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In La Jana, a village in Castellón's Maestrazgo, the Vergé name has been tied to this ground since the fourteenth century, by the family's own account. A century ago, the Vergé great-grandparents owned three separate mills in that same town, each competing against the other two on quality and on yield. José Vergé spent his career directing operations for a German multinational, and only near the end of it, in 2010, did he and his wife, Lola Santos, turn back to the inherited plots and found Oleomile — keeping the family's claim on these trees from ending with him, as the company tells it.
They worked through seven native varieties before keeping five, Farga foremost among them. Farga is the rare one: barely one or two percent of Spain's olive trees, thickest in this pocket of Castellón, on the Sénia territory's edge — Ulldecona alone, just over in Tarragona, catalogues 1,524 millennial Fargas — though Oldfargus carries no guarantee mark of its own. Within their own plots, seventeen Farga trees stood apart, trunk circumferences running 6.5 to over 9 metres, sized enough for the mill to attribute ages of 1,500 to 2,000 years, a figure nobody has run through carbon dating. Those seventeen come off in a single day, just ahead of veraison, then go straight to cold extraction. The oil, Oldfargus 2000, runs to 200 numbered bottles a year at 500ml, priced at €249.60, among the priciest olive oils sold anywhere.
From the public record: oleomile.es · castellonplaza.com
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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