About This Experience

Wooden screw presses from the 1700s stand inside the Antico Frantoio D'Annibale, and this tour of Pianella walks you from those antique machines to a modern working mill, an oil tasting and a lunch of local specialties, all in one of Abruzzo's historic oil cities. Pianella sits in the green hills of Pescara's province, and its identity is pressed, literally, from the olive. Known for centuries as an oil town, its groves produce some of the region's most reputed extra virgin, and the tour is built to show the craft across time: at the Antico Frantoio D'Annibale you admire the eighteenth-century wooden screw presses that powered the trade for generations, then watch their modern descendants at work before tasting the results. The oil tasting is a genuine education: colour, aroma, bitterness and that essential peppery finish, decoded with local guidance until you can tell a fresh, serious oil from a supermarket imposter, a skill that pays dividends for life. Lunch follows the same philosophy: typical local dishes built on the town's own produce, the oil naturally in a starring role alongside Abruzzo's rustic, generous cooking. Meals in towns like Pianella are what Italian food memories are actually made of, no tourist menu, no rush, just the region on a plate. Your local guide carries the day's stories: the olive's place in the town's history, the families behind the mills, and the green-hilled countryside that makes the province of Pescara such quietly rewarding territory for travellers who venture beyond the coast. The meeting point is Pianella's own Piazza Garibaldi, and the tour's pace is village-appropriate: unhurried, conversational and fed. Booking runs through Wine Trails online with instant confirmation, direct to the operator and clean of any middleman fee. Pianella pairs naturally with a hills-day itinerary: Loreto Aprutino's wine estates and the vineyards of the Pescara hinterland sit within easy reach, letting oil and wine share one unhurried loop. Comfortable shoes and a spare corner of luggage are the only preparations that matter, the mill's bottles insist on coming home with you. Tuscany turned its oil towns into attractions decades ago; Abruzzo never bothered, which is exactly their charm. Pianella's presses, old and new, are still just doing their job, and this tour pulls up a chair, and a plate, beside them.

Meeting Point

Piazza garibaldi, Pianella, 65019, IT

Comune di Pianella

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Cancellation Policy

90% charge within 23 hours.