A single place, in which you may walk through 5 locations that would otherwise be hundreds of miles apart: a hyper-perfumed Mediterranean scrub, a warm beach, a rocky corner, a quagmire, and finally a desert.
These are the areas of the Naples Botanical Garden, a 12-hectare green lung. The structure commissioned by Giuseppe Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, is now a university research center that includes 9000 plant species, and almost 25000 specimens.
Ferns, pine trees, palm trees and magnolias live leaf to leaf with water lilies, mangroves, and citrus plants. An immense garden from which to head off on a quest to distant and unknown lands…
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