Botanical garden

One of the most beautiful places in the city and the Botanical Garden. It is the oldest in Europe and was founded in 1543 by Grand Duke Cosimo I de 'Medici, who entrusted its construction to the physician and botanist Luca Ghini, Professor of Botany at the University of Pisa.


The Botanical Garden of Pisa, now consists of nine collections of plants and trees, one of which is formed by trees of historical significance including the two oldest specimens in Pisa, a Magnolia grandiflora L. and a Ginkgo biloba L. planted in 1787.


A small eighteenth century building in the Garden, home to the Botanical Museum, which presents a curious front bezels decorated with shells and colored stones.


The museum consists of a collection of collections including the herbals are of particular importance, ie collections of pressed plants, dry, still on paper and accompanied by information on the plant and the location and the time it was collected.

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