From a hundred-year-old grove of Minuta and Verdello olive trees — the rarest cultivars and recognsied slow food presidium, comes the extra virgin olive oil at the heart of everything LongiOro makes. Verified on the XRP Ledger. Milled December 2026.
Oliveto Letizia borders the Parco dei Nebrodi, a diverse landscape and Sicily's largest protected natural area. Located in the mountains of northern Sicily above Capo d'Orlando.
Tucked into the Sicilian hillside above Capo d'Orlando, a 300-year-old farmhouse and oil mill stood silent for generations — its stone walls weathered, its ancient barrels and Norman watchtower ruin long forgotten. The restoration of Oliveto Letizia is more than a renovation. It is a commitment to the land, to the craft, and to the belief that the finest olive oil begins with roots that run deep.
We are returning a semi-wild discovered grove and the old stone Casale to full harvest — exactly as the land always intended.
'Gold that endures through time.' (LongiOro)
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From the Grove
Nono Ignazio left for Australia over a century ago. This oil is our journey home.
Returning to the Mountains of Sicily.
A little over a hundred years ago, Ignazio Letizia left Capo d'Orlando on the northern coast of Sicily for Australia. He spent fifty years as a cane farmer in north Queensland, raised a family in Brisbane, and never returned to Sicily.
Four generations of an Australian family kept the thread alive. His granddaughter — the fourth generation from Capo d'Orlando — purchased a farm in the mountains above the town he was born in. She named it Oliveto Letizia.
The farm is a semi-wild grove of 800 centennial Minuta and Verdello olive trees — ancient cultivars of the Nebrodi, recognised by Slow Food as a Presidium variety. Growing high above the Sicilian coastline on the northern slopes of the Nebrodi Mountains the trees were not planted by anyone still alive. They have been here, largely without intervention, for longer than any living memory.
Oliveto Letizia is our return to the mountain, the cultivars, and the practice the Nebrodi has always followed. The name on the farm honours the Letizia family who stayed behind.
