The Spanish City Council of Moguer felled the Fuentepiña pine, under which the donkey Platero was buriedaccording to the writer Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1956) and author of the famous poem «Platero and I.»
The tree was cut down when the attempt to save it failed after being damaged in 2025 by a tornado at the summer estate of the Spanish poet, among the most important of the 20th century.
The pine of 200 yearsabout 19.50 meters high y 3.80 meters perimeterpresented «a state of deterioration that has prevented its conservation,» the council reported on social networks.
The fallen pine tree after being struck by lightning (Instagram). He recalled that it was felled by a tornado last March and cut off from the roots; since then work had been done to recover it.
After analyzing the condition, it was decided, in order not to lose it, to cover the roots with humus and natural substrate from the environment, in addition to cleaning up the crown by closing many of the branches that were open.
The operations had no effect, so the felling has been carried out with «with the utmost respect for its historical, cultural and symbolic value.»
Will continue to live symbolically
However, this will not mean the definitive death of the tree, as it will continue to live symbolically subject to a varnish and diesel treatment. The cut-down parts will be assembled into a metal profile so that it lasts in spaces linked to the memory of the Nobel Prize.
«In this way, the tree that accompanied Juan Ramón Jiménez in his summer refuge will continue to be present in the collective memory,» argued the city council.
Published in 1914, the work poetically recreates the life of the donkey Platero, an inseparable friend of Jiménez’s childhood and youth, born in Moguer in 1881.
Workers cutting down the pine (EFE).The description in the first paragraph is very famous: «Platero is small, hairy, soft; so soft on the outside that it seems like he was made of cotton, and he has no bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black glass beetles.»
EFE Agency.
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