This two-thousand-year-old olive tree ( around 2200 years old) has been classified as a Remarkable Tree of France since January 2016. Located on the road to Menton, near the medieval village.
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In the 1800s, the ungrateful terroir and rudimentary farming techniques allowed only small farms to produce olive oil, wine, lemons, carobs and a very small quantity of wheat, barley and broad beans. The thousand-year-old olive tree also bears witness to the history of this species of fruit tree in the Oleaceae family. In its wild state, the olive tree has been present in many regions of the eastern Mediterranean basin for almost 60,000 years, but its cultivation is much later. The Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans were the first to use olive oil for lighting lamps, body care and food. At the beginning of the 19th century, there were six oil mills in the commune. A blood mill, i.e. one with a mechanism using animal or human power, is mentioned in the village. The use of the toponym Ar Gumb (meaning "olive basin" in Roquebrunois) for a village cul-de-sac, confirms the presence of a storage area for olives prior to crushing.
In the 1800s, the ungrateful terroir and rudimentary farming techniques allowed only small farms to produce olive oil, wine, lemons, carobs and a very small quantity of wheat, barley and broad beans. The thousand-year-old olive tree also bears witness to the history of this species of fruit tree in the Oleaceae family. In its wild state, the olive tree has been present in many regions of the eastern Mediterranean basin for almost 60,000 years, but its cultivation is much later. The...
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