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Botanical gardens in Iberia

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Ajuda Botanical Garden

Jardim Botânico da Ajuda (Ajuda Botanical Garden), Lisbon; founded 1768 as Real Jardim Botânico da Ajuda, Portugal's first botanical garden and 15th in Europe, designed by Domingos Vandelli, now run by the Instituto Superior de Agronomia.

Botanic Garden of University of Valencia

Botanic Garden of the University of Valencia (Jardí Botànic de la Universitat de València), founded 1567 as a medicinal-plant garden, moved to the Huerto de Tramoyeres in 1802; about 4,500 species, 1862 iron greenhouse, BIC since 2006.

Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra

Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra (JBUC): university botanical garden founded 1772 by the Marquis of Pombal, about 13 ha with formal terraces and wooded mata, part of the 2013 UNESCO World Heritage inscription.

Botanical Garden of the University of Malaga

The Botanical Garden of the University of Malaga (Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Málaga) is a university botanical garden on the Teatinos campus, inaugurated in 2005 and holding over 1,000 plants.

Jardí Botànic Històric

Jardí Botànic Històric (Historic Botanical Garden of Barcelona), created 1930 by Pius Font i Quer in the Foixarda quarry on Montjuïc, inaugurated 1941, closed 1986, reopened 2003; free entry, cool quarry microclimate, Barcelona's tallest trees.

Jardí Botànic Marimurtra (southern europe, r8287022)

Jardí Botànic Marimurtra, also Mar i Murtra, is a botanical garden in Blanes, Costa Brava, Catalonia, founded in 1921 by Carl Faust; record 235,395 visitors in 2025, centenary year, with palms, cacti and Mediterranean collections.

Jardí botànic Pinya de Rosa

Jardí botànic Pinya de Rosa (Jardí d'Aclimatació Pinya de Rosa) is a cactus and succulent garden in Blanes, Catalonia, Spain, created by Ferran Rivière and completed in 1952.

Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Granada

Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Granada: small historic university botanical garden in central Granada, Spain, founded 1850 under Mariano del Amo y Mora on the former Jesuit Colegio de San Pablo orchard; preserves a 14-bed Jussieu Escuela Botánica, a Ginkgo biloba of 1889, and about 150 species.

La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens

La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens (Jardín Botánico-Histórico La Concepción), a subtropical garden in Málaga, Spain, created 1855 by the Marquises of Casa Loring, city-owned since 1990, with 50,000+ plants of 3,000+ species.

Madeira Botanical Garden Engineer Rui Vieira

Madeira Botanical Garden – Eng. Rui Vieira (Jardim Botânico da Madeira), public botanical garden in Funchal created 30 April 1960, named for first director Rui Manuel da Silva Vieira; 8 ha, over 2,000 exotic plants, endemic-species conservation.

Mata-Jardim José do Canto

Mata-Jardim José do Canto is a landscaped woodland garden on Lagoa das Furnas, São Miguel, Azores, created by José do Canto (1820–1898) with species acclimated at his Ponta Delgada garden; it includes the Ermida de Nossa Senhora das Vitórias.

Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

The Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a 12-hectare botanical garden in the Canary Islands specializing in palms, built on a former rubbish dump.

Quinta do Lomelino - Natural Garden

Quinta do Lomelino - Natural Garden is a botanical garden in Feteira, Faial, Azores, with over 600 subtropical and tropical plants, grown from a decades-old palm and exotic tree plantation on the Horta-airport road.

Ramón Rubial lorategi botanikoa

Ramón Rubial lorategi botanikoa (Jardín Botánico Ramón Rubial) is a 60,000 m2 botanical garden in central Barakaldo, Bizkaia, designed by Ángel de Diego Rica, opened in 2002, with over 300 woody species, a Natur Gela visitor center, and a hedge maze.

Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid

Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid: Spain's royal botanical garden and CSIC research institute, founded 1755 by Fernando VI, moved to the Paseo del Prado in 1781, with over one million herbarium sheets and the Mutis expedition collections.

Xardín Botánico de Lourizán

Xardín Botánico de Lourizán (Botanical Garden of Lourizán), a 52-hectare botanical garden and arboretum in Pontevedra, Galicia, founded 1949 within the Lourizán Forest Research Center, holding over 850 taxa and notable trees listed in the Catálogo Galego de Árbores Senlleiras.