Guided tours

Guided tours for individual visitors, families and small groups

General introduction to the Botanical Garden for individual visitors and small groups - limited number of places (advance booking recommended).

English

  • February-March 2023: guided tour at 3pm on Fridays.
  • April-May 2023: guided tour at 5pm on Fridays.
  • June-July-August 2023: guided tour at 5pm on Fridays.
  • September-December 2023: guided tour at 4pm on Fridays.

Special guided tours in English  - included in the admission ticket - are available at 4.30pm during Risvegli festival on 29 April, 30 April, 1 May.

Italian

  • February-March 2023: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays at 11am and 3pm; Tuesday-Friday at 3pm
  • April-May 2023: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays at 11am, 3pm and 5pm; Tuesday-Friday at 5pm; 24 April at 11am, 3pm and 5pm; 25 April at 11am, 11.30am, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm
  • June 2023: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays at 11am, 3pm and 5pm; Tuesday-Friday at 5pm; 12 June at 11am, 3pm and 5pm
  • July-August 2023: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays at 10.30am, 4pm and 5pm; Tuesday-Friday at 5pm
  • September-October 2023: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays at 11am, 3pm and 5pm; Tuesday-Friday at 5pm
  • November-December 2023: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays at 11am, 3pm and 4pm; Tuesday-Friday at 4pm

Special guided tours in Italian - included in the admission ticket - are available during Risvegli festival: please check the dedicated page.

 

Guided tours for schools and groups 

Guided tours for schools and groups (maximum 25 people) last 90 minutes. Advance booking required: +39 049 8273939 - prenotazioni@ortobotanicopd.it 

Available in Italian, English and French. 

Price (in addition to the admission ticket): adults, €80/group; schools and students/staff of the University of Padua, €70/group

The guides show visitors around the Old Garden and the Biodiversity Garden to let them discover the incredible variety and adaptability of plants. The itinerary starts in the Renaissance spaces of the hortus cinctus and then leads through the biomes of the new greenhouses.

 

The following themed tours are also available:

The Old Garden

Seeking out the oldest species in the hortus simplicium, designed for the collection, observation and study of plants since its foundation in 1545, revealing a wide variety of plants (currently over 3,500 species are in place).

The Biodiversity Garden

More than 1,300 plant species in uniform climatic environments in terms of temperature and humidity emulating the conditions of the planet’s biomes in an itinerary that also takes in anthropological items and interactive exhibits.

Plants and Humankind

A journey to discover plants in their daily relationship with humankind: a source of nourishment and cures for sickness, the raw materials for clothes, objects, musical instruments and media for writing.

Plants and the Environment 

A virtual journey from the Equator to the Poles to discover the ecosystems and associated plant species populating them. Biomes in geographically very separate territories in Europe, Asia and America but similar in climatic conditions (temperature, humidity, intensity of light).

 

Information and bookings: prenotazioni@ortobotanicopd.it - ph. +39 049 8273939 (available every day from 9am to 5pm)