Downy Oak

Toritto, a hamlet roughly 18 km from central Bari

The Roverella of Pilapalucci grows inside the walls of a working farm, which means nobody wanders up to it by accident.

100-200 years · Colle della Maddalena (Circoscrizione 8, Torino hill)

Turin counts sixteen monumental trees within its borders, and this oak might not quite be one of them.

100-150 years · San Giovanni

Of the forty-eight trees Trieste protects as monumental, one belongs to a university.

Goni

This one is a different oak from the others, and the difference is the whole reason it is worth a separate stop.

Just outside the walls, on the old road to the Eremo delle Carceri

Assisi stops at this oak.

Valecchie, a hamlet (frazione) of Assisi, lower and west of the walled historic centre

Italy added this oak to its national register of monumental trees on 24 July 2026, and it went straight in as the tallest tree Umbria has on that list.

300-400 years · Orbán-hegy

In 2016 a hollow oak on a vineyard hill in southern Hungary beat every other tree in Europe, with 72,653 votes, a record for the contest at the time.

Fonte Colombo, Rieti

Francis of Assisi is said to have told Brother Leo the story of perfect joy somewhere near this sanctuary: that true gaiety is not miracles or fame but bearing insult and hardship for Christ's sake...

150-300 years · Prepo

Downy oak is the tree Umbrian hillsides are made of, and hardly any of them get this big.

150-300 years · Prepo

The two oaks of Strada del Gioco differ by eight centimetres of girth and one metre of height, and they stand 150 metres apart.

150-300 years

Four hundred and twenty seven centimetres round is a serious trunk for a species that usually stays modest.