Cologne Botanical Garden

Cologne Botanical Garden

Located near Cologne Zoo, Cologne Botanical Garden is both a city park and a botanical garden, covering an area of 11.5 hectares. Its history dates back to 1863 when the government planned to build a new botanical garden near Cologne Cathedral to replace the old one. The new garden was designed and constructed in 1864.

The Cologne Botanical Garden is a composite of various architectural styles, blending French Baroque, Italian Renaissance, and English natural landscape gardening into an elegant and uniquely beautiful space that delights the eye. This large botanical garden consists of two parts: the Art Nouveau garden added in 1906 and the Flora Garden built in 1987. Currently, the garden is home to over 10,000 species of plants and flowers, distributed across areas such as the rock garden, fern garden, aromatic garden, Mediterranean garden, and herb garden, with more than 2,000 plant species in the rock garden alone. Around 5,000 plant species are displayed in four greenhouses for visitors. The main greenhouse primarily showcases tropical rainforest plants, the smaller greenhouse houses tropical cash crops such as bamboo, cacao trees, coconut palms, coffee, and sugarcane, while the cactus greenhouse features succulent plants and various cacti from deserts and semi-arid regions around the world.

Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln

Must-visit reason: Cologne's most popular botanical attraction

Continent where the attraction is located: Europe【Europe】

Country/Region where the attraction is located: Germany[Germany]

Province/State where the attraction is located: North Rhine-Westphalia [North Rhine-Westphalia]

City where the attraction is located: Cologne [Cologne]