Orto Botanico di Bergamo "Lorenzo Rota"

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Institution Code: BERG

BGCI Member: Yes

About the Orto Botanico di Bergamo "Lorenzo Rota"

The Botanical Garden is a scientific, cultural, educational, museum of the municipality of Bergamo and approved by Lombardy Region as a museum. The historical upper town section (1972) is organized in different beds devoted to local flora but also to italian and world flora. Since 2015 the Botanical Garden have been a new section in Astino, Valley of biodiversità where grow more than 1.200 horticoltural varieties of edible plants. The Botanical garden has an historical exhibition room (Sala Viscontea) of the fourteenth century, fitting to host different cultural events. The Botanical garden organizes every year temporary exhibitions, educational laboratories, traning courses, conversations and conferences, screenings and all related initiatives at shows, including musical events. The Botanic Gardens of Bergamo form one of the nodes of the Network of Botanic Gardens of Lombardy and a member of the BGCI (Botanic Garden Conservation International).

Main Address:
Orto Botanico di Bergamo "Lorenzo Rota"
Passaggio Torre di Adalberto, 2
Bergamo
Lombardia I - 24129 Italy

Telephone: +39 035 286060
Fax: +39 035 270318
URL: http://www.ortobotanicodibergamo.it
Primary Email: ortobotanico@comune.bg.it

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: Dr. Gabriele Rinaldi
    Curator's Name: Dr. Francesco Zonca
    Plant Records Officer's Name:
  • Total Staff:
    Horticultural Staff Number: 2
    Educational Staff Number: 6
    Research Staff Number: 1
    Administration Staff Number: 1

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: No
    Status: State: No
    Status: Educational: Yes
    Status: Municipal: Yes
  • Date founded: 1972
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area: Yes
  • Landscaped Area: No
  • Latitude: 45.7013
    Longitude: 9.6644
    Annual Rainfall: 1 mm
    Altitude: 400.00 Metres
  • Additional Locations
  • Satellite Garden Names: Valley of Biodiversity Garden Incrocio Via Astino, Via Allegrezza I-24129 BERGAMO
  • Locality: Information
  • Locality: Garden Name: Orto Botanico di Beargamo "Lorenzo Rota"
  • Local Address: Passaggio Torre di Adalberto, 2 I-24129 BERGAMO
  • Locality: City: Bergamo
  • Locality: State: Lombardy

Features and Facilities

  • Herbarium: Yes
    Herbarium: Number of Specimens: 45000
    Arboretum: No
  • Computer Plant Record System: Yes
  • Open to public: Yes
    Friends society: Yes
    Disabled access: No
  • Number of Visitors: 60000
    Number of Volunteers: 70

Plant Collections

  • Cultivation Taxa Num: 1100
  • Special Collections:Peat bog plants, Italian natives, exotic and Mediterranean plants, succulents, aquatics, alpines, vegetables plants, land race,

Conservation Programmes

  • Conservation Programme: Yes
    Ex Situ Conservation Programme: Yes
    Reintroduction Programme: Yes

Research Programmes

  • Biotechnology: No
    Plant Breeding: No
    Conservation - Biology: No
    Conservation - Genetics: No
    Data Management Systems and Information Technology: No
    Ecology: No
    Ecosystem Conservation: No
    Education: Yes
    Ethnobotany: Yes
    Exploration: No
    Floristics: Yes
    Horticulture: Yes
    Invasive Species Biology and Control: No
    Molecular Genetics: No
    Pollination Biology: No
    Restoration Ecology: No
    Seed/Spore Biology: No
    Systematics and Taxonomy: No
    Sustainability: Yes
    Pharmacology: No
    Agriculture: Yes
    Land Restoration: No
    Urban Environments: Yes

Education Programmes

  • Visitor/Education Centre: No
    Education Signs in Garden: No
    Public Lectures/Talks: Yes
    Education Booklets/Leaflets: No
    Guided Tours: Yes
    Permanent Public Displays: Yes
    Special Exhibitions: Yes
    Courses for School Children: Yes
    Courses for University/College Students: Yes
    Courses for General Public: Yes
    Education Programme: Yes