Brera Botanical Garden

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.