Den Botaniek
Walled former hospital herb garden with a glasshouse, pond, and some two thousand labelled plants.
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This guide to Den Botaniek, the small botanical garden on Antwerp's Leopoldstraat, follows the plot as a place of appetite across five centuries. It starts with a pastry chef and the little eighteen-seventies house at the garden's edge, then reaches back to a hospital's herb and vegetable beds and a sixteenth-century apothecary who grew remedies for his shop. Best heard standing by the marble statue among the planted beds.
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