Introduction
There are olive trees – no longer cultivated – on both sides of the path and we will take this opportunity to explain the old common tradition, now lost, of making kindling from olive trees. “In the past, using a hoe or an axe, people would tear the dry part of the wood of the trunk from the olive trees, the splinters from which, taupes, were used as firewood at a time when wood was highly appreciated, as it was the only fuel available. This custom has resulted in the trunks of our olive trees being very hollowed and twisted, something we very much like to see nowadays.”
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