 BOTANICAL GARDENS, Sicily -- Orto Botanico of Palermo are among the oldest modern centers for botanical studies in the Mediterranean region. The park houses a greenhouse, seed and dried plant repository, catalogue archive, and more than ten hectares of outdoor gardens in the busy centre of what is today Sicily's largest city. The medieval kings of Sicily had vast gardens around the palaces known as the Cuba and the Zisa. The garden's neo-classical structures are based on designs by Trombetta, Marabitti and the famous Venanzio Marvuglia. One section of the gardens is arranged based on the Engler system, the other on the Linnaean system.
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