One of them is the Hundred Horse Chestnut located in Sicily. It is believed to be over 3,000 years old. It consists of three large shoots that may have a common root system - if this were the case, it would also be the largest tree in the world.
Legend has it that during the expedition to Mount Etna, Queen Joan of Aragon and all her knights took shelter from the storm under the branches of this tree. Since then, the chestnut tree, also visited by Goethe and many other distinguished people, has been called "the chestnut of a hundred horses."
The second is the Tortworth Great Chestnut, probably the most famous edible chestnut in Britain. Because many of the branches of its huge, twisting main trunk have taken root and started life as solitary trees, it now looks like a small forest.
Another is the Holy Chestnut of Istan in Andalusia. It is probably the oldest tree in the entire Sierra de las Nieves, as it is estimated to be between eight hundred and one thousand years old. Its circumference is approximately 13.5 meters.
