Years, decades, centuries passed by the plane tree. Ohrid citizens counted to 800, 900, 1,000, and then stopped. It is older than Noah, were saying with a smile on their face. It welcomes us all, and sending us all on the other world. Indeed. Here, near the Plane Tree was broadcasted the news of the birth of a new son or daughter, and here stopped the funeral processions and citizens were saying goodbye to the man who was going to eternity in front of the tree maybe not as old as eternity, but it symbolizes the eternity for the citizens of Ohrid.
"A man can do everything, the older residents of the city say, but centuries of a tree cannot. Top of tree older than a millennium, can survive only with the will of the Almighty! It is not just a simple child of nature.
However, this tree deeply rooted for centuries in center of the city, according to the legends, was planted by St. Clement, the patron of Ohrid in the 9th century. The tree was planted at the entrance of the city as a port, or a living monument, and anyone who passed the road (Dzadeto) was overwhelmed with a strange, pleasurable feelings. This is written in one of the books of the most famous Ottoman writers of the 7 th century, Evliya Celebija. With its opened stem the tree Platanus orientalis, was "the fountain of life", of Ohrid. The people who were part of or who wanted to be on the city's social peak, the elite of Ohrid, always passed by and were sitting on this place near the Plane Tree in the shade of its thick stem. The guild always gathered around the Plane Tree, Celebija wrote: But the city "guild", was only one part of the faithful visitors of the Plane Tree.
Here, under the Plane tree, at the entrance of the market, according to the stories, was offered workforce. Day labourers waited for, "the chief employer" to be hired for this or that, right under that plane. Here they made contracts and agreements, talked about their hopes and shared what they earned.