Botanical Garden "Hanbury ', spread over an area of ​​18 hectares a few kilometers from the Ligurian town of Ventimiglia - is the largest botanical garden in Italy and one of the biggest in Europe .  Its management is run by the University of Genoa .  The garden was founded by Sir Thomas Hanbury on a small peninsula of Capo Mortola, outstanding in the Mediterranean Sea .  In 1867 Hanbury bought extant Palazzo Orengo and for several years with his brother Daniel, a botanist and landscape architect Ludwig Winter and some scientists worked on the garden .  By 1883, the ninth year it grows around the Palazzo has about 600 plants in 1889 there were 3, 5 thousand, and by 1912 the ninth year - 5800! Hanbury died in 1907, but the creation of the garden continued after the First World War, with the assistance of his daughter, Lady Dorothy Hanbury .  Unfortunately, during the Second World War the botanical garden was severely damaged, as was a few years without leadership .  In 1960, Lady Hanbury sold it to the government of Italy, which instructed the garden first International Institute of Liguria, and then - to the University of Genoa .  In 1987 it was realized a large-scale restoration project of the botanical garden, and in 2000 it was declared a protected natural area . 

Today, 9 of the 18 hectares of the total area of ​​the garden are cultivated land, on which there are about 2, 5 thousand species of plants. Most local exhibits related to the plants of Mediterranean zone. Here you can see the agave, aloe, araucaria planted back in 1832. year, sage, olive groves. In a greenhouse, rare fruits grow Actinidia, papaya, persimmon, feijoa, myrtle, macadamia irgu, kumquat. Separate sections of the garden busy with palm trees, succulents, Australian plants, citrus and flowers.

In addition to the botanical part, in the garden, "Hanbury 'there are other attractions - such as fragments of an ancient Roman road, grottoes, sculptures, fountains, bronze dragon from Kyoto and the Japanese bell 1764 year. At the grave of Thomas Hanbury and his wife established the quaint Moroccan Pavilion. You can also see Moorish museum at the entrance to which is a mosaic with the image of Marco Polo.