Tropical Botanical Garden

This guide to the Tropical Botanical Garden in Lisbon centers on 1940, when Portugal marked eight hundred years of nationhood with a Portuguese World Exhibition and chose this garden — a living catalog of plants gathered from across its empire since 1906 — for the Colonial Section. It follows what organizers decided to add to that display for the exhibition, and the fourteen stone busts still standing along the paths today. A shaded, little-visited corner of the city worth slowing down in.