Thirty and a half metres is very tall for a stone pine, which usually spends its effort going sideways into the flat-topped umbrella everybody recognises. This one went up instead, on a trunk 3.81 metres round with a crown only 18.8 metres across, which is narrow for the height. It stands 330 metres south of Romanya de la Selva, a hamlet on a ridge above the Costa Brava that is best known for what is next to it: the Cova d'en Daina, a megalithic passage grave with a stone circle around it, built somewhere around 3000 BC and one of the best preserved in Catalonia. Whatever this pine's age, the ground it stands on has been a place people go to for five thousand years. Catalonia declared it a monumental tree in 1991 under two names, the Pi Gros d'en Cama and the Pi de Romanya, which is normal for these trees: the register keeps the farm name and the village name side by side because both are in local use. Its condition is recorded as normal and no age is published.
The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.
330 metres south of Romanya de la Selva, Santa Cristina d'Aro 17246, GironaYou can recognise it by its narrow, upright shape, 30.5 metres tall, unlike the flat umbrella crown a stone pine usually spreads. It stands south of Romanya de la Selva.
Free, in open country south of the hamlet
Romanya de la Selva, about 20 km southeast of Girona
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Arbres monumentals de Catalunya
- mediambient.gencat.cat
- ca.wikipedia.org
