The primary by antiquity is the Ficus of piazza Marina, within the Kalsa district, 160 years previous, measuring 30 meters and with a circumference of greater than 20. It’s the largest unique tree in Europe and was declared a monumental tree.
It’s so large that its aerial roots exceed the park’s fence, however to see it nearer, you possibly can enter the Garibaldi Backyard, which was designed by the architect Filippo Basile within the mid-nineteenth century.
The second Ficus is the one positioned in through Emanuele Notarbartolo in entrance of the portal of the previous dwelling of Decide Giovanni Falcone. After his assassination on Could twenty third, 1992, referred to as the Capaci bloodbath, tons of of Palermitans spontaneously got here to his home and started to depart messages, objects, letters underneath the tree, as an indication of mourning and solidarity.
