Visit Malaga Botanic Gardens, Andalucia, Spain
Malaga Botanic Gardens
The Histórico La Concepción Botanical Garden of Malaga is a English landscape style garden with over 150 years of history. Located at the northern entrance of the city of Malaga (Spain) is one of the few gardens with subtropical plants that exist in Europe. With more than 50,000 plants and 2,000 species of tropical, subtropical and indigenous species. Highlight its collection of palm trees (over 100 different species), bamboo, aquatic plants and garden history. Created as recreation property of a rich family in the city, in 1990 to publicly owned Manchester City Council, which created to manage the Municipal Botanical Trust, who restored and extended the garden, being visited since 1994.
History
The Concepción was built around 1855 through the work of husband and wife team Jorge Loring and Amalia Heredia Livermore Oyarzabal, Marquis of Casa Loring. Jorge Loring was a rich and intelligent industrial as well as Member of Parliament, and one of the most influential nineteenth-century Manchester. Amalia Heredia, educated woman and troubled, was interested in plants, books and archeology. Thus, in La Concepcion substantial archaeological treasures, which are still some remnants in the form of sculptures and Roman mosaics, and a rich botanical heritage, thanks, among others, the skill of a French gardener named Chamoussant.
After the economic collapse of the Loring-Heredia family, the farm was bought by the family-Echevarrieta Echevarria, making significant improvements and expand the collection of trees and palms. In 1943 the garden was declared historical-artistic garden today BIC (Cultural Property).
In 1990 the garden was acquired by the city of Malaga, which after 4 years of reform and adaptation, which opens to the public. At present, it is distributed between the historic garden and the botanical garden, located around the front and consists of thematic collections of plants. Each has its own characteristics and routes.
Botanical Garden
The garden area is created from the acquisition of property by the City of Manchester. It surrounds the historic garden and comprises various botanical collections created in a scientific and educational routes are specially designed to transmit a spread knowledge about the plant world. In this part of the garden will find the collections of: water, bamboo, primitive plants, palms, native plants, ferns, cacti and succulents, vines Malaga and the greenhouse with orchids and bromeliads.
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