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The Porta i Ferré family has pressed oil at this mill in La Galera since 1884, when the building went up and their great-grandparents worked it with an animal-drawn screw press. Electricity and a hydraulic press followed in the 1920s and 30s, and the last overhaul came in 2003, when the old gearing gave way to a small cold-extraction centrifuge line built for the family's own harvest. The mill is run today by siblings Roser and Joan Lluís Porta i Ferré, who also hold around 150 millennial olive trees near the old Via Augusta on the Arión estate, most of them the Farga variety. In 2006 they began bottling those olives apart from the rest as El Vilar Mil·lenari, Catalonia's first oil from millennial trees, certified as such by an independent auditor under a strict harvest and pressing protocol. One of their trees, La Farga de l'Arión, was declared a monumental specimen by the Catalan government in 1997 and in 2007 was named Spain's best monumental olive tree by AEMO, a jury that included agronomists from the University of Córdoba, who cited its singularity and state of conservation. The Polytechnic University of Madrid's dendrochronologists have attributed its planting to around 314 AD. A visitor route now runs from the Museu Natural d'Oliveres Mil·lenàries de l'Arión, some forty catalogued trees, down to the mill, where a modern cold-press line now does the work earlier generations did by hand and animal.
From the public record: molidelacreu.com · xn--arbolybosquedelao-uxb.es
Where the borders of Valencia, Catalonia and Aragón meet, twenty-seven municipalities keep a shared register of trees old enough to predate the borders themselves.
The Taula del Sénia territory spans fifteen Valencian municipalities, nine Catalan and three Aragonese, from coastal Vinaròs to Beceite and Valderrobres in the Aragonese hills. A tree earns its place on the register once its trunk measures more than 3.50 metres in perimeter at 1.30 metres height. The Mancomunitat Taula del Sénia and Asociación Territorio Sénia have run the count since 2008-09, dated by Professor Antonio Prieto of Madrid's Polytechnic University. The catalogue has grown with every survey: 4,080 trees in the first count, 5,767 kept current, 6,358 in the press consensus now circulating, and claims of over 7,000 at the loosest. FAO named the territory a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System in 2018.
The concentration sits overwhelmingly in a handful of towns. Ulldecona alone holds 1,524 catalogued trees, the largest concentration in any single municipality. Canet lo Roig has catalogued 1,115, more than the 760 people who live there. La Jana counts 966 across roughly fifty trees per square kilometre, the highest density in the territory. Numbers fall away after that: Traiguera 589, Cervera del Maestre 219, down to three specimens at Peñarroya de Tastavins, the highest-altitude trees in the register.
Two groves stand as open-air museums. The Museu Natural de l'Arión in Ulldecona holds thirty-five millennial trees on a hectare beside the Via Augusta, among them La Farga de l'Arión, an 8.03-metre trunk attributed to a planting around 314CE and held to be the oldest attributed tree in Iberia. The Museu Natural del Pou del Mas in la Jana keeps twenty-one trees with free access, including La Farga del Pou del Mas, attributed to roughly 833CE.
The territory has come to dominate AEMO, Spain's annual contest for monumental olive, since Ulldecona's Farga de l'Arión won in 2007. Sénia trees have taken the title again in 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2024 and 2025, eight wins in total, more than any other territory has managed. Traiguera's Olivo de Sinfo, on the Via Augusta itself, added a separate honour in 2019: Recomed's best monumental olive of the Mediterranean.
Fourteen to seventeen producers hold the Farga Milenaria mark, working around 700 monumental trees under rules fixing acidity at or below 0.6, audited by Norma Agrícola in Valencia. A further 349 guarantee-mark trees stand outside the core territory, in Alcora, Amposta, Figueroles, Masdenverge and Sant Mateu.
A lot from the Sénia carries its tree's catalogue number, GPS position and trunk perimeter on the dossier, and, where the miller holds the Farga Milenaria mark, a sworn acidity figure traced to that one still-standing trunk.
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