3 Botanical Gardens to Explore in Lombardy

The Brera Botanical Garden is located in the centre of Milan, adjacent to the south facade of the historic building from which it takes its name. The garden hosts educational and research activities in the fields of science, history, art, and the promotion of cultural heritage, including through projects and collaborations with other institutions and museums. It offers schools a wide range of educational, scientific, and interdisciplinary itineraries.

The Indro Montanelli public gardens are a park in Milan, located in the Porta Venezia area. Inaugurated in 1784 by the Habsburg administration, they were the first Milanese park expressly intended for collective entertainment. For over two centuries they have been called public gardens, gardens of Porta Venezia, Via Palestro gardens or simply the gardens, and use has yet taken root. Since 2002 they have been named after the journalist and essayist Indro Montanelli, who used to spend part of hi

The André Heller botanical garden, also known as the A. Hruska botanical garden, is a botanical garden located on the grounds of the André Heller Foundation above Lake Garda, in via Roma, in Gardone Riviera, in the province of Brescia. It is open every day in the warmer months. The garden was destined to the alpine and tropical flora with two thousand botanical specimens from many places, including the acrocores of Oceania and various plants of the Himalayas, Mato Grosso, Africa, Canada, and Ja