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Alpingarten Hirzer - Giardino alpino Punta Cervina
Alpingarten Hirzer (Giardino alpino Punta Cervina) is a free alpine garden opened June 2017 at the Klammeben mountain station (2,000 m) of the Hirzer cable car in Schenna, South Tyrol, near the 2,781 m Hirzer summit.
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
Orto Botanico di Padova, the University of Padua's botanical garden founded in 1545 as a medicinal "garden of simples"; the world's oldest university botanical garden on its original site, UNESCO-listed since 1997.
Botanical garden Carsiana
Giardino Botanico Carsiana, a botanical garden in Sgonico near Trieste, Italy, founded 1964 by Gianfranco Gioitti; 5,000 m2 dolina site with about 600 Karst plant species, region-owned since 2016, managed by Rogos Cooperative.
Botanical Garden of Naples
The Botanical Garden of Naples (Orto Botanico di Napoli) is the University of Naples Federico II's botanical garden, founded in 1807 and covering almost 12 hectares.
Orto Botanico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari
The Orto Botanico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari, formally the Hortus Botanicus Karalitanus, is a botanical garden founded by the University of Cagliari in Cagliari, Sardinia, in 1866.
Orto dei Semplici Elbano
Orto dei Semplici Elbano: botanical garden of about one hectare at the Eremo di Santa Caterina, Rio nell'Elba, Elba; founded 1992 by Corsi, Garbari and Berger, opened 1997; conserves Tuscan Archipelago medicinal and endemic plants.
Orto e Museo Botanico di Pisa
Orto e Museo Botanico di Pisa (Botanic Garden and Museum of the University of Pisa), founded 1543-44 by Luca Ghini under Cosimo I de' Medici; the world's oldest university botanic garden, moved twice, now about two hectares with 3,000 plants and a 350,000-specimen herbarium.
The Botanic Garden of Brera
The Botanic Garden of Brera (Orto Botanico di Brera) is a 0.5-hectare historic botanical garden behind Palazzo Brera in central Milan, founded 1774-1775 under Maria Theresa of Austria, run by the University of Milan, with medicinal plant beds, two elliptical ponds, and two 250-year-old Ginkgo biloba.