The Botanical garden of Cagliari is located on Viale Sant Ignazio da Laconi and is administered by the local University. The first predecessor of the current garden was created in the city between 1752 and 1769-year in the quarter su Campo de su PE while modern garden was inaugurated in 1866, the year Professor Patrizio Gennari. On the project of the garden was developed by Giovanni Meloni Baille, which for these purposes has acquired a plot of land in Valle di Alabanda. Under his leadership for two years worked on the alignment and arrangement of this site, intended for abandoned and a garbage dump.

In 1885, the year was published the first list of plants of the Botanical garden, and by 1901, the ninth year in it grew for about 430 plants from India, America, Africa, Madagascar, the Atlantic Islands, China, Japan and other countries (unfortunately, in the same year, 36 of them died because of severe frost). During the Second World war the territory of the garden, which housed a cavalry battalion, suffered greatly, but was subsequently restored.

Today in the Botanical garden of Cagliari, you can see about 2 thousand plants, most of which relates to typical Mediterranean flora. There is also a nice collection of succulents and tropical plants. The garden area is divided into three sections. The first Mediterranean plants collected mainly from Sardinia, and plants from Australia, California, Chile and other parts of the globe. The second section presents about a thousand succulents from Africa and the Americas that grow in greenhouses and outdoors. Finally, in the third section you can admire tropical plants.

In addition, the garden grows approximately 60 trees, shrubs and 550. Special attention is the collection of palm trees, covering an area of 4 thousand square meters, has 60 trees belonging to 16 species. Also, tourists are attracted Canary spurge growing on an area of 100 sq. m. of the attractions of the Botanical garden can be noted Roman cisterns and natural grottoes.