EvooTrends 2026 at Fiera di Roma, December 11 to 13, 2026

EvooTrends 2026, the event devoted to extra virgin olive oil, takes place at Fiera di Roma, at Via Portuense 1645, 00148 Rome, from Friday, December 11 to Sunday, December 13, 2026. Fiera Roma's official calendar lists free admission. You get to Fiera by train on the regional line FL1, which stops at Fiera di Roma station, or by car from the A91 Rome-Fiumicino motorway, with dedicated exits for the fairgrounds. Program, opening hours and access arrangements for the public should be checked on the official EvooTrends site and on the Fiera Roma event page close to the event.

EvooTrends was born as a meeting place for the olive growing and olive oil supply chain: producers, mills, technicians, researchers, restaurateurs, suppliers. But alongside the trade, in past editions, the event has involved students and the public in dedicated activities. For anyone who loves good oil, three days in December, when the new oil has just come out of the mills, are the right moment to understand what is inside a bottle.

EvooTrends 2026: what the extra virgin olive oil fair is

EvooTrends is an event devoted to extra virgin olive oil that Fiera Roma presents as the king of the Mediterranean diet: a meeting place where all the operators of the olive growing and olive oil supply chain come together to discuss the sector's most current topics.

The name

EVOO is the English acronym for extra virgin olive oil, by now used worldwide by industry insiders. Trends means trends. The name already says the ambition: an event that looks at where the oil market is going, more than at celebrating its tradition.

The format

The official presentation lists meetings, debates, workshops and educational labs, with the involvement of partners and suppliers who revolve around the world of oil. It is therefore a fair of content even before stands: you go to listen, taste, learn.

Who organizes it

The organizer listed in the calendar is Fiera Roma S.r.l., the company that runs Via Portuense fairgrounds. The event has its own site, evootrends.it, with materials from previous editions.

Free admission

Fiera Roma's official page lists free admission for EvooTrends. In past editions, according to the published listings, access involved online registration: anyone planning to go should check the official site for if and how to register, to avoid queues.

Who EvooTrends is for: trade and public

EvooTrends is aimed first of all at operators in the olive growing and olive oil supply chain, but also provides activities for students and the public, according to the presentation circulated by Rome's tourism portal.

The trade

Rome's tourism portal lists among the participants the territorial federations, the network of agritourisms, university and research bodies, and the operators and associations of the Ho.Re.Ca. channel, that is, hotels, restaurants and cafés. These are the parties who decide which oil reaches restaurant tables and store shelves.

The students

Among the participants are also students of agricultural and hospitality institutes. It's an important detail: tomorrow's cooks and agricultural technicians learn to recognize a quality oil at occasions just like this.

The public

The public, again according to the presentation, is involved in the activities dedicated to it. The 2026 program isn't yet detailed on the official pages: workshops, guided tastings and hours open to visitors should be checked on the event's site. For a curious consumer, a few hours at EvooTrends are worth more than any label read at the supermarket.

Lazio businesses

For the 2025 edition the Rome Chamber of Commerce had opened a call to host free of charge in an exhibition space up to 32 micro, small and medium-sized businesses and startups from Lazio active in the olive growing and olive oil chain, representing the region's best productions. It's a sign of particular attention to local oil.

The themes of EvooTrends: from economics to health

The themes of EvooTrends, judging from the 2025 edition materials published on the official site, range from the economics of oil to scientific research, from oil tourism to health.

Market, wars and tariffs

One of the meetings documented in 2025 was titled on the positioning of oil between wars and tariffs. It's a concrete topic: extra virgin oil is a product exported worldwide, and international trade tensions weigh directly on Italian producers. Another meeting gave the floor to producers on economy and consumption.

The sensory journey

Among the 2025 videos is a sensory journey for buyers, devoted to getting to know extra virgin oil. Tasting is the key to everything: an oil is judged by nose and mouth, and learning how is the first thing a fair like this can teach.

Oil tourism

A meeting devoted to the professions and challenges of oil tourism points to a growing sector: mill visits, tastings at the farm, stays in olive groves. For Lazio, a region of ancient oils and countryside close to the capital, it's an obvious opportunity.

