Day: April 1, 2019

“To Each His Own Olive Tree”: Traditional Sayings About Olives and Olive Groves

Passed down through generations, proverbs are an invaluable source of folk wisdom across cultures While they are mainly preserved through oral tradition, they can also be found in ancient texts such as the Bible, Spain’s earliest literary works like The Poem of El Cid, and, of course, Don Quixote by Cervantes, which is filled with […]