Samoëns maps one tree, and the village square is named after it. The Gros Tilleul is a large-leaved lime about nine metres round and twenty metres tall, on the Place du Gros Tilleul in the middle of this Haute-Savoie village. From the sixteenth century the council of syndics held its assemblies under the branches, before Samoëns had a town hall, and village gatherings still happen there. Local tradition dates the planting to 1438. The tree is a classified site and one of the two landmarks the village names itself by, the other being the Criou above it.
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The Gros Tilleul de Samoëns
Large-leaved Lime (Tilia platyphyllos) · roughly 590 years · Village centre
Before Samoëns had a town hall, it had this lime. From the sixteenth century the village's council of syndics held its assemblies out in the open under the branches, and the square that grew around the trunk still carries the tree's name: Place du Gros Tilleul. Village meetings are still held there.
Local tradition dates the planting to 1438 and ties it to the right of self-government the village had won from Duke Amédée VIII of Savoy seven years before. That is tradition rather than a ring count, so take the resulting 590 years broadly. The tree is less arguable than its birthday: about nine metres round, twenty metres tall, a large-leaved lime with the heavy low frame those get when nothing crowds them for six centuries.
Samoëns is a stonemasons' village in the Haute-Savoie, and locals name two things when they name the place. One is the Criou, the mountain standing over it. The other is this tree. It is on France's register of remarkable trees and on the departmental list of classified sites, which makes the ground under it legally protected rather than merely well regarded.
It has never stopped being a working village square. No gate, no ticket, and the benches underneath are in daily use.
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