The Botanical Garden is located on the Cagliari Viale Sant Ignazio da Laconi and is run by a local university. The first "precursor" of the current garden was created in the city between 1752 m and 1769-th years in the district of Campo de Su Su Fe, and the modern garden was inaugurated in 1866 by Professor Patrizio Gennari. The project of the garden worked Giovanni Meloni Baylle, which for this purpose has acquired a plot of land in Valle di Palabanda. Under his leadership over the past two years we were working on alignment and arrangement of the site, abandoned and destined for landfill.

In 1885 was published the first list of plants of the botanical garden, and by 1901, the ninth year it grows for about 430 plants from India, America, Africa, Madagascar, the Atlantic Islands, China, Japan and other countries (unfortunately, in the same year, 36 of them died due to severe frost). During the Second World War, the territory of the garden, which hosts a cavalry battalion suffered greatly, but was later restored.

Today in the Botanical Garden of Cagliari you can see about 2 thousands of plants, most of which relates to the typical Mediterranean flora. There is also a good collection of succulents and tropical plants. The garden is divided into three sections. The first Mediterranean plants collected mainly from Sardinia, as well as plants from Australia, California, Chile and other parts of the globe. The second section presents about thousands of succulents from Africa and the Americas, which grow in greenhouses and outdoors. Finally, in the third section, you can enjoy tropical plants.

In addition, in the garden there are about 60 trees and 550 shrubs. Deserves special attention collection of palms, which occupies an area of ​​4000 square meters - 60 trees belonging to 16 species. Also, tourists are attracted by the Canary spurge growing on an area of ​​100 sq.m. Botanical Garden of the attractions can be noted Roman cistern and natural caves.