General visit: History and botany

Name: General visit: History and botany
Start: 2024-05-31T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-31T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardin des plantes

The Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier, the oldest in France, has been a place dedicated to teaching, mainly for students in medicine and pharmacy, as well as to the University of Montpellier, France,

Friday 31 May, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Maximum 20 people. Duration of the visit: between 45min and 1h.

©Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier

The Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier, the oldest in France, has been a place dedicated to teaching, mainly for medical and pharmacy students, as well as research since its creation. It is now more widely open to the general public and pedagogy.
Come and discover its history and the richness of its collections with in particular its school of systematics.

About the location

Jardin des plantes

12 Bd Henri IV, 34000 Montpellier, France

Hérault
Occitanie

The Jardin des plantes of Montpellier is the most old(former) royal garden to have reached us. Created under Henry IV (1593) by Richer de Belleval, doctor and outstanding botanist, he served as model in all botanical gardens of France. Boissier of Wild builds the first conservatories and Broussonnet there create one there orangery in 1804\. Besides its initial, scientific and pedagogic vocation, and its patrimonial dimension(size), this garden presents more than 2 000 open-air plant, cultivated sorts(species) on 4,6 hectares, and 600 m ² in conservatory today. Collection of cystes, curative, naturalized, succulent, trees remarkable for their size or for their curiosity and their botanical interest. Entomological faun(fauna,crowd).
Open all year long.