The Great Outdoors, local edition

Barcelona is on the coast and we (by the blue arrow) are a thirty-minute train ride away.
Between us is Parc de Collserola, which David cycled through and wrote about earlier.

 It is a little surprising that you can get so close (and see a drone's view here).

Living on the edge of the park means it is easy to go for a hike (walk).
I had seen this tree on a postcard and run past it but it was time to explore a bit.

The tree gets its name from the land, which was owned by a farmer named Xandri. (There are lots of words with an X in them in Catalan.  In Castilian it would usually be CH, like Xile versus Chile.

As the sign in the previous picture says, the tree (Pineus pinea) has become an ecological, cultural, and historic symbol.  It is only about 230 years old and 1,02m in diameter (that's 1.02m in the US, or more likely to be listed 3.346 feet, or 3'4"- let's stick to metric).  My understanding is that it has become a symbol because 

• it was saved from destruction by developers in the 1980's

• it was saved from destruction from vandalism in the 1990's

• it is on the path to the hermitage of Sant Medir (more on that once we have visited)

Unfortunately they looked better than they tasted.

We didn't get much farther and I doubt we'll walk all the way to Barcelona,
but I hope we'll explore the hermitage and other places along the way to the top of the hill.