Zeytinlik Olive Festival - 4th - 9th October 2011.
There are many festivals held across the
island during the year that celebrate the abundance of agricultural products
for which Cyprus is famous.
Depending on the season and governed by
the area in which particular crops are grown, there are festivals extolling the
merits of the Orange and other citrus fruits, Grapes, Cheeses, Carob and the
most famous and widely produced Mediterranean fruit of all, the olive. This
green, hard-stoned little gem has been used throughout the countries of the
Mediterranean region for well in excess of 3,000 years in a variety of ways
both culinary and medicinally. It has also been utilised as a principal source
of lighting with the Romans being among the first people to produce
one-use-only oil lamps that were supplied with oil and wick and thrown away
after use.
