"The Botanical Garden of Padua, 1545-1995" MINELLI, Alessandro [edited by]

MINELLI, Alessandro [edited by]]

[311] pp.

Marsilio Editori

1995

11 3/4" x 8 3/4"

Founded in 1545, the University of Padua Botanical Garden is the oldest in the world to have maintained its original location and architectural layout. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. Green heart of Padua city centre, it is host to more than 6,000 specimens and 3,500 species on a total area of 3.5 hectares. In the old Garden, characterised by a charming circular structure enclosed within walls, there are medicinal, insectivores, poisonous, succulents, aquatic, and ornamental plants, as well as historical plants such as “Goethe’s Palm” (1585).