Roads converge on this tree rather than around it. The Glorieta del Trillo, where the Carretera de Somosaguas, the Paseo de los Castanos and the Camino de Rodajos all meet inside Casa de Campo, is named for the holm oak growing at its centre, a roughly 300 year old specimen with a crown 18.5 metres across and a trunk 4.6 metres around. Casa de Campo itself was a royal hunting estate from the 16th century until 1931, when the Second Republic opened it to the public, which means this oak spent roughly two centuries of its life on private land reserved for the Spanish crown's deer and boar hunts rather than growing in anything resembling a public park. Holm oaks are Iberia's signature evergreen, slow growing and built to survive exactly the hot, dry summers and cold winters Madrid delivers, and this one has outlasted the hunting estate, the monarchy that owned it, and the Republic that opened the gates, still marking the same road junction today.
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Glorieta del Trillo, Casa de Campo, 28011 Madrid
You can recognise it by the trunk, 4.6 metres round, under a crown 18.5 metres across. It stands alone at the centre of the Glorieta del Trillo in Casa de Campo, where three roads meet and the roundabout is named after it.
Casa de Campo (Metro L5/L10), 20 min walk or park shuttle
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