What is the oldest tree in Cagliari?
The oldest tree in Cagliari is the cypress in the Pirri cemetery, which Sardinian press covering its 2025 protection puts at more than two hundred years old: it was already standing when the burial ground was consecrated in November 1913. The only tree here that comes close is the Tintitaco in the Parco della Rimembranza, and its own record disagrees with itself, roughly 166 years on the Italian tree registry against about 200 in local reporting. The figs are younger than both. The two on the city squares are given 140 to 150 years, and the pair in the Giardini Pubblici anywhere between 140 and 195, a range nobody has narrowed.
Ages are the soft part of the record in Cagliari, and it is worth knowing why. Italy's national register of monumental trees, which covers every tree on this page, measures girth and height and carries no age field at all. Every year given here therefore comes from somewhere else: local and regional newspapers, the council's own designation notices, or the independent Italian tree registry, which is the only source that has dated the Tintitaco. Where two of those disagree, this page gives both figures rather than choosing. Access is simpler. All eight trees stand on free public ground, six of them within a kilometre and a half of each other in the centre, the seventh four kilometres out in Pirri on a bus route, and the eighth eighteen kilometres out in Dolianova on the regional train. Two qualifications: a precautionary fence rings the ground under the station fig, so you can stand beside it and not under it, and the Pirri cypress is in a working cemetery with visiting hours. Two further register trees in Cagliari were checked and left off, a Norfolk Island pine and a coral tree, both standing on private ground.
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