Oude Hortus
Historic university botanical garden with an ancient ginkgo, old greenhouses and an orangery café.
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This guide to the Oude Hortus in Utrecht follows a garden that began in seventeen twenty-three as an outdoor classroom for the university's medical students, and asks what became of it once the lessons moved elsewhere. Along the way you'll meet an eighteenth-century ginkgo, the professor Johann David Hahn and his orangery, and the families who now come here to sniff, hunt and puzzle. Start by the old trees near the museum before wandering toward the café.
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