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Botanic Garden

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Introduction
History
Location

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Whats to See

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Useful information
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Introduction

The Orto botanico di Pisa, also known as the Orto Botanico dell'Universita di Pisa, is a botanical garden operated by the University of Pisa. Plants are studied here for medicinal uses.

History

The garden was established in 1544 under Cosimo I de' Medici as the first university botanical garden in Europe, and entrusted to the famous botanist Luca Ghini of Imola as a University Centre for the study of plantlife. In 1563 the garden was relocated from its original riverside location (now the Medicean Arsenal) to one near the convent of Santa Marta, and in 1591 again moved by the Flemish botanist Giuseppe Casabona to its third and current location.

Botanists and Naturalists of international renown were active at the Botanical Garden of Pisa. Among them were Luca Ghini, Andrea Cesalpino, the famous herbalist Giuseppe Casabona, the seventeenth-century “prefects” (directors) Francesco Malocchi, Domenico Vigna, Pietro Nati and Tommaso Bellucci, Michelangelo and Angelo Attilio Tilli, Giorgio Santi, Gaetano Savi, Teodoro Caruel, Giovanni Arcangeli, Biagio Longo, Ugolino Martelli and Alberto Chiarugi.

Location

To the south of the Campo dei Miracoli, between Via Roma and Via Porta Buozzi. Access is from Via L. Ghini, a street crossing Via Santa Maria.
Address: Via Luca Ghini 5, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
Transit:Bus: 1, 3, 11

Whats to See

From these early times, the garden has contained a gallery of natural objects (the future Pisa's Museo di Storia Naturale), a library (now part of the university library), and portraits of its directors throughout the centuries. It also includes one of the earliest iron-framed hothouses built in Italy.

Today the garden is divided into sections containing the botanical school, gardens, ponds, greenhouses, and various buildings. Inside you can visit its rich collection of local and exotic species cultivated both in the open and in greenhouses. Major collections include herb gardens and arboreta, as well as the old botany institute, In the oldest portion of the gardens stands a Botanical Institute, built 1591-1595 whose posterior facade, is decorated in the style of the “Grotesque” with mosaic motifs in ceramic and shells.

Useful information

Telephone: 050 2215 374.
Email: direzione@dsb.unipi.it
Open: 8:00am to 12:30am and 14:00pm to 17:00pm.
Closed: Sunday.

Links

Offical Website of Pisa

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