Research and longevity

Other meetings were devoted to research news, to extra virgin oil as a superfood and to the relationship between oil and longevity. Among the materials is also an interview with Professor Apostolos Kiritsakis, a scholar of olive oil. The science of oil is a serious subject, and hearing it told by those who practice it is one of the best reasons to go.

The market

Among the 2025 videos is also a walk through the market: a sign that, besides conferences, the event had a space where oil is seen, tasted and bought.

The history of EvooTrends: from the Circus Maximus to Fiera di Roma

EvooTrends arrives in 2026 after six editions. According to the published listings, the sixth took place from November 28 to 30, 2025 at the Campagna Amica Market at the Circus Maximus, at Via di San Teodoro 74.

From the center to the Portuense

The move from the farmers' market next to the Circus Maximus to Via Portuense fairgrounds is a change of scale: from an intimate space in the historic center to pavilions designed for large flows. For the Roman public it means a longer trip. For the event, the chance to grow.

From November to December

In 2025 EvooTrends was held in late November, in 2026 it moves to mid-December. For oil it's a detail that matters: in December the olive harvest and milling are largely over, and the campaign's new oil is by now available.

Extra virgin olive oil: what to know before going

Extra virgin olive oil is the highest category of olive oils: it is obtained only by mechanical means, without chemical treatments, and must meet chemical and sensory parameters set by European rules.

The three qualities of tasting

Someone tasting an extra virgin oil looks for three positive sensations: fruitiness, that is, the aroma of fresh olives, bitterness and pungency. Bitterness and pungency, which to the inexperienced consumer seem flaws, are in fact signs of freshness and of a richness in antioxidant substances. One of the pleasures of an oil fair is discovering it with your own palate.

The defects

An extra virgin oil must have no defects on tasting. Rancid, mold, heated are words technicians use to describe poorly stored oils or oils obtained from damaged olives. Learning to recognize them is the consumer's best defense.

How to taste

Professional tasting is done in a small dark glass, warmed in the palm of the hand, smelling first and then drawing the oil in between the teeth. In the educational workshops planned by the event it's likely you'll learn exactly this: it's worth trying at least once.

The new oil

In December the mills' shelves fill up with freshly pressed oil, often green and intense. It's the best time of year to taste: the oil is at the peak of its aromatic qualities, which fade over time.

The oil of Lazio and Rome

Lazio is a region of ancient oil, with long-established production areas at the gates of Rome, from the Sabina to the Tuscia.

The Sabina

Northeast of the capital the hills of the Sabina have been covered in olive groves for centuries, and the oil of the Sabina has a protected designation of origin. For those living in Rome it's the oil next door.

The Tuscia and Canino

To the northwest, in the province of Viterbo, the Tuscia and the Canino area produce oils with a strong personality, these too protected by a designation of origin.

Why it matters at Fiera di Roma

An oil event in Rome is also a showcase for local businesses, as the Chamber of Commerce's call for the 2025 edition showed. Visitors to EvooTrends have the chance to meet producers who can be reached in an hour's drive from the city.

Fiera di Roma: Via Portuense fairgrounds

Fiera di Roma is the capital's fairgrounds, inaugurated in 2006 along Via Portuense, in the Ponte Galeria district, at the western edge of the municipal territory, on the border with Fiumicino.

The project

The complex was designed by the architect Tommaso Valle and covers about 390,000 square meters. Fiera Roma lists nine rectangular pavilions with no pillars and a congress center with 13 halls. The pavilions are linked by an elevated walkway six meters high.

A long history of temporary venues

Rome's fairs looked for a home for a long time. The EUR was designed for the 1942 Universal Exposition, which the war canceled. In the postwar period the Fiera Campionaria was held at the EUR until 1955, then moved to Via Cristoforo Colombo, in a venue opened as temporary in 1959 and kept in use for half a century. In 1998 the Ente Fiera Roma became a joint-stock company, and in 2006 the new venue on the Portuense arrived.

Between city and airport

The location is the key to the project: away from urban traffic, on the motorway to Leonardo da Vinci airport, with its own railway station. For an event that draws operators from all over Italy and abroad, closeness to Fiumicino is a concrete advantage.

The other events

During the year the Fiera hosts very different events: Romics, the comics fair, or Welfair, the healthcare fair, both in October. In December, with EvooTrends, the pavilions open to oil.

