The Andalusian olive grove, World Heritage Site

Fundación Juan Ramón Guillén continues working on a promotion a World Heritage Site declaration for the Andalusian olive grove landscape. The idea was first launched in 2012 and involves the continuous landscape formed by olive groves in the provinces of Córdoba, Granada, Jaén, Málaga and Seville. Success would mean, among other things, enhancing the value of the quality of the Andalusian olive growing sector and its products internationally, promoting the consumption of olive oil and developing tourism based on olive oil.

The proposal has been promoted by Fundación Juan Ramón Guillén, Fundación Savia, the Andalusia Regional Government and the Jaén Provincial Council, local authorities, universities, farming organisations and others.

The declaration of World Heritage is a distinction that UNESCO grants to those sites with features of great value that make them unique in the world. Spain, with a total of 44 sites registered on the World Heritage list is the country with the third highest number of sites, including the Cultural Landscape of the Sierra de Tramuntana Mountains and the Camino de Santiago.

In the past few weeks, our foundation has been part of the citizen platform “Salvemos los Paisajes del Olivar Andaluz a Patrimonio de la Humanidad”, composed by several entities, specialists of the olive sector and university professors from Andalusian universities.