At Vlychada on Santorini, Aegean Islands, the historical tomato factory of D. Nomikos has been transformed into a remarkable Industrial Tomato Museum.
This institution takes visitors on a journey back to Santorini’s industrial past, when tomato processing was the island’s most important industry before tourism.
Santorini’s Tomato Industrial Heritage
- Industrial Museum Tour: Explore the beautifully preserved industrial tomato processing facility and discover Santorini’s pre-tourism economic history through a full range of processing machinery dating back to 1890
- Tomato Heritage: Learn about the Santorini tomato — a tiny, intensely flavoured cherry tomato unique to the island’s volcanic soil — and its role in shaping the island’s food culture, through hand-written account books, old tools, the first labels used, and a dated history of Santorini
- Audiovisual Experience: Watch audiovisual material featuring narrations from people who worked in the plant, witnessing their firsthand experiences of a by-gone industrial era
A unique industrial heritage museum experience on Santorini, Aegean Islands. Book through Gastronomy Tours.
