HERITAGE RECORD · 824

Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua

帕多瓦植物园

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central plot, symbolizing the world, surrounded by a ring of water. Other elements were added later, some architectural (ornamental entrances and balustrades) and some practical (pumping installations and greenhouses). It continues to serve its original purpose as a centre for scientific research.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ598892 ↗

Inception1545

Area22000 ha

Administrative areaQ617

WikipediaOrto botanico di Padova ↗

Chinese Wikipedia帕多瓦植物园 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

Cultural archive

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Brief synthesis The world's first university botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545, which makes the Botanical Garden of Padua the oldest surviving example of this type of cultural property.

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