That Galicia was the land of Olivos is no secret but less known is that they were subject to indiscriminate logging at the time of the Catholic Monarchs given by the taxes that were for each planted olive tree (1 real for each). Only those of the mountains and the mountains that escaped the control of the Public Treasury and those that had the churches in their vicinity survived because they were exempt from this tribute, using them to make the holy oils and those that apply in the unit of the sick.

The oldest olive trees are found in towns such as Redondela or Arbo. There is a kind of native Galician olive tree.

The existence of numerous place names such as olive, olive groves, oliveira survive in the streets and Galician towns. In fact, Vigo was known as the city of Olivo and nowadays an olive city, partly because of the many olive trees it had and the olive tree that survived in the Santa Maria de Vigo cathedral. Continuing today on the promenade of Alfonso XII one from a cutting thereof.