Wellcome to 福 The portal of Hanbury Botanical Gardens has been built at the end of XIX century by the architect Caroe. The Chinese ideogram 福 engraved on the top of the arch, which means “happiness”, it’s a gift from the ambassador in England Kuo Sung Tao, who visited the gardens in 1879. Testo a cura […]
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Hanbury Botanical Gardens
A unique microclimate The Hanbury Botanical Gardens are one of the most important acclimatisation parks in the world.Founded in 1867 by the British philanthropist Sir Thomas Hanbury, they host a huge collection of of plants from all over the world, thanks to the different microclimates of Capo Mortola.Sold in 1960 to the Italian state, the gardens […]
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Capo Mortola
The first beach of the Italian riviera The beach at the bottom of the Hanbury Botanical Gardens, on the Mortola promontory, by the border with France, preserves important Eocene fossils such as corals, molluscs and nummulites. Mortola faces a marine protection area: the seabed is rich in biodiversity where important meadows of Posidonia and the Pinna nobilis stand […]
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