The palm tree’s fall in Ciutadella was caused by various factors

A review of the Parc de la Ciutadella’s trees has finished without any structural anomaly having been detected; this will enable the park to re-open to the public this Saturday, 29 August, at the usual time.

28/08/2020 16:37 h

Ajuntament de Barcelona

The 2,114 trees, including palm trees, analysed have passed their revision; even so, three trees have been removed as a precaution.

As for the analysis made of the fallen tree, the first preliminary report, as drafted by the company Doctor Arbol’s independent laboratory, suggests that the accident cannot be attributed to a single visible or foreseeable cause, but was in all likelihood the result of a series of factors, which will be determined in the final report and has to do with the presence of a small cavity inside the trunk — a condition classed as minor and which poses no risk to the tree’s general state—, with a sudden change in temperature and a wind travelling at some 40 km per hour, a speed considered not so much strong as unusual for this time of the year.

A second, independent investigation was held at the same time as the private laboratory’s analysis: the Institute of Agro-Food Research and Technology (IRTA) is also carrying out biological tests on the palm tree that fell, to find out its state and the causes for its fall..