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According to Ulcinj tradition a man can not be married until he had planted at least one olive tree. For centuries Ulcinj has been an active olive-growing region, giving Ulcinj a reputation for fine olive oils. Ulcinj's olive harvest season and edible oil production period typically begins in November and continues into February. Harvest time is a memorable experience for those than can partake due to the singing of the pickers.
In the Valdanos area there are major parcels of land devoted to olive tree plantings. The Ulcinj olive plantation Ullishta), with 74,000 trees is the second largest on the Adriatic coast, most of it in one complex. The average age of the olive trees in this area well over 300 years, and some of the trees date from the days of ancient Greece in the 5th century B.C..
The Ulcinj olive plantations include tree species that yield a variety of olive oils. In days of old, Ulqini olive oil in amphoras earthenware pots was a commodity worth its weight in gold, and shipped to Trieste, Venice, Rome, Cairo and into interior areas such as Shkoder, Shkup, Duklje, Rash, and Prizren.
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