Civico Orto Botanico
Institution Code: TSM
BGCI Member: No
About the Civico Orto Botanico
The Botanical Gardens are the property of the Municipality
of Trieste and a part of the Civic Scientific Museums. The
layout of the gardens, as depicted in the map, includes various
areas. Associated with the gardens is a natural reserve comprising the Biasoletto wood and the Farneto wood (for a
total of 90 ha).
The Botanical Gardens publishes the Index Seminum,
where each year the species for which seeds are offered are
listed, complete with all of the collection data. The list is sent
to most of the other botanical gardens throughout the world
as part of a free exchange between scientific institutes.
Already a linchpin in the relationship between scientific
research and environmental conservation, botanical gardens
have also become a centre for teaching and
recreation. The aim of the gardens is to satisfy
the needs of both advanced scientific
research and a new environmental
awareness, so as to develop activities of a cultural
nature for an increasingly broader section of the public.
As well as the research and systematic classification performed,
botanical gardens have taken on the role of the conservation,
cultivation and reproduction of officinal plants,
plants for textile production and foodstuffs, local horticultural
varieties, spontaneous and endemic flora of the region and
surrounding areas, aquatic and palustrine plants, succulent
plants. For this reason botanical gardens may be seen as an
island, albeit artificial, of floristic diversity which plays a
strategic part in the conservation of biodiversity, and therefore
in the survival of mankind itself.
When the gardens are integrated into the daily life of the citizens,
as is the case in Trieste, they are no longer a facility for
the exclusive use of botanists, but rather open to a much
broader public intent on enriching its own culture, or perhaps
escaping from a polluted and alienating
urban environment.
Main Address:
Civico Orto Botanico
via dei Tominz 4 (Office)
via Carlo de' Marchesetti 2
Trieste
Friuli Venezia Giulia 34139 Italy
Telephone: +39 040 360 068 -348 639 3055
Fax:
URL: http://www.ortobotanicotrieste.it/
Primary Email: ortobotanico@comune.trieste.it