Sa Mola de Su Notariu – Museo dell’Olio

Sa Mola de Su Notariu – Museo dell’Olio in Dolianova showcases the history and culture of olive oil in Sardinia, featuring ancient tools, machinery, and documents related to olive oil production.

Planning your visit

Sardinia has pressed olives for millennia, and Sa Mola de Su Notariu at Dolianova occupies a historic mill with its original machinery intact — the stone crushing wheels, the presses, the settling vats and the tools of a process that changed little between antiquity and mechanisation.

The ecomuseum approach means the site is treated as part of a living agricultural landscape rather than as an isolated collection: displays cover cultivation, harvesting, the varieties grown in the region, and the role of oil in Sardinian domestic and religious life.

Tastings are central. Sardinian oils, particularly from the Bosana olive, are distinctive — assertive, bitter and peppery — and tasting them properly, with explanation of what those qualities indicate, changes how one buys oil afterwards.

Dolianova sits in the Parteolla hills inland from Cagliari, in wine and oil country.

Bookable options include museum tours with tasting from Cagliari. Current availability is listed below.