village, in the Gulf of Yera, the press belonged to Nikolaos Vranas -grandfather of the island's Nobel poetry laureate Odysseas Elytis- and was in operation up to the early 1970s, while the olive oil it produced was traded throughout Greece and in Istanbul on the Turkish coast across the sea, on the Bosphorus Strait.
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