The Lorenzo Rota Botanical Garden of Bergamo, located on the Colle Aperto di Città Alta, is a small naturist laboratory where the passion and art of the workers make exotic plants live together with indigenous plants. In the Botanical Garden of Bergamo the human imprint is strong: it is with artifice, study and constant care that it is in fact possible the difficult coexistence of more than 1200 taxa within an area of only 2,400 square meters.
The Botanical Garden of Bergamo, for its demonstrative and suggestive character, contributes to bring the public closer to the world of plants and to arouse respect for nature. It carries out conservation activities for endangered plants and carries out projects for the reintroduction of endangered species into the wild.
Among the latter, the reintroduction of Osmunda regalis, a fern that the doctor and botanist Lorenzo Rota, the first descriptor of the flora of the Bergamo area, had reported in 1853 in Val Calepio and along the Adda river: the fern, which had disappeared in recent decades, was reintroduced in the same places a dozen years ago.
The Botanical Garden of Bergamo also exchanges with other botanical gardens seeds, fruits and spores collected within its spaces or in nature.
