Garden
Botanical Garden and Herbarium
Sixteenth-century botanical garden and herbarium with greenhouses of orchids, succulents, and medicinal plants.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bologna's Botanical Garden and Herbarium centers on Ulisse Aldrovandi, the sixteenth-century nobleman who badgered the city into giving him a scrap of courtyard in 1568 and filled it with roots, leaves and thousands of specimens he refused to leave unlabeled. It follows his obsessive herbarium of pressed plants, the professional dispute that got him suspended from public office in 1575, and the garden's own move across the city to this stretch of Via Irnerio. Look for the medicinal beds along the gravel path as you walk toward the greenhouses.
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