Botanical gardens are often seen as green retreats from the busy city life, and that’s more than true. But they are also perfect for relaxing walks in the warm months, offering visitors front seats to the amazing show of spring colors. Find below a list of some of the most beautiful botanical gardens in Romania:
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden in Cluj-Napoca
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One of Romania’s most beautiful cities, Cluj-Napoca, also hosts one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in Romania, named after botanist Alexandru Borza.
Established in 1920 and officially opened to the public in 1925, this garden is not only a tourist destination but also serves as a teaching and research center as part of the Babeș-Bolyai University. It covers 14 hectares and hosts plants from different continents. Around 10,000 specific categories are cultivated here, grouped into several sectors: ornamental, phytogeographic, systematic, economic, greenhouses complex, and the sector destined for persons with sight deficiencies.
In addition to the beautiful flowers in the ornamental sector (such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, dahlias) visitors can also discover plants specific to different local and international geographical regions in specially arranged areas such as the Japanese Garden or the ones dedicated to the Transylvanian plain and plateau, the vegetation of the Carpathians Mountains and the Black Sea coast. Meanwhile, the Greenhouse Complex consists of six sections: the aquarium greenhouse, the palm trees greenhouse, the Mediterranean and Australian plants greenhouse, the succulent plants greenhouse, the Bromeliaceae greenhouse, and the orchids and ferns greenhouse.
The greenhouses are closed the first Monday of every month but visitors can enjoy the garden every day of the week starting 08:00.
How to get there:
The Botanical Garden is located close to the city center, at 42 Republicii street.
Vasile Fati Botanical Garden in Jibou
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Similar to the other botanical gardens, this one is also named after its founder – professor Vasile Fati. It is one of the main tourist attractions of Jibou, a town located at some 88 km from Cluj-Napoca, in Salaj county, offering visitors the chance to relax in a place full of colorful flowers and plants.
The works for the organization of the Vasile Fati Botanical Garden began between 1959 and 1968, when biology teacher Vasile Fati, together with students and other teachers, manages to prove that the park surrounding the Wesselenyi castle, where the high school operated, is suitable for the arrangement of a botanical garden. It currently covers 25 hectares inside the architectural ensemble at the medieval castle that was the residence of the Wesselenyi family.
The Botanical Garden’s collections comprise over 5,000 plant species from various geographical areas of the world. The garden is organized by sectors, with each of them presenting a different collection of plants: there is the greenhouse complex, the micro production and research sector, the ornamental sector, an aquarium complex, a zoo park, and the beautiful Japanese garden. There is also a sector dedicated to roses and an area where the plants from the main mountain groups are presented.
How to get there:
This beautiful garden can be found at 11 Parcului street in Jibou, not far from the town hall.
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