Giardino Botanico Alpino alle Viotte di Monte Bondone, Botanical garden at Monte Bondone, Italy.
The Viote Alpine Botanical Garden covers 10 hectares on the Viote basin of Monte Bondone at 1,540 metres, founded in the 1930s and managed by MUSE. Its oldest core is a large rock garden divided by mountain massif, with sections for aquatic environments, medicinal herbs and nurseries. A small lake has an underwater viewing window over a bed of Groenlandia densa.
The garden was founded in 1938 in the Viote basin, chosen for its mowed meadows, peat bogs and relatively mild climate at 1,540 m. It was damaged during World War II and renewed in 1958. It is now a territorial section of the MUSE science museum in Trento.
The garden maintains an international seed exchange program and produces an annual Delectus seminum, documenting all plant species within its collection.
The garden sits at 1,540 m in the Conca delle Viote on Monte Bondone, southwest of Trento. It is open from June to September, and the rest of the year only for organised groups by reservation. A 1,000-metre nature trail crosses the indigenous vegetation, and a barrier-free sensory path with braille panels lets visitors touch, smell and taste the plants.
The grounds house plants from the highest mountains across the globe, revealing how diverse life can be in extreme elevation zones. This worldwide collection offers a rare chance to compare ecosystems from different mountain ranges in a single location.
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