OP LATIUM’s agronomic technical staff will carry out a restoration pruning intervention on Palombara Sabina’s thousand-year-old olive tree ([i]U’Livò[/i]), in collaboration with Coldiretti Palombara Sabina, the socio-cultural association “La Palombella”, and the Municipality of Palombara Sabina.
The activity will take place on 22 February 2019, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
In 1849, Antonio Nibby, in his historical-topographical-antiquarian analysis of the map of the surroundings of Rome, speaking of Palombara Sabina and the nearby fifteenth-century Convent of San Francesco, noted the imposing presence of this gigantic olive tree, located not far from the Palombara cemetery, probably the oldest specimen in all of Sabina.
“[i]In the olive grove that is crossed going from this convent towards the Terra there is an olive tree whose trunk, measured by me in the year 1823, had a circumference of 42 palms[/i]”
It is believed that this splendid tree belongs to the so-called [i]Salus alba[/i] variety, today’s [i]Salviana[/i], one of the ancient cultivars endemic to Sabina, like Carboncella and Procanica, which evolved through successive hybridisations over the centuries from an ancient ancestor.
The tree’s estimated age is over 2,000 years and, before a cement mixer truck broke off and removed a fifth of its trunk a few decades ago, it measured over 12.50 metres in circumference at its widest point at the base and 8.50 metres at its narrowest point.
[url=http://www.sabinadop.it/olivo-millenario-palombara-sabina.asp]The great olive tree of Palombara[/url]
