Porto’s Botanical Garden

Together with the Hall of Biodiversity, Porto’s Botanical Garden integrates the second pole of the MHNC-UP.

Spreading across over 4 hectares and with a layout dating from the XIX century, the Museum’s "green lung” contains a variety of gardens and spaces that frame two main buildings that have recently been subject to requalification: Casa Andresen, whose name evokes two important names from the XX century Portuguese literature – Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ruben A., and which currently harbours the Hall of Biodiversity – Ciência Viva Center, a space dedicated to the dissemination of the biological sciences, evolution and biodiversity; and Casa Salabert, which harbours U.Porto’s E-Learning Café – Botânico.

Before one reaches the tall camellia hedges located south in the Garden, it is possible to stroll around a selection of exquisite gardens: the succulent plants garden, the schist garden, the fish garden, the bronze boy garden, and the "J” garden, in honour of its former owners Joana and João Andresen, grandparents of Sophia and Ruben A.