University Botanical Garden
Oldest botanical garden in the country, with tropical glasshouses, a rosarium and a royal oak.
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This guide to the University Botanical Garden in Sofia opens at the ceremony that launched Bulgaria's oldest botanical garden, as the country's ruler plants a young oak. It follows Stefan Georgiev, the first Bulgarian professor of botany, who founded the garden for Sofia University in 1892, and asks what a brand-new science needed in order to take root. Best heard standing in the shade of the old English oak.
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