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Seville built a monument to its most famous Romantic poet around a tree that had nothing to do with him.
Ancient Trees in the Parque de María Luisa
Three of the biggest trees Seville has ever measured stand in this one park.
The city's 2022 survey of its singular trees puts a Norfolk Island pine near the Torre Norte at 44 metres, second tallest in Seville; a bald cypress over the duck island at 35.7 metres, the tallest deciduous conifer it found anywhere; and a plane on the Avenida de Bécquer at 4.70 metres round, the widest of its kind in the catalogue. Ten of the trees we map are here, spread across a park of glorietas and artificial hills where finding them takes an afternoon rather than a lap. One of them came first and the monument came later: the bald cypress at the centre of the Glorieta de Bécquer was already growing when the city built a marble monument to the poet around it in 1911. Entry is free.
All 10 stand in Seville, which maps 43 remarkable trees in total.
Not every tree on this list needed royal patronage or a foreign pedigree to earn its place.
Photo: CarlosVdeHabsburgo (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Two marble columns are the only physical trace left of the pavilion this fig tree now grows inside.
As far as one dedicated local record can tell, this camphor tree has no rivals anywhere in Seville.
At 44 metres this is the second tallest tree in Seville's own survey of its singular trees, a conifer from a single small island in the Pacific standing taller than almost anything else the city ha...
This plane's girth runs to 4.42 metres at chest height and 5.02 at the base, wider than the more famous plane this site already lists on the Macarena wall, though shorter at 25 metres than that one...
The city's 2022 survey rates this stone pine's condition as optimal across every measure it takes: physiology, structure and plant health all clean, no biological agent recorded.
This bald cypress runs 35.7 metres tall, the tallest deciduous conifer in Seville's own survey of its singular trees, with a crown spreading 23.3 metres over the Isla de los Patos, the duck island...
At 4.70 metres round, this is the widest plane in Seville's survey of its singular trees, wider than either the Macarena wall plane or the Glorieta de Juanita Reina plane already published on this...
Most palms grow one trunk from one root.
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