Botanical Gardens
WHS that contain a botanical garden: a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Amsterdam Canal Ring | Hortus Botanicus is within the inscribed area, it's one of the oldest in the world (1638) | |
| Ancient Nara | At Kasuga Taisha: a Japanese form of botanical garden that contains every form of plant mentioned in the Man'yōshū poetry anthology | |
| Angra do Heroismo | Duke of Terceira Garden | |
| Aranjuez | In 1555, Philip II requested the creation of a botanical garden on his grounds. It succesfully received and cultivated flora from America and Asia (nom fil) | |
| Bordeaux | Part of the Jardin Public | |
| Botanical Garden, Padua | ||
| Campeche | Santiago: Used as the Botanical Garden 'Xmuch?halt?n'. Reconstructed | |
| Cape Floral Region | Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (only Botanic Garden in the world which is included within a natural World Heritage site) | |
| Central University City Campus of the UNAM | Jardin Botanico Faustino Miranda. Belonging to the Institute of Biology. Situated south of the Olympic Stadium in the "Ecological Zone". | |
| Cilento and Vallo di Diano | Bellosguardo | |
| City of Bath | In Royal Victoria Park | |
| Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas | The Caracas Botanical Gardens are part of the University and the inscribed site | |
| Classical Gardens of Suzhou | Wangshi Garden (The Master-of-the-Nets) - It is one of the rare and unique botanical gardens of its type that remains. | |
| Coffee Cultural Landscape | "Marsella is a colonial town is famous for its botanic garden Jardin Bontanico Marsella Alejandro Hombolt which was set up to promote ecological sustainability in the area (...)." (Wikipedia) | |
| Dubrovnik | On Island of Lokrum. Founded in 1959 but developed out of the tradition for growing imported plants on the island brought in first by the Benedictines and then, from 1859, by Maximilian of Hapsburg for his mansion there. | |
| Dutch Water Defence Lines | Botanische Tuin Fort Hoofddijk (Utrecht University Botanic Gardens, 1964) | |
| Ferrara | University of Ferrara Botanic Garden | |
| First Coffee Plantations | At San Juan de Escocia | |
| Florence | Orto Botanico di Firenze (1545) | |
| Fray Bentos | at the Casa Grande | |
| Ischigualasto / Talampaya | Talampaya: A botanical garden of the local flora at the narrow point of the canyon (wiki) | |
| Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba | The university buildings surround an open space which historically served as a botanical garden | |
| Kew Gardens | ||
| Kinabalu Park | "Formerly known as Mountain Garden, the Botanical Garden serves as a refuge for threatened species where the plants produced in the garden will eventually be returned to their natural habitat. As of 2005, not less than 3,200 plant specimens comprising of 400 species grow in the garden. Botanical Garden plays an important role as a nature education center for the public by bringing the plants to the visitors rather than bringing the visitors to the plants in locations that are often inaccessible. More importantly, it ensures that the natural habitat of the plants remains undisturbed." | |
| Lushan National Park | Lushan Botanical Garden | |
| Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha | Rare Botanical Garden | |
| Naples | Orto botanico di Napoli | |
| Nice | Antoine Risso, famous naturalist and botanist, transformed the Colline du Château, dotted with ruins, into a botanical garden that also served as a park intended for the pleasure of the first tourists. (Nomination file, p. 61) | |
| Oaxaca and Monte Alban | Jardin Etnobotanico de Oaxaca | |
| Palmeral of Elche | Huerto del Cura | |
| Pannonhalma | Arboretum | |
| Paris, Banks of the Seine | Jardin des plantes de Paris | |
| Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro | the Real Jardín Botánico | |
| Potsdam | Palmenhaus on the Pfaueninsel | |
| Prague | Pruhonice Park | |
| Quebrada de Humahuaca | Near the Pucara is the Botanic Garden of Heights displaying local Andean vegetation | |
| Rabat | Jardin d'Essais - used for scientific purposes (for the acclimatisation of new species of plant to the climate of coastal Morocco) (AB ev) | |
| Rio de Janeiro | include the Botanical Gardens, established in 1808 | |
| Salzburg | The Old Botanical Gardens at the site of today′s Furtwänglerpark | |
| Schönbrunn | ||
| Siena | This Botanical Garden, Orto Botanico, was founded in 1784 by Biagio Bartalini. | |
| Singapore Botanic Gardens | ||
| Solovetsky Islands | "The Makaryev monastery was converted to a botanical garden supplying hothouse fruits to Russian cities." (AB). This took place in 1882 at the Makarievskaya pustyn (Makaryev Hermitage) situated 4kms N of the Solovetsky Kremlin. Both outdoor and indoor cultivation takes place, making use of the micro-climate of a sheltered valley as well as hot water pipes. They are now known as Solovki or Khutor Gorka Botanical Gardens and are "famed" for the very wide temperature range 31/-35 C in which they operate. See | |
| Sítio Roberto Burle Marx | By the end of the 1960s, the nominated property housed the most representative collection of Brazilian plants, as well as rare species from the tropics in general. The collection of living plants became one of the most important in the world (AB ev) | |
| Teide National Park | At El Portillo | |
| University of Coimbra | University Botanical Garden | |
| Urbino | "The Orto Botanico "Pierina Scaramella" (2,200 m2), also known as the Orto Botanico dell'Università di Urbino, is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Urbino, and located at via Bramante, 28". | |
| Vienna | Botanischer Garten, Universitat Wien | |
| Visby | Visby's Botanical Garden is within the city wall area, the inscribed zone. | |
| West Lake | Hangzhou Botanical Garden |
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