Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi

Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi

Greenhouses
Type Botanical
Location Pegli (Genoa, Italy)
Opened 1794 (1794)
Owned by Municipality of Genoa
Website www.urbancenter.comune.genova.it/node/1101
Gardens

The Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi is a small botanical garden located on the grounds of the Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini in Pegli, a suburb of Genoa, Italy. It is a part of the romantic historical park made by Ignazio Pallavicini in 1846.

The garden was established in 1794 by Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi, and donated to the city in 1928. Today is restored and it contains around twenty groups of plants laid on the ground by an educational disposition:

The garden contains a lot of species, some of these rare or unusual.

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Coordinates: 44°25′50″N 8°49′01″E / 44.43056°N 8.81694°E / 44.43056; 8.81694


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