How to get to EvooTrends at Fiera di Roma

You get to Fiera di Roma by train on the regional line FL1, which stops at Fiera di Roma station, or by car from the A91 Rome-Fiumicino motorway and from Via Portuense.

By train

The FL1 connects Fiumicino airport with Rome and continues toward Fara Sabina and Orte, passing through Roma Trastevere, Roma Ostiense and Roma Tiburtina. Fiera di Roma station is on the stretch between the city and the airport. It's the simplest solution for those starting from the center, and on weekends it avoids the traffic toward Fiumicino.

By metro

From metro B you get off at Piramide, connected to Roma Ostiense station, and there board the FL1. Alternatively you reach Roma Tiburtina, also on line B.

By car

The Fiera is served by the A91 Rome-Fiumicino motorway, with dedicated exits, and by Via Portuense. From the Grande Raccordo Anulare you take the Rome-Fiumicino toward the airport. The fairgrounds have car parks. Conditions and rates for the EvooTrends days are indicated by the organizers.

The weekend

Two of the three days of EvooTrends fall on Saturday and Sunday. On December weekends the FL1 runs on holiday frequencies: check the times before leaving, especially for the return.

How to organize your visit to EvooTrends

EvooTrends lasts three days, from Friday, December 11 to Sunday, December 13, 2026. Trade visitors will pick Friday, the public probably the weekend.

Reading the program

The first step is to consult the program on the official site and identify the meetings and workshops open to the public. A fair of content can only be visited well with a plan: two or three fixed appointments, and between one meeting and the next a walk among the exhibitors.

Tasting with method

Anyone going to taste should do it unhurriedly, with water and a slice of apple between one oil and the next, as tasters do to cleanse the palate. After five or six oils the palate tires: better a few tastings done well than many done fast.

Buying oil

If you can buy, bring a sturdy bag: oil is heavy. And remember that new oil should be kept dark and cool, away from the stove.

Eating at the fair

The fairgrounds are far from residential neighborhoods: during events you eat at the internal refreshment points. For dinner after the fair it's best to head toward Fiumicino, Ostia or back into the city.

EvooTrends with children and students

The presence of educational workshops in the EvooTrends program makes the event interesting for families and schools too, as long as you check which activities are open to the youngest.

For kids

A workshop on oil teaches a kid how you get from olive to bottle, and why a bitter oil can be better than a sweet one. These are notions that last a lifetime and change the way you shop.

Agricultural and hospitality institutes

For students of agricultural and hospitality institutes, who are among the announced participants, EvooTrends is a chance to meet the world of work: producers, technicians, restaurateurs.

Accessibility at Fiera di Roma

Fiera di Roma is a modern venue, with regular-plan pavilions with no pillars and a congress center: a structure designed for large flows and wide routes. Anyone with specific access or reserved parking needs should contact the organizers before the visit, through the contacts listed on Fiera Roma's official site. For those arriving by train, Fiera di Roma station is connected to the fairgrounds.

What to see around Fiera di Roma

Fiera di Roma is far from the historic center, but close to places that deserve a few more hours.

Ostia Antica

The excavations of Ostia Antica, the port city of ancient Rome, are a few kilometers away. Through the port's warehouses passed also the oil amphorae that supplied the capital: a direct link with the theme of the fair. Next to the excavations is the medieval village of Ostia Antica.

The EUR

On the road toward the center, the EUR offers the rationalist architecture of the district born for the E42 and Fuksas's Nuvola.

Trastevere and Porta Portese

Via Portuense begins at Porta Portese, on the Trastevere bank. Anyone returning by train can get off at Roma Trastevere and close the day in the neighborhood, described in the listing Trastevere: what to see.

Rome in mid-December

Mid-December is the start of the holidays for Rome: lights in the center, markets, nativity scenes in the churches. On the same days as EvooTrends the city offers Christmas concerts and shows, collected in the listing Christmas in Rome. A bottle of new oil bought at the fair is, among other things, one of the most appreciated Christmas gifts you can take home. The weather is cool and may be rainy: the fair, indoors, is a good plan on gray days too.

