Bucharest Botanical Garden
Bucharest Botanical Garden | |
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Grădina Botanică "Dimitrie Brândză" a Universității din București | |
Type | botanical garden |
Location | Bucharest, Romania |
Coordinates | 44°26′16.44″N 26°3′49.13″E / 44.4379000°N 26.0636472°E |
Area | 18.2 hectares (45.0 acres) |
Elevation | 73 to 87 metres (240 to 285 ft) |
Established | 1860 |
Founder | Carol Davila |
Designer | Dimitrie Brândză Louis Fuchs |
Administered by | University of Bucharest |
Status | Open all year |
Plants | 10,000 |
Public transit access | Grozăvești metro station |
Website | gradina-botanica |
The Bucharest Botanical Garden (Romanian: Grădina Botanică din București), now named after its founder, Dimitrie Brândză, is located in the Cotroceni neighbourhood of Bucharest, Romania. It has a surface of 18.2 hectares (45.0 acres),[1] including 4,000 square metres (1 acre) of greenhouses, and has more than 10,000 species of plants.
The first
In the Garden there is a Botanical Museum in a building of the
The Old Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden was built between 1889 and 1891, along the lines of the Greenhouses of Liège, Belgium.[2] In 1976 it was closed to the public, continuing to house only crop plants.[2] The Pavilion was rehabilitated in 2011, being arranged as a tropical forest corner and containing species of several exotic plant families.[2]
Gallery
References
- ^ a b "Grădina Botanică – Istoric". gradina-botanica.unibuc.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
- ^ Evenimentul zilei(in Romanian).
External links
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