Copenhagen Botanical Garden

Copenhagen Botanical Garden is located in the heart of the Danish capital. It was founded in 1600 by decree of King Christian IV, but was located just north, and was moved to its present location in 1870. The botanical garden is part of the Danish Museum of Natural History, which uses it not only as a place of recreation, but also as a research site.

The Royal Botanical Garden was created to preserve a collection of Danish medicinal plants that were threatened with destruction after the closure of most monasteries and their gardens during the Reformation. The park was looked after by a professor at the University of Copenhagen who lived in a small house in the park. The expansion of the park was undertaken by Ole Worm, who prescribed rare Danish plants from all over the country. Foreign colleagues sent rare species from abroad. In the western part of the garden, greenhouses and a greenhouse complex of more than 200 square meters were laid out. One of the greenhouses was built on the model of the Crystal Palace from the World Exhibition of 1851 in London.

In total, there are more than 13 thousand species of plants in the botanical garden. They are divided into several zones: Danish plants, perennial and annual plants and plants from the mountainous regions of Central and Southern Europe. The oldest tree in the garden is the Taxodium, which was planted in 1806.