• Aragon: The millenary holm oak that has won the Tree of the Year contest

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The municipality of Bárcabo, in Huesca, is already claimed as a natural tourist destination and as a unifier of a corridor that links two of the considered most beautiful towns in Spain:

Alquézar and Aínsa.

The

fault

lies with the

oak of Lecina,

the ancient oak that was elected Wednesday

to the European Year Tree.

An award that has changed the lives of the

thirteen inhabitants

of this Aragonese town.

"Without knowing it, La Carrasca has managed to unite us all more, and we have called a meeting for the next few weeks to address a common project," said the mayor of Lecina-Bárcabo, Carmen Lalueza, in a statement.

The now famous tree has won the Tree of the Year contest (where it has competed alongside specimens from thirteen other countries) and has obtained 104,264 supporters, the highest number in the history of the contest.

The process, after the Carrasca was named Tree of the Year in Spain, infected the entire town with enthusiasm, but also the rest of Aragon and many corners of the country.

FIRST SPANISH TREE AWARDED IN EUROPE

It is the first time that a tree in Spain has obtained this European title, which is awarded every year and whose name has been made known from

Brussels

in a virtual act that has been followed from the Plaza de Lecina, with equal parts nerves and emotion, by the neighbors, in a historic day for this town of Alto Aragón.

The millenary Carrasca of Lecina, in Huesca.AYTO.

OF LECINA

Neighbors who, upon hearing the news, exclaimed phrases such as: "Now it is known that

Lecina exists,

including where it is and what humor we do not lack."

Or "as Eurovision seems that we never won it, at least in trees we have given the chest" and that not even in their best dreams they imagined, as they said the affection that has come from so many places.

The nerves of the last weeks, waiting for the verdict, have turned into collective joy.

Hermitage of San Martín de Lecina, on the outskirts of town SHUTTERSTOCK

The socialist MEP Isabel García, who promoted the candidacy, has shared this moment with the neighbors and has assured that "any expectation has been exceeded."

She has also been proud that the Aragonese have managed to "give the contest more visibility this year".

In his opinion, this holm oak "has become an emblem of all the

small towns

that strive to get ahead one day in and another", while "demonstrating that

rural Spain

has a lot to say in the European sphere during the next few years, linked to a

new way of doing tourism

that can revitalize these areas ".

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