The Gil family has pressed olives at this mill since 1900, drawing on roughly 6,000 trees across one of Europe's oldest olive-growing districts, some over a thousand years old and still hand-picked because their size defeats mechanical harvesters. Four generations in, the mill pairs that hand-harvest tradition with modern centrifugal extraction to produce single-varietal Picual, Arbequina, and Empeltre extra virgin oils.
Palacio de la Encomienda presses olive oil in the Matarraña comarca, working Empeltre and other native varieties grown on Aragón's ancient olive terraces. The producer sells its extra virgin oils directly under its own name from the mill in La Fresneda, one of the villages whose fortunes were built on olive cultivation.
Best for Empeltre and native-variety extra virgin olive oil pressed from Aragón's ancient terraces
A long-standing craft house in the medieval town of Albarracín, Jarreta sells Aragonese ceramics, wrought-iron forja, woodwork and local delicatessen products. It also keeps a small Museo de Forja, a working nod to the forge trade behind the ironwork on its shelves.
Best for Aragonese ceramics, ironwork and local delicatessen
Biocalaceite makes organic extra virgin olive oil in Calaceite using an unpressed, traditional method the family likens to how oil was made a thousand years ago. The range covers organic extra virgin oils and cured Aragon olives sold directly from the mill.
Now in its fifth generation, this Teruel ceramics workshop has run a retail shop in the city center since 1976, hand-painting traditional Turolense pottery, tiles, and restoration pieces the way its founders did back in 1900. Master artisan Laureano Cruzado has overseen the workshop for more than fifty years, from ceramic street signs to full monument restorations.
Jamón Mudéjar is the retail brand of Elaborados Las Torres, a Teruel butchery family that has cured D.O. Teruel ham and cold cuts at its facility on Calle Florencia for nearly fifty years. Whole hams and paletillas are sold online with 24–48 hour delivery, alongside a bodega-aged line matured at 900 meters of altitude.
A fourth-generation family estate with roots in the 19th century, Mas dels Castellans presses Empeltre, Arbequina, and Picual extra virgin olive oils in Calaceite. It also runs guided olive-grove tours and oil tastings across its groves in the Matarrana comarca.
Oleo Calaceite mills extra virgin olive oil at its plant in Calaceite, in the MatarraM-CM-1a country of Teruel where olive growing anchors the local economy. The producer has pressed oil for more than two decades and also processes olive-pit byproduct from the harvest.
Best for Over two decades in Teruel's Matarraña olive country