Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi

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A10, 16156 Genova GE, Italy

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N44° 25' 50" E8° 49' 1"   (44.430555555556, 8.8169444444444) Start navigation »

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The Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi is a small botanical garden located on the grounds of the Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini in Pegli, a suburb of Genoa, Italy. It is a part of the romantic historical park made by Ignazio Pallavicini in 1846.
The garden was established in 1794 by Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi, and donated to the city in 1928. Today is restored and it contains around twenty groups of plants laid on the ground by an educational disposition:

Carnivorous plants
Succulent plants
Tropical plants and orchids
Palms
Ferns
Camellias
Roses
Bamboo
Aquatic plants
Mediterranean plants
Scented plants
Useful plantsThe garden contains a lot of species, some of these rare or unusual.

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