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Botanical Garden Balcik
Bulgaria - Sofia
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About the Botanical Garden Balcik
The chief attraction in Balcik is the wonderful Botanical Garden. Its ten hectares surround the small summer palace of the Romanian Queen Marie. (The area was part of Romania between 1913 and 1940). The attractive villa has the unusual addition of a minaret. The gardens are set on a steep hillside, and descend in six terraces to the sea - supposedly one for each of the Queen's children. There are over three thousand varieties of shrubs, roses and flowers, set among streams, waterfalls, and ornamental channels. There is a rock garden, a formal French one with clipped box cones and geometric beds, and an astonishing collection of cacti. Interspersed are stone thrones, seats, pillars and ornaments collected by the Queen.
The Botanical garden forms part of the teaching facilities of the University of Sofia.
Main Address:
Botanical Garden Balcik
P.O. Box 834
1000 SOFIA
Sofia
Bulgaria
Telephone Number: 0359 579 72 058
Fax Number: 0359 579 76 338
Web Site: http://www.uni-sofia.bg/resources/botan/index.html
Institution Email Address: ubg_balchik@yahoo.com
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- Staff Details
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Director: Dr. Krasimir Kosev
Curator:
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- About this Garden
- Institution Type: Botanic Garden
- Physical Data
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Latitude: 42.7105
Longitude: 23.3238
Altitude: 0.00 metres
- Features and Facilities
- Plant Collections
- Special Collections:There are more than 3000 plant species from all over the world grown in the Botanical garden, including many white poplars - some over 300 years old - and about 1000 cacti. The collection of large sized cacti species grown in an open area is one of the biggest attractions. It is the second one of its kind in Europe after Monaco, Monte Carlo. Some 450 botanical gardens worldwide contributed to the collection. In the garden you can see some exotic plants such as: a candy tree, a paper tree, an ancient Ginkgo biloba, the resurrected Metasequoia glyptostroboides, sand lily, olives and many others. They belong to 35 families and 800 genera demonstrating an incredible diversity of varieties and forms.
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