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Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

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Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

Thiva (Sievey), also known as THEBES (Thebes), is an ancient city with a long history, comparable to Athens, is a city in the BOEOTIA region of central Greece, as the place where stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus, Hercules, the Seven Generals Attack on Thebes and other stories took place, is the origin of many great Greek myths, it occupies an important place in Greek mythology, archaeological excavations in and around Sieve and its surrounding areas revealed a Mycenaean settlement, and clay tablets written in linear B script, indicating the importance of the site in the Bronze Age.

Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming
Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

Between 371-362 BC, THIVA was the most powerful and influential city in all of Greece, becoming a new center of silk trade during the Byzantine period, with a vibrant ancient history, a large archaeological museum in existence, the ruins of "Kadmea", and the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, which attracted visitors from all over the world.

Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming
Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming
Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

Today THAVA is a bustling municipality, it is the largest city in the BOETOIA region, known for its wide range of products and goods, it has always had a thriving agriculture, dealing in wheat, olive oil, wine, tobacco and cotton, as well as silk manufacturing. The Greek AT Olive Farm is located here, just an hour's drive from central Athens on the E75 highway.

Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming
Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming
Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

The BOETOIA region, where THIVA is located, plays an important role as a distribution and logistics hub connecting the port of Piraeus, Athens, northern Greece and the Balkan Peninsula, with vast and fertile agricultural plains, through which the ASOPOS and KIFISSOS rivers flow, making THIVA an important region for the production, sale and export of a wide range of agricultural products.

Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

THIVA is home to millions of olive trees, spread across ancient traditional jungles, where the local olives have been grown with thousands of years of traditional experience, and the main olive variety in the region is MEGALITIKI, which produces extra virgin olive oil with incredible sensory properties.

Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

Most of the producers in the THIVA region are smallholder farmers, characterized by small plots of land dispersion, little capital investment in commercial infrastructure, low levels of organization and cooperative structures, and the regional advantage here is that traditional and organic farming methods combine superior soil conditions to produce high-quality and delicious extra virgin olive oil.

Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

Greek AT Olive Farm integrates THIVA's scattered agricultural land, chooses to plant higher quality KORONEIKI varieties of olive trees, carries out large-scale, intelligent farming and maintenance management, brings greater economies of scale, aims to become the largest green farm in Greece as the goal, adopts agro-ecological methods to protect the environment, produces organic agriculture, and plans to build and expand more advanced projects, such as amusement parks, sightseeing farms, health farms, And the related industrial chain including olive oil brand and refinery integration.

Discover the ancient city of Thiva, Greece, on a historical and cultural tour with olive farming

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