Villa Oliveto is located directly at the Aegean Sea at the Turkish west coast, vis-à-vis to the Greek island of Samos. The history of Villa Oliveto began around the year 2000, on a rainy day, when I took a walk with my friends on the field. After it rained cats and dogs over hours, the clouds settled on the top of the mountains, as if they wanted to rest a bit before they move on. The sun tried to free itself from the fog of the clouds, while caring for a fantastic play of colors. The earth smelled like never before. The sea and the island of Samos made the necessary frame for this unique natural spectacle.

This was nature of how everyone in life at least once to get to and I was the middle of it, better said, I was one with nature. However, one thing darkened this wonderful picture. The huge amounts of water from the sky tore meter high grooves in the Mother Earth. The roots of single trees came to the surface.

As wonderful this scene was previously, this scene frightened me even more. The rain swilled the slopes, threw around trees, stripped the soil of its green dress. This consisted mainly of macchie (sclerophyllous shrubs, typical Mediterranean vegetation). The macchie with its weak roots was not resistance enough to stand this violence of nature and drifted by the water volume of the resulting streams downwards. The surrounding olive fields defied these amounts of water, wrapped the mother earth with a green and silver dress and had this to appear majestically.

I got the vision, to plant the entire area with olive trees, to soothe the water flow and posterity the "queen" of all the trees, the olive tree behind. There should be a kind of "Tuscany Turkey" arise, but with the particularity that the Aegean Sea may be to the nearest thousand years the neighbor of the olive trees. The sun may wish them every evening good night, before the last light on the bedside table of the island of Samos turns off and slowly doss down in its waterbed, the Aegean.
After some research and regulatory obstacles, the project "Villa Oliveto" started in 2003. The area may now no longer divided into lots less than 20,000 square meters and there must be no housing development, which could destroy this "ideal world".