The Plane of the Riera de Gaia Square

This tree is the square. La Riera de Gaia is a small town inland from the coast north of Tarragona, and the plane standing in its Placa de la Vila takes up most of it, which is the way these things went in Catalan villages: a plane was put in the square because it grows fast, casts dense shade by June and can be pollarded hard every few years without complaint, and then it outlived the reason and became the thing the square is named for. Catalonia declared it a monumental tree in 1992, which makes cutting it illegal. It is one of the trees selected for the book Arboles singulares de Espana, where it takes a two-page spread. The register lists it as being in normal condition and, unusually for that source, publishes no dimensions for it at all, so this page cannot tell you how thick it is, only that Catalonia thought it worth protecting and that a national survey of Spain's singular trees agreed. If you have measured it, tell us.