Cupramontana: Horto de I Semplici
Duration: 1 hour
Categories:
Educational
Museum
This new botanical garden is located in the former vegetable garden of the 18th-century St. Catherine monastery, with a collection of herbs and medicinal wild native plants for educational purposes.
This botanical garden Horto de i Semplici refers to the medieval city gardens where Semplici was cultivated; simple native wild plants and herbs with medicinal properties.
On a surface of 75 square meters, the more than 100 plants were subdivided into 8 groups according to their medicinal properties: airways, urogenital, digestive, nervous system, skin, heart and blood vessels, purifying, balsamic.
In the middle of the 4 intersecting paths is a pomegranate tree, the tree of life, because already in antiquity the symbol for fertility.
The bench under the rose arch invites every visitor to relax in this beautiful historic place.
Information
Contact
- Horto De i Semplici
Corso Leopardi 59, 60034 Cupramontana (AN) - www.hortodeisemplici.eu
Other
- Open to the public during the opening hours of the MIG | Musei In Grotta.
- free