Species: Platanus orientalis
Dimensions: diameter just over 1 m
Age: > 200 years
Protected Monument of Nature (Government Gazette 590/B/1977)
Details: The native range of the species is from Italy eastwards as far as Iran. But it most likely originated east of the Balkans and appears to have arrived in Greece around 1000 BC, where it was able to adapt.
This tree towers over Syntagma Square, which was originally called Platanos Square (“Square of the Plane Tree”). It is said that town elders and chieftains gathered in the shade of the tree to discuss their next moves both prior to and during the Revolution. The Monument to Demetrios Ypsilantis, where his bones are kept, today stands in nearby Plateia Trion Navarchon (“Square of the Three Admirals”), but it had originally been set up below the plane tree in 1843.
The Plane Tree of Nafplio
Species: Platanus orientalis
Dimensions: diameter just over 1 m
Age: > 200 years
Protected Monument of Nature (Government Gazette 590/B/1977)
Details: The native range of the species is from Italy eastwards as far as Iran. But it most likely originated east of the Balkans and appears to have arrived in Greece around 1000 BC, where it was able to adapt.
