Botanica

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The Botanical Garden located in Downtown Noble City is a real gem where people can stroll around, take a seat under the palm trees and enjoy the duckpond.

No matter what season, visitors to Botanica are sure to be captivated yearround by the colors and fragrances from around the world as they follow the many walking paths on the grounds.

Especially youngsters just love to make their rendez-vous at the city botanical gardens whilst the less younger keep an eye on them.

[edit] History

The Botanica is a tribute to Luca Ghini an Italian physician and botanist, notable as the creator of the first recorded herbarium, as well as the first botanical garden in Europe.

Ghini was born in Imola, son of a Civil law notary, and studied medicine at the University of Bologna. By 1527 he was lecturing there on medicinal plants, and eventually became a professor.

He moved to Pisa in 1544, while maintaining his home in Bologna. He created the first herbarium (hortus siccus) in that year, drying plants while pressing them between pieces of paper, then gluing them to cardboard. 1544 also saw the establishment of a garden for live plants, which became known as the Orto botanico di Pisa.

Ghini published no significant botanical work of his own, but was noted as a teacher many of whose students went on to significant careers, including Cesalpino and Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the latter of which he helped by travelling around the Mediterranean and Near East looking for plants that matched the mystifying descriptions of Dioscorides. A Placiti describing Ghini's travels was published posthumously.

[edit] See also

• Downtown

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