The Stone Pine of Santa Maria de Trassierra
roughly 90 yearsStone Pinepin approximate
Santa Maria de Trassierra is a village in the hills above Cordoba, and this stone pine is one of the specimens the city's own catalogue of singular trees reaches out beyond the city walls to include. Three metres twenty six round, twenty five metres tall, and estimated at about ninety years old, it is younger than most trees on this list but old enough, and large enough, to have earned its own entry in an official register that mostly protects far older specimens. Pinus pinea is the pine that shapes half of Mediterranean Spain's skyline, its flat, umbrella-shaped crown grown for shade and for the pine nuts inside its cones, both of which took centuries of selective planting to produce the tree people now picture as wild. A tree this size at this age has grown fast even by the species' own standards, likely helped by open ground and full sun in a small village rather than competition in a planted stand. Reaching it from central Cordoba means the Aucorsa L-T bus, about nineteen minutes, but the line runs only a handful of times a day, so check the timetable before building a trip around it. Nobody has published a closer account of exactly where in the village it stands. If you have seen it, tell us.
The button above opens directions in your maps app. Reachable by Aucorsa bus line L-T from central Cordoba in about 19 minutes, but the line runs only about five services a day, which strains the day-trip boundary; check the timetable before planning a visit around it.
The pin marks the right spot roughly, not the tree itself. It stands here, but we have not confirmed the precise position on the ground yet. Know exactly where it is?
- Species
- Stone Pine (Pinus pinea)
- Age estimate
- roughly 90 years
- Location
- Santa Maria de Trassierra, Cordoba (Santa Maria de Trassierra, Sierra de Cordoba)
- Access
- Standing in the small village of Santa Maria de Trassierra, in the Sierra de Cordoba above the city. Included in the municipality's own singular-tree catalogue, which generally covers accessible specimens, but this pass could not independently confirm the exact street-level setting (square, street or institutional grounds) beyond the catalogue's coordinate, so treat the setting as likely public but not individually verified.
- Getting there
- Reachable by Aucorsa bus line L-T from central Cordoba in about 19 minutes, but the line runs only about five services a day, which strains the day-trip boundary; check the timetable before planning a visit around it.
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