Botanical Garden of Pisa, which spreads over an area of ​​3 hectares - is a structural subdivision of the University of Pisa, is open daily to the public. This is probably the oldest botanical garden in the world.

The garden was founded in 1544 on the initiative of the famous botanist Luca Ghini from Imola and with the financial support of the Grand Duke Cosimo I de 'Medici - then it was Europe's first university botanical garden. In 1563, it was moved from the garden of the monastery of San Vito on the river (today this place is Arsenal Medici) closer to the monastery of Santa Marta in the north-eastern part of the city, and in 1591 at the initiative of the then head of Lorenzo Matstsanga - to its present location on the street Via Luca Ghini near the Piazza del Duomo.

From its earliest days in the botanical garden began to gather a collection of natural objects (now the Natural History Museum of Pisa) and opened a library, now part of the University Library. In addition, retained an excellent collection of portraits of the Botanical Garden of Directors, gathered over many centuries of its history, and one of the first greenhouses built in Italy of steel frames.

A modern botanical garden of Pisa is divided into several sections in which you can see the flower beds, ponds, greenhouses, various buildings. Here grow local and exotic species of plants, both in greenhouses and outdoors. It also operates the arboretum. The sight of the garden is an old building of the Botanical Institute, built in the years 1591-1595, whose back facade is decorated with seashells and mosaics in the style of ceramic grotesque.