The slimmest of Miramare's five big Aleppo pines is as tall as the fattest. It measures 3.05 metres round the trunk and twenty-five metres to the top, the same height as the grove's heaviest pine, which carries more than sixty centimetres of extra girth to get there. The national register holds those figures and Italy's citizen tree register confirmed them in person in October 2021. It also stands a little apart. Four of the other protected pines stand in two close pairs; this one is about ninety metres southeast of the largest, on its own. All six are protected as a group, part of the planting Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg started in 1856 when he set out to make a garden on a promontory of bare Karst limestone with the sea on three sides. Aleppo pine was a natural choice: a tree of the dry Mediterranean coast that asks for very little soil and tolerates salt. Its age is not recorded; by the one dated pine in the grove, about 130 years, and the park's start date, it lies somewhere between about 115 and 170 years. It has watched the park turn from a Habsburg's private experiment into a free public garden where only the castle charges for entry.
Parco del Castello di Miramare, Viale Miramare, 34151 Trieste You can recognise it by a tall, slim pine, 3.05 metres round and 25 metres high, standing on its own. It is the southeastern outlier of Miramare's protected pines, about ninety metres from the largest of them.
Free, the park is open daily. Only the castle charges admission
Bus 6 from Piazza Oberdan to Grignano, about 25 min, then a short walk into the park