Orto Botanico Città Studi, Botanical garden at Città Studi, Milan, Italy
Orto Botanico Città Studi is a botanical garden in Milan that features research greenhouses and multiple plant collections spread across its grounds. The garden displays carnivorous plants, cacti, and regional species arranged in different sections.
Milan's municipal authority donated the abandoned Cascina Rosa farm to the University of Milan, which built the garden on the disused farmland. It was officially inaugurated on 19 September 2002 as a base for research and teaching. It became the university's third botanical garden, after Brera and the Toscolano-Maderno garden south of Lake Garda.
The garden serves as a learning space where visitors of all ages discover how plants grow and interact with their environment. You can observe how the collections are arranged to tell stories about different ecosystems and plant families.
The garden lies at the end of Via Camillo Golgi 18, in the Città Studi area; the Spanish source also gives Via Carlo Valvassori Peroni. It is open daily, and the grounds hold about 1 km of walking paths past lawns, a lake and labeled plants.
The garden's three high-tech greenhouses, with 10 independent climate and photoperiod compartments, have supported European Union-funded research on rice genetic improvement and useful genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. One greenhouse also holds about 1,500 succulent plants donated by a Milan citizen. In 1948 Vittorio De Sica filmed exteriors for "Miracolo a Milano" in the area around the Cascina Rosa estate.
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