¿Cuál es el árbol más antiguo de Bratislava?

Bratislava's most precisely dated protected tree is the Sophora of Vajanského Embankment, a Japanese pagoda tree (Styphnolobium japonicum) in a small riverside park a few minutes from Hviezdoslav Square. Slovakia's state register and an independent Slovak protected-trees resource agree it was roughly eighty years old when it was formally protected in 1996, which puts its planting near 1916 and its age today at roughly a hundred and ten. An Adriatic oak on the Šulekova stairway carries a similar derived age from a similar dated figure, so the two are close rather than one being clearly oldest, but the pagoda tree gets the answer here for its fuller two-source documentation. A paulownia elsewhere on this page has a disputed age that could put it older still, anywhere from sixty to a hundred and fifty years depending on which source is right, which is exactly why this page states the range rather than picking a winner.

This page is built on Slovakia's own state register of protected trees (Statna ochrana prirody SR, CC BY 4.0), cross-checked against krizom-krazom.eu, an independent Slovak resource that documents protected trees district by district, and against local news where it exists. The register gives species, measurements and a protection year, and for several the age is recorded as of that year rather than updated since, which is why every age here is a derived, 2026-adjusted estimate rather than a fresh measurement. Five of the seven cluster within 1.7 kilometres, from the Danube embankment up the slope toward Bratislava Castle, genuinely walkable in one outing; the plane at Zelezna studnicka is a separate trip to the forest park, and the Grinava Poplar sits a short train ride further out on the Bratislava-Zilina line, still inside a half hour of the capital. Several register entries sitting in private gardens with no evidence of public access are held back as leads; one, a wild service tree at Devin, is confirmed dead by a 2020 news report the register had not caught up with.

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