Olive Grove Tour/Olive Oil Tasting in Ubeda, Baeza area

Consider contacting the Olive and Olive oil visitor center, Úbeda. It might be able to help with current information.

We went to the "olive interpretation centre" mentioned above. It is moderately diverting and, at least when we went, ran tours. With apologies, I'll just mention Ubeda is delightful (as is Baeza), and with a short visit you might not consider seeing an olive farm up close as a priority compared to the local cities' architecture. Also, we thought the shops/potteries of the Tito pots Ubeda is famous for more interesting. But if olives are your thing, then this is the website and includes tasting events. If it comes up in Castilian then tap the index and change to the British flag to get English.

https://centrodeolivaryaceite.com/

Thank you both for the replies!
Nick, if you have more information about Ubeda, i would love any touring suggestions you have. We will definitely be interested in shopping for the Tito pottery. Do you have any favorite shops?

A few years ago we stayed in Baeza for two nights and also visited Úbeda. I learned about these two towns from recommendations here on this forum. We took a cab over to Úbeda, spent several hours there and took the public bus back to Baeza. The historic centers of both towns are so attractive and very picturesque. Lots of narrow streets and the architecture is amazing and neither is very extensive. Úbeda also has a parador right on its main plaza. In Úbeda I visited Casa Museo Andalusí, which I believe is sort of a museum in an old Andalusian house with a rather intriguing collection of random old items from Andalusia (I liked it) and also the Sinagoga del Agua. Both towns have little tourist trains that you can catch and do a general ride around the area to familiarize yourself. There are wonderful scenic lookout points in Baeza, where you see for miles onto the hundreds of thousands of olive trees in the Guadalquivir Valley. There is a Mirador de las Murallas and Mirador del Obispo. Just keep wandering beyond the cathedral and you will come to the lookout points. I see on the map that ther are also several miradores (lookout points) in Úbeda.

We also wanted to visit an olive oil farm. Our hotel recommended oleícola San Francisco on Calle Pedro Pérez in the nearby town of Begíjar. We didn't get to actually tour the olive groves but rather the olive oil processing facility with taste tests and a man who explained how they used to press the olives with the old presses and the new modern machinery that is used. The man talked about the different types of oil and we tasted several and they also have a small shop for purchases. This is their website Oleícola San Francisco. We did not have a car and we took a cab there and back. It is only a few minutes away from Baeza. I am sure there are other olive farms and mills in the area too, maybe some even take you out to the groves. Since you will have a car it will be much easier for you to get around but within the towns themselves you will not need the car. All very walkable.

Debbie, there isn't much I can add to Pat's description. Both Ubeda and Baeza are very attractive and fairly small; I think the delight in both is walking around their centres looking at the harmonious buildings, sitting at cafes in the squares and taking in the views from various lookouts.

Ubeda also has city walls to visit (Baeza does too, I think; I don't recall).

So far as going inside buildings, in Ubeda the Chapel El Salvador is incredible (in an over the top, "bling" way), and the Convent and former palaces are also pleasant (one palace is now the parador you can stay in).

For Tito pottery there is a small museum on calle Valencia. On the same street are several pot shops - I think some have potteries and sell their own stuff. I don’t remember any names but they were all in that area. I'm not sure if any were selling actual Tito pieces, but they had locally made pottery in the Tito style, especially using the green colour glazing.

Hi,
Slightly off topic. Baeza has the Cafe Central Theatre and place to enjoy a drink and be amazed at the funky decorating job of its interior.

B and Ubeda are nice places to visit.

Olive oil tour...it was OK. Learned about the modernization of the industry. How fresh it should be to be good.

wayne iNWI