Orto Botanico di Napoli, Home page

04/10/2022: The website is changing, some links may not work for some time. We apologize to the users.

Notice: The Botanical Garden will be closed on October 31, 2022 due to University closure and November 1, 2022, therefore from Saturday 29 October 2022 we will reopen to the public on Wednesday 2 November 2022.

Access to the Botanical Garden is allowed without reservation
We inform you that the botanical garden is closed Saturdays and Sundays.

For the safety of visitors and staff, in case of rain and wind the garden can close without notice, on days of weather alert it remains closed to the public

The Naples Botanical Garden, Research Centre of the University of Naples Federico II

Outline of the history
The Botanical Garden of Naples was founded at the beginning of the 19th century at a time when this city was dominated by the French. They carried out a plan which had been originally conceived by Ferdinand IV of Borbone and was prevented from being accomplished by a revolution in 1799. read more

Flyer to visit the garden (pdf): Italiano - English - Français - Deutsch


Digital library	Database	Index seminum
Search the exact name of the botanical species of interest using:
Tropicos	uBIO	EOL: Encyclopedia of life
IPNI	The plant list	Catalogue of Life