Almazara - Rincón de la Victoria, Spain - Millstones on Waymarking.com

This conical traditional olive millstone was used to extract the oil present in olive drupes. The millstones were driven by animals such as mules or horses, grinding the olives into a paste to obtain olive oil.

People have used olive presses since Greeks first began pressing olives over 5,000 years ago. Roman olive presses survive to the present time, with a notable collection present at Volubilis in Morocco. An olive press works by applying pressure to olive paste to separate the liquid oil and vegetation water from the solid material. The oil and vegetation water are then separated by standard decantation. This basic method is still widely used today, and it is still a valid way of producing high quality olive oil if adequate precautions are taken.

The modern method of olive oil extraction uses an industrial decanter to separate all the phases by centrifugation. In this method the olives are crushed to a fine paste. This can be done by a hammer crusher, disc crusher, depitting machine or knife crusher.

This almazara is located at the entrance to a residential community named "Urbanization Los Olivos" in Rincón de la Victoria.

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Type of mill: Unknown What did this millstone make?: Olive oil Status of Stone: Public Display Website containing relating information: Not listed

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