Caesars boom Caesar's Tree is a very old tree whose precise
age is unknown but is believed to be over 2000 years in age. The ancient tree
grows in Lo, a town in Lo-Renege, a municipality of the province of
West-Vlaanderen of Belgium. Its species is Taxus baccarat, common name European
Yew. The tree is designated a national monument of Belgium.
According to a long-held local legend, Julius Caesar stopped
at this tree during his military campaign in the area en route to Britannia in
55 BC, tied his horse to it, and took a nap in the shadow of its foliage. According to one source, although the road
passing by the tree might date from the era of Imperial Rome, it is not likely
that Julius Caesar came to this area.
The tree grows beside the last extant
city gate, of four medieval arches built in the 14th century and restored both
in 18Z2 and 1991 at the time the town was less than 400 meters in diameter.
Caesars boom stands adjacent to a house called Het Dumber the Draught-board
House which written sources from 1499 show once housed the oldest of the four
breweries which used to exist in the town of Lo.
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