Botanical garden at the University of Basel, walking through which brings a lot of pleasure, founded in 1589, and is the oldest in the world. It belongs to the Botanical Department of the University and is adjacent to its territory.

The Botanical garden is open all year round. It consists of street territory, where there are several such sections, as a grove, a rock garden, areas for ferns, plants of the Mediterranean and other countries, greenhouses, intended to contain tropical plants, water lilies, succulents, and cold greenhouse, where there are sensitive to cold plants, which during the year change their location in the garden. You can see a lot of interesting and attracting General attention of plants, even those that are considered endangered.

At the Botanical garden guided tours for adults and a separate excursions for children. For the convenience of visitors also has several cafeterias and places for recreation, bookstore, where, in addition to books, you can purchase postcards and posters.