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The Plane Tree of Biar

Biar, L'Alt Vinalopó, Alicante

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The Plane Tree of Biar

Nature · Biar, L'Alt Vinalopó, Alicante

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El Plátano de Biar is a centuries-old London plane tree located in the town centre of the Alicante municipality, on the promenade that bears its name, on the way to the sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace. It stands about 26 metres tall, a little over six metres in diameter at a height of one and a half metres, and about 30 metres across the crown; it is estimated to be 250 years old, and its great growth is due to having grown for centuries beside orchards and an irrigation channel, in a setting that is now entirely urban. It is the oldest and stoutest specimen of its species in the Valencian Community and one of the largest in girth in all of Spain, for which reason it is protected by the Valencian Monumental Tree Heritage law and stands within a fenced urban garden. Now mature, it is sickly and weakened by the continual pruning it has undergone.

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