Fundação de Serralves Garden
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N 41° 09.596 W 008° 39.593
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A great garden in the middle of a chaotic city where you can relax and learn botanics.
Waymark Code: WM83TC
Location: Porto, Portugal
Date Posted: 01/22/2010
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Serralves is a unique reference in Portugal, summarizing and symbolizing a processing conditions for a cultural context: Portugal and the The Serralves Park, open to the public in 1987, after preparation and recovery, the subject of a started in 2001 and completed in which constitutes a significant contribution to education and awareness of society to safeguard the heritage of landscape well as the need to reconcile the space asset demonstrations and cultural processes determined by contemporary, without compromising the integrity and permanence. Particularly worthy of the two awards already granted to the Park ofof1996) and "Henry Ford Prize1997).
One of the qualities Serralves Park is the diversity of its heritage trees and shrubs composed of native vegetation and exotic, which includes about 4000 specimens of woody plants, representing approximately 200 species and varieties.
The native vegetation includes some rare species such as yew, tree at risk of extinction in Portugal, and other representative of the Pine, the well as other species of Oak Shrubs stand out from the Hawthorn, the With regard to the exotic flora may be Giant sequoias of California, liquid ambars, Chestnut-chestnut, among other trees, and
This heritage has been the subject of a geo-survey, conducted with the University of Aveiro / UNAVE, what your presentation soused for scientific purposes and Users have access to the identification and description of specimen, their characteristics, applications and uses.
This database is managed by the team of Park, and used in its and also includes a classic Herbarium on deposit in Aveiro, representative of the species present in the Park whose reproduction and inclusion in the database ensures your query fingerprints.
Cost of entry: 3.00 (listed in local currency)
Hours of Operation: Mon-Fri: From: 10:00 AM To: 5:00 PM
Hours of Operation: Sat, Sun: From: 10:00 AM To: 7:00 PM
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