Unusual places to visit in Rome

Located in the heart of Trastevere district since 1883, the Botanical Garden is rightly considered a little piece of Heaven in Rome. It covers an area of about 12 hectares, between Via della Lungara and the Colle del Gianicolo. This archaeological area is known as Horti Getae and in ancient times was composed by the baths of Septimius Severus.

The Botanical Garden of Rome is one of the Museums of the Department of Environmental Biology of the Sapienza University of Rome, an authentic concentrate of distant lands: you can go through Japan, Brazil and Australia, until you reach a garden for the blind people, dominated by the aromas.
The main collections of the Botanical Garden are:
The Gimnosperme, the collection occupies mainly the part of the hilly area
The Bambù, this collection is one of the richest in Europe
The Mediterranean Wood is located in the hilly area and represents a testimony of the vegetation that once covered the Colle del Gianicolo
The Palm trees, is a collection of great importance due to the large number of entities that are grown outdoors
The Rose Garden with a significant collection of wild roses present in Italy
The Garden of Aromas is organized in a series of raised flower beds in masonry that welcome species recognizable by tactile characteristics (for example, the pubescence) or olfactory (aroma) and accompanied by Braille tags
The Valletta of Ferns welcomes a collection of herbaceous ferns
The Mediterranean Garden is organized in flower beds, where you can observe typical species of the Mediterranean scrub
The Orto dei Semplici, with medicinal species organized in raised flower beds. Other medicinal species are cultivated in the surrounding area, while others are still present in the adjacent Tropical Greenhouse
Aquatic plants, the aquatic environment in the Museum is represented by the stream, the pond and some tanks
The Monumental Greenhouse has been home to a collection of euphorbias since 1877, and two climbing plants, Quisqualis indica L. and Petrea volubilis L.
The Corsini Greenhouse, built in the nineteenth century, represents the first warm greenhouse built in the garden. It houses a collection of succulents whose families are mostly represented Cactaceae, Agavaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Crassulaceae. There are also two basins that belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden in the period in which she was staying (from 1659 to 1689) at the Villa Riario, now Palazzo Corsini
The Japanese Garden, was built according to a model of oriental garden, is composed of water features, small waterfalls and two ponds
The Tropical Greenhouse, the collection is a small example of the extraordinary plant biodiversity present in tropical forests
Monumental trees, there are several centenary specimens