The main building has a beautiful architecture in a more classic Andalusian style, with an area of reception of visits, administrative units, social units, quality control, catas, packaging area and warehouses of raw materials and finished products. It also has a small two-phase ecological mould and a patio with reception awnings, washing machine and stainless steel cleaner.

Our environment

Génave is a small municipality in the province of Jaén, located to the north of the Sierra de Segura region. The municipality is part of the Natural Park of the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas, the largest protected space in Spain, whose environmental characteristics have been worth the recognition of the Biosphere Reserve.

Our landscape is made up of a wide valley of asymmetric slopes and alominated reliefs crowned by the Picarzo, 1,296 m high. In our term, the Herreros River and some streams such as the Culebras and the Cambrón run.

Apart from the main population core, the villages of "La Almohadilla," "Las Grillas," "Las Atalayas" (where there is an archaeological site of dinosaurs) and "La Venta del Pilar" are also known as "La Venta del Fungo."

The main resource of this region is the production of high quality olive oil and Génave stands out as a pioneer in the cultivation of the organic olive tree. The dominant variety in the production area is Picual, which is 97% of the area's olive groves. The trees are very vigorous, with somewhat short branches and with a tendency to produce ramifications in braces. Its fruits, from 2.5 to 3.5 grams, have an oil yield of 21 to 25%. It is a variety with good resistance to cryptogamic diseases, being very resistant to low temperatures.

Oleílica San Francisco is located in the Jiennense town of Begíjar, where it has facilities fully adapted to guided tours, bus parking area, services adapted to people with disabilities, access ramps, attached areas, projection room with seats for 25 people, large tasting room for courses and tastings, etc.

Attended by tourism professionals and almazara teachers to offer the best service to their visitors, Oleicola San Francisco, the almazara where the best AOVE in the World is made, opens its doors to anyone who wants to enter the fascinating oil world.

Guided tours every day in Spanish, English and French. It includes: introduction to the world of oil, details of the operation of an almazara, complete explanation of the processing process, visit to the interior of the almazara and old winery, and tasting - tasting of extra virgin olive oils "Essential Olive."

Next to the monumental city of Baeza, Oleícola San Francisco has become the first tourist mill in the province of Jaén, with registration at the Tourism Board of the Junta de Andalucía. In 1989, Manolo Rus and José Jiménez decided to embark on this fascinating olive oil world, acquiring a small factory in Begijar. With a lot of illusion and a few means, they raised together what is today a real reality, a family company, traditional and at the same time at the forefront in means of production. The beginnings were difficult and the means they had were those of the time: hydraulic presses, capachos, decanting stoves, great atroops and, above all, the illusion each year of getting the best of the possible oils. It has facilities fully adapted to guided tours, bus parking area, services adapted to disabled, access ramps, attached areas, projection room with seats for 25 people, large tasting room for courses and tastings, etc.

Our oils come from olives of a Picual variety, whose olive groves extend throughout the Sierra de Segura, in particular from the municipalities of Beas de Segura, Chiclana de Segura, Sorihuela del Guadalimar and Arroyo del Ojanco, and it is the product of the good doing of our partners - harvesters who as the main objective have to care for and pamper their olive plantations for the best of the fruits.

Once the fruit is collected, it is transported to our modern facilities, separating the olive from the soil from the tree. Our Extra Virgin Olive Oil is extracted from the olive tree and after a careful preparation.

The opening of the new mill in 2014 and subsequent opening in September 2015 was a commitment to oleoturism as an instrument for diversification of the traditional business model, but also as a pedagogical tool, to spread the culture of olive oil and to disseminate the excellence of AOVE, against other fats.

The new facilities were designed with a view to their tourist function, promoting the compatibility between the oil extraction and bottling activity and the possibility of visiting, oil tasting, tasting, participating in the processes, interpreting and educating about the production of the oil, about its organoleptic and pharmaceutical properties, with a store and restaurant. It should be noted as a milestone that more than 1,000 farmers bet on tourism as a tool for productive diversification and prescription and health education of AOVE.

Picualia is well positioned as a reference in Oleoturismo thanks to its services and its strategic location, on foot of the A-4 motorway, exit 299. Premioned by AEMO 2015-2016, as the best mill in Spain and certified by the SICTED, in Tourist Quality. Its innovative facilities offer a complete oleoturistic experience, where all kinds of events, guided tours, tasting, tasting and, ultimately, a unique experience that inculcates the rich culture of the olive tree.

Picualia offers a catalogue with 18 tourist packages, in which the experiences of AOVE tourism go further, completing with historical tours, cultural connotations, sensations of walking with braves, flora and varied fauna, among many other activities, all accompanied by tastings of the best dishes made with our best AOVE.