A curiosity about EvooTrends 2026 at Fiera di Roma, December 11 to 13, 2026

The nicest curiosity about EvooTrends concerns its move. The 2025 edition, according to the published listings, took place at the Campagna Amica Market at the Circus Maximus, on Via di San Teodoro, a stone's throw from the Forum Boarium and the Bocca della Verità. It's an area where, in antiquity, the goods that came up the Tiber from the port passed through. Among them was oil, which arrived in Rome in enormous quantities from the provinces of the empire. In 2026 the event moves to Fiera di Roma, on Via Portuense, a few kilometers from Ostia and the port of Trajan. In a way the oil has retraced backward the road it traveled 2,000 years ago: from the center toward the sea.

The second curiosity concerns the calendar. December is the month of new oil: the olive harvest is concentrated between October and December, and by mid-month most mills have already worked the campaign. An extra virgin fair in December therefore has in hand the best product of the year, just born.

The third is linguistic: EVOO is an English acronym that has become common usage among Italian producers too. It's the sign of a product Italy has made for millennia, but which today is told and sold to the world.

Something nobody tells you about EvooTrends 2026 at Fiera di Roma, December 11 to 13, 2026

What isn't said is that bitterness and pungency, in an extra virgin oil, are qualities and not defects. Many consumers discard oils that tickle the throat, and choose sweet, flat ones, often old or of modest quality. A guided tasting at a fair like EvooTrends can change this reflex in 10 minutes. It's the strongest argument for going as a simple enthusiast.

The second thing is that EvooTrends is an event born for the trade, and the public finds the activities dedicated to it. Don't expect a country fair with tasting counters every meter. Expect meetings, workshops, exhibitors to talk to. Anyone who arrives with a few precise questions, about how to read a label or how to store oil, goes home with professional answers.

The third concerns the road. Fiera di Roma is far from the center, and many Romans never go. By train, though, from Trastevere or Ostiense it takes a few minutes on the FL1: the idea that it's unreachable is more a habit than a reality.

The advice I give you for visiting EvooTrends 2026 at Fiera di Roma, December 11 to 13, 2026

The first piece of advice is to check the program before leaving. The official pages, at the moment, describe the format but not the times and individual meetings open to the public. Close to December the event's site will publish the detail: choose the workshops and guided tastings you're interested in, and organize the visit around them.

The second is to take the train. The FL1 goes directly to Fiera di Roma station. On weekends, with the airport motorway busy with Christmas departures, it's the calmest choice.

The third: arrive with a clean palate. No strong coffee or cigarettes in the hour before tastings, and a little water at hand. It sounds pedantic, but it completely changes how you perceive the oil.

The last: close the day at Ostia Antica, if there's light, or in Trastevere, if it's already evening. After a day on oil, a simple dish dressed with new oil is the best way to test what you've learned.

Another well-known fact, and yet rarely mentioned

It's well known that olive oil was one of the pillars of the diet in ancient Rome. It's less often mentioned that the most impressive proof of that consumption is a few kilometers from the Circus Maximus, where the 2025 edition of EvooTrends took place: Monte Testaccio, the artificial hill formed by the shards of millions of amphorae, mostly oil amphorae that arrived from the provinces and were unloaded in the warehouses along the Tiber. Once emptied, they couldn't be reused, and were smashed and stacked in an orderly way.

The route of that oil passed through the port of Ostia, very close to Fiera di Roma, and went up the river to the Emporium. It's the same geography in which EvooTrends moves between 2025 and 2026: from the Circus Maximus to the Portuense, from the center to the sea.

It's also well known that the EUR was built for an exposition never held. It's less often remembered that from that missed exposition began the long search for a home for Rome's fairs, concluded only in 2006 with Via Portuense fairgrounds designed by Tommaso Valle. Anyone entering the Ponte Galeria pavilions walks on the last chapter of a project born with the E42.

The right photo to take at EvooTrends 2026 at Fiera di Roma, December 11 to 13, 2026

The right photo at an oil fair is the one of the oil itself. A tasting glass against the light, with new oil of an intense green, is a simple and very powerful image: it tells freshness better than any label. Always ask the exhibitor's permission before photographing their product.

The second is a row of bottles from different producers, lined up on a counter, with the colors of the oil shifting from green to golden: a small visual lesson on the variety of Italian oils.

Outside, Fiera di Roma offers wide geometric perspectives, with the pavilions lined up and the elevated walkway linking them. On clear December days the early-afternoon light is low and raking: a wide-angle shot from the forecourt conveys the scale of the fairgrounds.

