Brera Botanical Garden
Walled eighteenth-century botanical garden of medicinal herbs, centuries-old ginkgo trees and elliptical ponds.
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Brera Botanical Garden's paths carry a low, spoken description in three languages, guiding one visitor by ear past fan-shaped leaves and centuries-old ginkgos. The guide traces this walled Milan plot from the Humiliati monks who tended it in the thirteen hundreds, through Jesuit herb gardens, to the eighteenth-century remaking ordered by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. You'll hear how the garden survived the fall of the Jesuits, French occupation and a nineteen thirty-five handover to the University of Milan. Listen for the story behind the newest addition among these ancient trees.
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