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Padova botanical garden

Unknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5

20% trees around it and 207 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km20%
  • wild within 10 km33%
  • species recorded207

The forest around

20% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 18%Grassland 2%Built-up 80%Trees 21%Grassland 16%Water 2%Cropland 6%Built-up 57%Trees 15%Grassland 19%Water 1%Cropland 27%Built-up 38%Trees 10%Grassland 21%Water 1%Cropland 46%Built-up 22%20%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km18%
  • 1–3 km21%
  • 3–6 km15%
  • 6–10 km10%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees21%
  • Grassland16%
  • Water2%
  • Cropland6%
  • Built-up57%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

207 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus33 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Deodar Cedar
Deodar CedarCedrus deodara24 recordsPaul Evans from London, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Bois d'Arc
Bois d'ArcMaclura pomifera21 recordsThomas R Machnitzki ( thomas machnitzki.com) · CC BY 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica19 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bugle
BugleAjuga reptans19 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Paper mulberry
Paper mulberryBroussonetia papyrifera15 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sacred lotus
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera12 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sweet mock orange
Sweet mock orangePhiladelphus coronarius12 recordsMatasg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Water Lettuce
Water LettucePistia stratiotes11 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea11 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Sweet bay
Sweet bayLaurus nobilis10 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus10 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

40out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 20%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 33%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 207Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan6°0°44 mm
  2. Feb8°1°63 mm
  3. Mar13°4°66 mm
  4. Apr18°9°72 mm
  5. May23°13°93 mm
  6. Jun28°18°74 mm
  7. Jul31°20°71 mm
  8. Aug30°20°77 mm
  9. Sep25°15°82 mm
  10. Oct19°10°81 mm
  11. Nov13°6°96 mm
  12. Dec7°1°62 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Padova botanical garden.

Botanical garden in Italy

Padova botanical garden is an arboretum in Italy.

Seen from space, 20% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 33% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

207 species have been recorded around it: 142 plants, 1 fungi, 64 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cherry laurel, Deodar Cedar and Bois d'Arc.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Orto botanico padova
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Padova botanical garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 10marked trails within 5 kmRadiale Colli, Radiale Forcellini, Ultimo Cammino di Sant'Antonio and 7 more
  • 9named and notable trees within 6 kmPalma di Goethe, Abete di San Leopoldo and 7 more
  • 40picnic sites within 4 km
  • 15shelters and huts within 6 kmPala DEI, Padova Autostazione and 13 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmCasale, Paleoalveo - Volta di Brenta Vecchia, Scalinata del Porto fluviale del Portello and 2 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmUfficio Informazioni della Basilica del Santo, IAT Padova, I.A.T. Padova Centro and 1 more
  • 657car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmArea Sosta Camper Padova, AgriCamping Padova, Agricampeggio SanPio X and 1 more
  • 169places to stay within 10 kmSerafino Hotel, Casa del Pellegrino, Hotel Donatello and 166 more
  • 378restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Padova botanical garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Monte Ceva255 m · 14 kmRocca Pendice304 m · 17 kmmonte Rua416 m · 18 kmMonte della Madonna526 m · 18 kmMonte Venda601 m · 19 kmMonte Ricco330 m · 19 kmMonte Rusta396 m · 20 kmMonte Lozzo324 m · 23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Astronomical Observatory of PadovaBortle 9 · 1.0 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

OrtoBotPadova Incrocio viali
Semolo75 · Public domain
OrtoBotPadova Macchia mediterranea
Semolo75 · Public domain
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua-112027
Anastasia Tzigounaki · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo

Other forests nearby.

Padova botanical garden

Italy

  • 40Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 33%Wild
  • 207Species

Trnovo Forest Plateau

Slovenia · 162 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 163Species

See the guide

Pian delle Betulle

Italy · 205 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 300Species

See the guide

King's House on Schachen

Germany · 232 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 615Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q598892) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,992 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Darkskyas, Birdyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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