Nestled in the heart of Crete, Greece, stands the Olive Tree of Vouves, one of the oldest living olive trees in the world. Estimated to be between 2,000 and 4,000 years old, this extraordinary ...

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Crete has been a food destination a long time in the making. Greece’s biggest island is dotted with centuries-old olive trees (including the oldest olive tree in the world still producing fruit ...

Nearly half of all Greek olive oil is produced on Crete, making the nation’s largest ... and explore ancient olive groves—including their 1,500-year-old tree called “Mitera” (Greek for ...

But one, a behemoth measuring roughly 14 feet in diameter, is more than 1,100 years old. That’s the oldest olive tree in the world, the team reported last month in the journal Dendrochronologia.