The Olive Tree of La Rambleta

This olive has stood through more than a dozen generations of Valencians without ever needing to move, unlike almost every other tree on this list, which the city has planted, transplanted or rescued from demolition at some point in its life. It grows in Parque de la Rambleta, a 14 hectare green space wedged between the San Marcelino neighbourhood and the General Cemetery in the south of the city, among a Mediterranean garden of date palms, Greek olives, cypresses, carob trees and a cedar of Lebanon. City sources place its age at roughly 400 years, without an individually documented planting record, which is typical for old olives generally: the species hollows and re-grows from its own base over centuries, making ring counts unreliable even where felling would be permitted. It is named directly, on the city's own monumental trees route, as the oldest single tree among all five of its mapped trails, a title that puts it ahead of trees standing in far more visited parts of the city.