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At the center of the Roman Cagliari, the Botanical Garden is located between the Roman Amphitheater, the villa of the poet Marco Tigellio Ermogene, known as Villa di Tigellio, some university faculties and the San Giovanni di Dio hospital, built in 1844 by Gaetano Top. The Botanical Garden was inaugurated in 1866 under the direction of Prof. Patrizio Gennari. Nowadays, it contains about 2000 plant species, mainly originating from the Mediterranean, but with a good presence of succulents and tropical plants. The garden is divided into three main sections: - Mediterranean plants, which represent the three bands of vegetation in Sardinia as well as species from Australia, California and Chile; - Succulents - about 1,000 units of succulents such as Echinocereus, Euphorbia, Lamphrantus, Mammillaria, Opuntia, etc, grown in greenhouses and outdoors, almost equally divided between species of African and American origins; - Tropical plants. In all, the garden contains about 600 trees and 550 shrubs. Inside the Garden there are important vestiges of the pre-Roman and Roman period: the Roman well, called the libarium, where the actors who performed at the amphitheater drank; the Gennari cave, the Calidarium; the Roman cistern, the last part of the Roman aqueduct that brought water from Villamassargia into the city, is connected to the Church of the Santissima Annunziata. During the Second World War the vegetable garden, which was the seat of a cavalry battalion, was bombed in the first months of 1943. The library and the herbarium were saved, having been prudentially transferred to a deconsecrated church in Ghilarza (OR). Sc: www.cagliariturismo.it
At the center of the Roman Cagliari, the Botanical Garden is located between the Roman Amphitheater, the villa of the poet Marco Tigellio Ermogene, known as Villa di Tigellio, some university faculties and the San Giovanni di Dio hospital, built in 1844 by Gaetano Top. The Botanical Garden was inaugurated in 1866 under the direction of Prof. Patrizio Gennari. Nowadays, it contains about 2000 plant species, mainly originating from the Mediterranean, but with a good presence of succulents and tropical plants. The garden is divided into three main sections: - Mediterranean plants, which represent the three bands of vegetation in Sardinia as well as species from Australia, California and Chile; - Succulents - about 1,000 units of succulents such as Echinocereus, Euphorbia, Lamphrantus, Mammillaria, Opuntia, etc, grown in greenhouses and outdoors, almost equally divided between species of African and American origins; - Tropical plants. In all, the garden contains about 600 trees and 550 shrubs. Inside the Garden there are important vestiges of the pre-Roman and Roman period: the Roman well, called the libarium, where the actors who performed at the amphitheater drank; the Gennari cave, the Calidarium; the Roman cistern, the last part of the Roman aqueduct that brought water from Villamassargia into the city, is connected to the Church of the Santissima Annunziata. During the Second World War the vegetable garden, which was the seat of a cavalry battalion, was bombed in the first months of 1943. The library and the herbarium were saved, having been prudentially transferred to a deconsecrated church in Ghilarza (OR). Sc: www.cagliariturismo.it
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