Spain: From the Time of the Romans, an Ancient Olive Tree Bears Fruit

This "millenary" Hojiblanco tree, said to be 1,800 years old, is the jewel in the grove of other ancient olive trees belonging to Aceites Vizcantar in Priego de Cordoba in Andalusia.
I dreamed I was walking in a grove of ancient olive trees.
Like petrified giants, they stood rooted deep in the soil. Their gnarled trunks seemed made of stone, grey bark riddled with crevices. Only the silvery leaves sprouting from twisted branches fluttered in a sudden breeze.
If those trees could talk, what tales they would tell. Of Romans and Moors who swept across these hills centuries ago, leaving aqueducts and watch towers behind. And of a little boy who played happily among the rabbits and birds, plucking wild asparagus, hiding in a hollow of a tree older than he could count.
But wait. Is this a dream?
No, I’m awake—and I’ve seen that very grove.
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