Saturday 23 January 2010

Spanish Histree in Ibiza

What's the connection between this Araucaria, or Monkey Puzzle Tree which I can see every day from our kitchen window, and Spanish political history?????





Well, it's almost 80 years old and was planted on 14th April 1931, the day the Second Republic was proclaimed


“The Second Spanish Republic was the system of government in Spain between April 14, 1931, when King Alfonso XIII left the country following local and municipal elections in which republican candidates won the majority of votes in urban areas and April 1, 1939, when the last of the Republican (republicanas) forces surrendered to Nationalist (nacionalistas) forces led by Francisco Franco, at the end of the Spanish Civil War.” - Wikipedia

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