After more than three centuries of existence, the old poplar tree of Miraflores died of graphiosis in the 80s of the last century, leaving a big hole in the history of Miraflores and its people.

The rusty figure of its trunk remained as a witness to its physical beauty and spiritual burden, until, since 2017, it has survived in a bronze replica of its remains.

This new myth of the Sierra de Guadarrama allows us to relive so many leisure moments spent by locals and visitors, including philosophers and poets such as Ortega y Gasset or Vicente Aleixandre, Nobel Prize for Poetry.

He witnessed countless gatherings and poems under this tree, to which he dedicated his famous poem "El Álamo", which began with these lines:

"In the centre of the village
was the big tree.
It was a minimal square,
but the very old tree
overflowed it all. "

A place for rest and reverie through this new life of the old poplar.