{"id":59071,"date":"2026-10-13T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&p=59071"},"modified":"2026-10-13T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:18:29","slug":"jardim-botanico-da-ajuda","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/fr\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/jardim-botanico-da-ajuda\/","title":{"rendered":"Jardim Bot\u00e2nico da Ajuda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jardim Bot\u00e2nico da Ajuda, in Lisbon, is the oldest botanical garden of Portugal: a terraced garden of the eighteenth century, laid out beside the royal palace, where the collections of plants from the corners of the Portuguese empire were first studied and kept. Between its box hedges, its fountain and its old trees, the garden is a green room of history in the west of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The garden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The garden was created in the age of the Marquis of Pombal, in the second half of the eighteenth century, to teach botany and to receive the plants that arrived from Brazil, Africa and Asia. Its design in terraces, with the great fountain and the rows of box and myrtle, follows the style of the European botanical gardens of the Enlightenment, and its trees \u2014 some of them among the oldest of Lisbon \u2014 still frame the paths of the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n