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Parks and botanic gardens in Berlin
Parks and Botanic Garden in Berlin consists of buildings & glass-houses which features a collection of orchids, carnivorous plants & more.
The Botanical Garden
Parks and Botanic Garden
The Botanical Garden of Berlin, known in Germany since the 17th century. This is one of the three most important botanical gardens in the world. It invites its guests to get acquainted with thousands of various plants and interesting facts about them, walk through the picturesque meadows and greenhouses and enjoy the charming panoramas.
The history of the garden begins in 1679, when an agricultural garden with apothecary gardens was planted in Schöneberg. Then it was called Kurfürstengarten. It became the basis of the future botanical garden, founded at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Today, on the territory of 430 thousand square meters. m grows more than 22 thousand representatives of the flora. Unusual impressions from visiting this institution are guaranteed not only for gardeners and botany lovers, but also for ordinary tourists.
The 28 m high tropical greenhouse is very attractive, giving an idea of the richness of the tropical flora of the Old and New Worlds.
Next to it is another tropical hall with food crops and many birds. The orchid hall displays more than 1,000 types of flowers, including wild ones. Nearby are the humid fern room and the bromeliad plant room with artificial fog.
The collection also includes succulents, 4-meter cactus, carnivorous plants, camellias. Separate zones are reserved for the cultures of Australia, New Zealand, the Canary Islands, Namibia, and Angola. There is even a rock garden with rocky gardens telling about the flora of the Carpathians, the Caucasus Mountains, the Alps, etc.
Tiergarten
Hidden between a large city park and the famous Berlin Zoo, the Tiergarten with its winding paths and wooded alleys has long been a favorite place for recreation and entertainment for tired city dwellers and a favorite attraction for numerous tourists.
With its provocative works of art and monuments, the Tiergarten is essentially the center of informal Berlin. The huge park of the Great Tiergarten, flea markets and cafes on the lake, as well as lawns, ponds, streams, walking paths and park sculpture – what is not a “medicine” prescribed for the crazy rhythm of life?
The Tiergarten park, which occupies no less than 200 hectares, was laid out as a hunting ground in the 16th century, and in the 19th it was converted from a place for royal hunting into an English-style landscape park. Since then, the Tiergarten park has been called the “green island in the middle of Berlin.”
Treptow park
Parks and Botanic Garden
Among all the green areas of Berlin, Treptow Park occupies a special place. This is the largest monument to soldiers who died during the Second World War, located outside the former USSR.
Parks and Botanic Garden is located on the banks of the river Spree. Initially, it was planned as a recreation area – the project assumed the presence of sports grounds, fountains, ponds and a rose garden. And after the war, a memorial to Soviet soldiers-liberators was opened on the territory of Treptow Park. At the same time, the entire park complex was transferred to the possession of the city authorities.
The monument is conditionally divided into 5 components: the sculpture “Grieving Mother”, which opens the complex, an alley of birches, a symbolic gate made of bowed banners, an alley of sarcophagi and the main part of the complex – an 8-meter statue of a warrior-liberator. At the base of the sculpture is a memorial room. A tome containing the names of all the soldiers buried in the mass graves of the park is kept here.
This is a children’s playground with water attractions and the astronomical observatory Archenhold, where the longest telescope in the world is exhibited. The observatory is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 14:00 to 16:30; You can visit the Astronomical Museum on your own absolutely free of charge. The park is decorated with fountains, a sunflower garden and a large rose garden. A boat station offers park guests walks along the Spree.