Jardim Botânico de Lisboa
The Jardim Botânico de Lisboa is a working classroom made visible: it was created to support botany teaching and agricultural principles from the period when the Escola Politécnica de Lisboa needed practical study grounds. The site was chosen in 1859 on Monte Olivete, and building began in 1873 under the oversight of Francisco Manuel de Melo Breyner and Andrade Corvo. From 1873, the German landscape gardener Edmund Goeze directed work in the upper garden, planting among other things families of dicotyledons and gymnosperms. In 1876, the French botanist Jules Daveau developed the lower area, shaping the Alameda das Palmeiras and designing a water system for the rills and cascades. The garden opened in 1878, with plants drawn from regions including New Zealand, Australia, China, Japan, and South America. …
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