During the workshops, ask before photographing: in a tasting room silence and concentration are worth more than a shot.

Some important events that happened here in history

The history of Fiera di Roma is recent, but grafted onto a longer one. The first event to remember is the project for the 1942 Universal Exposition, for which the EUR district was started: the war canceled it, and Rome was left without a stable fair venue.

The second is 1959, when the temporary venue on Via Cristoforo Colombo opened, which for 50 years was the Fiera di Roma for generations of Romans.

The third is 1998, with the transformation of the Ente Fiera Roma into a joint-stock company, the prelude to the move to a modern venue.

The fourth is 2006: the inauguration of the new fairgrounds along Via Portuense, outside the city, on the airport motorway, with a railway station on the FL1 line. Since then Ponte Galeria has been the capital's fair gateway.

The fifth concerns the territory. This area, between the Tiber and the sea, was for centuries the access route to Rome for goods arriving from the port: grain, wine, oil. In 2026, with the arrival of EvooTrends at Fiera di Roma, oil returns to this ancient geography.

Who has passed through EvooTrends 2026 at Fiera di Roma, December 11 to 13, 2026

Through EvooTrends, in the editions documented by the official materials, have passed producers, buyers, researchers and technicians of the olive growing chain. Among the voices recorded in 2025 is that of Professor Apostolos Kiritsakis, a scholar of olive oil. The meetings gave the floor to producers, to oil tourism professionals, to those who study the relationship between oil and health.

Rome's tourism portal lists as participants territorial federations, the network of agritourisms, universities and research bodies, operators and associations of the restaurant and hospitality sector, students of agricultural and hospitality institutes. For the 2025 edition the Rome Chamber of Commerce had made available an exhibition space for up to 32 small businesses and startups from Lazio.

Fiera di Roma, for its part, welcomes very different audiences during the year: the kids in costume at Romics, the healthcare managers at Welfair, and in December the oil producers. Few places in the city see worlds so far apart pass through within a few weeks.

Frequently asked questions about EvooTrends 2026

When does EvooTrends 2026 take place?

EvooTrends 2026 takes place at Fiera di Roma from Friday, December 11 to Sunday, December 13, 2026. Opening hours and the detailed program of meetings and workshops are published on the event's official site and on Fiera Roma's event page.

How much does it cost to get into EvooTrends?

For EvooTrends 2026 Fiera Roma's official page lists free admission. In previous editions access involved online registration: it's best to check on the official site if it's required in 2026 too, to avoid waits at the entrance to Fiera di Roma.

Is EvooTrends open to the public?

EvooTrends is designed mainly for operators in the olive growing and olive oil supply chain, but according to the presentation circulated by Rome's tourism portal it also involves students and the public in dedicated activities. Which workshops and meetings are open to visitors should be checked in the official program.

Where is Fiera di Roma?

Fiera di Roma is at Via Portuense 1645, in the Ponte Galeria district, on the western outskirts of Rome, on the border with Fiumicino. It is served by the A91 Rome-Fiumicino motorway, with dedicated exits, and by Fiera di Roma station on the FL1 railway line.

How do you get to EvooTrends by public transport?

To reach EvooTrends at Fiera di Roma you take the regional train FL1 to Fiera di Roma station. The FL1 passes through Roma Tiburtina, Roma Ostiense and Roma Trastevere. From Ostiense there is a connection with metro B at Piramide station.

What do you do at EvooTrends?

At EvooTrends, according to Fiera Roma's presentation, you take part in meetings, debates, workshops and educational labs devoted to extra virgin olive oil, with producers, partners and suppliers of the chain. In 2025 the themes ranged from market and tariffs to oil tourism to research on oil and health.

Where was the 2025 edition of EvooTrends held?

The 2025 edition of EvooTrends, the sixth, was held from November 28 to 30, 2025 at the Campagna Amica Market at the Circus Maximus, at Via di San Teodoro 74, according to the published listings. In 2026 the event moves to Fiera di Roma.

The final advice

EvooTrends is not a country fair, and should be taken for what it is: a trade event that opens a few doors to the public. For those who love to cook, though, a few hours among producers and tasters in December, with the freshly pressed new oil, are worth more than many courses. Check the program, take the train, taste unhurriedly and go home with a good bottle. The rest will be done by the first plate of bread and oil.

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