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Watercolour illustration of Cable Car Pine (Pinus halepensis)

Cable Car Pine

Pinus halepensis

Aleppo Pine Upper Rock Nature Reserve

An Aleppo pine beside the upper cable car station, framing the view across the Strait.

Story & Significance

From this pine on a clear day you can see two continents and the meeting of two seas. Pines like it were planted across the Rock in the twentieth century to stabilise slopes and green the limestone; today they are part of the reserve's living skyline.

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Where it stands