Σαπωνοποιία Πατούνη

Today I'm visiting Corfu city once more and I have to change my mind... it's a nice little town with a nice weekly market and cosy Greek cafes just outside the pedestrian zone - just avoid the afternoon and only go there in pre-season 🤪.

While strolling around, I stumbled over Patounis' Soap Factory.

Patounis' Soap Factory is a family business for making pure traditional soap from locally produced olive products.

Their most valued asset is the ancestral recipes and practice that have been passed on from father to son for five successive generations.

Their premises, preserved with the functioning tools and equipment dating from 1891, constitute a living memory of a unique local tradition. Therefore, in recent years the soap factory has become the subject of academic studies while attracting visitors from the tourist and educational sector. It has been a listed monument of industrial heritage with the Greek Ministry of Culture since 2008.

In 2017 the soap making technique of Patounis' Soap Factory was inscribed on the National Inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Greece and the Lists which the relevant Convention of UNESCO has set forth.Read more