The Region

Our crops are located in Lousika region of Achaia, where prehistory has left an indelible mark and the soil reveals ancient secrets.

The name of the village derives from the ancient city of Lusi, with references to the historian Polybius and the geographer Pausanias as well as the fact that the athlete of Lusi named Agisilas who was declared winner as “Agisilas of Lusi” at the equestrian games of the 11th Pythian Games at Delphi in 542 BC shows the existence of this ancient Greek city.

Lousika village is located approximately in the middle of the fairly open valley of Peiros river at an altitude of 40 meters above sea level.

The soil, the water, the ancient roots reveal the constant human presence. The current region consisted the seabed during the prehistoric times, hence the soil contain many fossilized seashells of that time.

The area had undoubtedly been inhabited since the Paleolithic era and the findings of the wider valley of the river Peiros leave no doubt that the Paleolithic people had lived in the village of Lousika.

However, the most impressive finding of the region is a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth which was discovered in 1988 while cultivating the land and it consists the first important finding of that kind in South Greece. Also, in the same soil where the current crops of our products are located, a Mycenaean cemetery was discovered by chance, which is one of the largest in Achaia with a total area of about 16 acres.

Several chamber tombs were excavated that contained exceptional grave-goods and bronze weapons, and most likely the cemetery belongs to one of the two peoples who lived there, the “Caucones” and the “Epei”. This region was named as “Cauconia”.

In this region where the people loved the soil, took care of it, cultivated it, took and gave it life over the centuries, today, we continue the long tradition and produce our wine and oil with respect and responsibility in the land of our ancestors.