Olivier Millénaire de Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

A cluster of tall shoots whose roots are slowly swallowing the stones of the wall it grows on, the olive tree measures 23.5 metres round and 15 metres high. Its rings cannot be read, but from its girth it is estimated at more than 2,000 years old, and it is held to be the oldest tree in France.

Early in the twentieth century the historian and minister Gabriel Hanotaux saved it by buying the land from owners who meant to cut it down. It was named a Remarkable Tree of France on 4 October 2016, and still bears small black olives.

Olivier Millénaire de Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is a sight on Rue Grimaldi in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. The station Direction Marseille is 600 m away (about 9 min on foot).