Botanical garden

Botanical gardens (in Latin hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants both for scientific purposes and for the enjoyment and education of visitors.

History

The first modern botanical gardens were founded in Northern Italy in connection with universities:

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• Padua (1543 or 1544)
• Pisa (1543) by Luca Ghini (1490-1556)
• Bologna (1567)

Other European towns followed suit:

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• Leiden, Netherlands (1590)
• Montpellier, France (1593)
• Heidelberg, Germany (1597)
• Tübingen, Germany by Leonhart Fuchs
• Copenhagen, Denmark (1600)
• Uppsala, Sweden (1655)
• Hannover, Germany (1666)