Jardim Botânico do Porto | Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da U.Porto

This guide to the Jardim Botanico do Porto explores the estate as it was before it ever opened to the public: a private garden bought in 1895 by a Porto wine merchant's family, whose grandchildren once played among these same camellia hedges. Chief among them was Sophia de Mello Breyner, who grew up to become one of Portugal's most celebrated poets and wrote about the fear of forgetting the rooms and furniture of a childhood home. Stand among the camellias along this path; they're the same ones she once described in her own writing.