La Adrada is a village in the Tietar valley of Avila province, and its famous tree is a hike above it, in a gorge in the eastern foothills of the Sierra de Gredos. The Pino del Aprisquillo is a Spanish black pine of roughly 350 to 450 years, five to six metres round. It won Spain's Tree of the Year vote in 2016 and represented Spain in the European Tree of the Year contest in 2017.
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Pino del Aprisquillo
Spanish Black Pine (Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii) · roughly 400 years · Charco de la Hoya gorge, eastern foothills of the Sierra de Gredos, La Adrada
In 2016 Spain voted for its Tree of the Year, and the winner was a pine you have to climb a gorge to see. The Pino del Aprisquillo stands beside the Arroyo del Aprisquillo in the Charco de la Hoya, below the Cerro de la Escusa, in the eastern foothills of the Sierra de Gredos. The next year it carried Spain's colours in European Tree of the Year, one of sixteen national candidates.
It is a Spanish black pine, Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii, which people in La Adrada call cascalbo for its pale bark. The measurements depend on who took them. Its girth is given as anything from five metres to 5.9 at the base, its height mostly between 25 and 30 metres, and one outlying report says 43. Its age comes out the same way: about 400 years in one account, over 400 in another, 350 in a third. Call it three and a half to four and a half centuries, and nobody has counted the rings.
In that time, a regional paper wrote when it won, it has come through plagues, fires and every other hardship a mountain pine meets.
Getting there is part of it. Two marked routes climb from the valley, roughly ten kilometres there and back with about 630 metres of ascent, and the last stretch can be overgrown. The village put up new signs for this route in 2023.
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