What is Orto botanico di Pisa?
[[Image:Orto botanico di Pisa - general view.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Orto botanico di Pisa, general view.]] [[Image:Orto botanico di Pisa - school.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Botanical school.]] [[Image:Orto botanico di Pisa - old instiitute.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Old institute building.]] The '''Orto botanico di Pisa''', also known as the '''Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pisa''', is a [[botanical garden]], and the [[University of Pisa]] takes care of it. The garden is at via Luca Ghini 5, [[Pisa]], [[Italy]]. It is open weekday mornings and it does not cost money to see it. The garden was started in 1544 under [[Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Cosimo I de' Medici]] as the first university botanical garden in [[Europe]], and it was put under the care of the famous botanist [[Luca Ghini]] of [[Imola]]. In 1563 the garden was moved from its original place near a river (now the Medicean Arsenal) to one near the convent of Santa Marta. In 1591 the garden was again moved to a third place, where it still is. From these early times, the garden has contained a gallery of natural objects (now Pisa's Museo di Storia Naturale), a library (now part of the university library), and portraits of its directors throughout the centuries. It also includes one of the earliest iron-framed hothouses built in Italy. Today there are different sections in the garden containing the botanical school, gardens, ponds, greenhouses, and various buildings. Major collections include herb gardens and arboreta, as well as the old botany institute, built 1591–1595, with a facade ornamented with sea-shells. ==Related pages== * [[List of botanical gardens in Italy]] * [[List of botanical gardens]] == Other websites == {{commons|Orto botanico di Pisa|Orto botanico di Pisa}} * [http://www.dsb.unipi.it/hbp/ University of Pisa website for the Orto botanico di Pisa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819105239/http://www.dsb.unipi.it/hbp/ |date=2006-08-19 }} [[Category:Buildings and structures in Italy]] [[Category:Botanical gard