Millennial olive trees of the Arion

The Arion offers a humanised landscape where time seems to have stopped for hundreds of years. Only the phenomenal perimeter of the trunks of olive trees and their twisted shapes confirm that this has not been the case. Some specimens were planted during the Middle Ages, and they continue in their place unperturbed, as if nothing had happened.

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The space is at the foot of the Godall Mountains and includes 22 olive trees from the 386 family known as the ancient Arion olive trees. Some of these trees reach the 1.700 years old! An impressive number for a living organism. Specifically "farga de l'Arión" is the biggest olive tree in the world. It recieved the AEMO prize for the best monumental olive tree in Spain in 2006. According to the date of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, it was planted in 314 AD. With its 1.705 years, it is the oldest olive tree in the world scientifically dated.

Also noteworthy are the dry stone constructions which, together with the olive trees, constitute an agricultural landscape of dry land that has remained almost intact for twenty centuries.

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