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Le Tille de Bracon
The Tille de Bracon, also called the Grange-Sauvaget linden, stands in the Jura, between Ivory and Bracon, at the place called La Grange Sauvaget. According to tradition, it was planted in 1477 on the order of Charles the Bold, to celebrate the marriage of his daughter Mary of Burgundy to Maximilian of Austria.
The tree is reputed to be one of the oldest lindens in France. Its trunk is about 17 to 18 metres in circumference according to measurements, and it rises some 25 metres high. For those travelling through this middle-mountain region, it is a simple walking goal: you come to measure with a few people, arms outstretched, the size of this massive trunk. At Fontaine, in the Territoire de Belfort, another linden is also said to go back to the thirteenth century.
