The Plane Tree

The site of Europa and Zeus' first date

This famous plane tree is supposed to be the site where Europa and Zeus first mated after he brought her across the sea in his form of a bull. The attendant at the site is quick with an explanation of why this tree is relatively small, though it is, by traditional accounts, oh three or four thousand years old. "There was a fire two hundred years ago, it burned down to the root. From that root this tree grew."