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Pisa Botanic Garden and Museum

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14% trees around it and 395 species recorded.

39Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km61%
  • species recorded395

The forest around

14% 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 13%Grassland 7%Water 4%Cropland 0%Built-up 76%Trees 14%Shrubland 1%Grassland 22%Wetland 0%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 20%Built-up 39%Trees 21%Shrubland 2%Grassland 25%Wetland 0%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 39%Built-up 11%Trees 43%Shrubland 2%Grassland 18%Wetland 1%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Cropland 26%Built-up 6%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km13%
  • 1–3 km14%
  • 3–6 km21%
  • 6–10 km43%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees14%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland22%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water2%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland20%
  • Built-up39%

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

395 species recorded.

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

Sacred lotus
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera41 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Caper bush
Caper bushCapparis spinosa37 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander28 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Lily of the valley vine
Lily of the valley vineSalpichroa origanifolia18 recordsMarcia Stefani · CC BY 2.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus15 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Baldcypress
BaldcypressTaxodium distichum14 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Sweet bay
Sweet bayLaurus nobilis14 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix14 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sacred bamboo
Sacred bambooNandina domestica13 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Giant Reed
Giant ReedArundo donax12 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Holm Oak
Holm OakQuercus ilex12 recordsFritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shrubby germander
Shrubby germanderTeucrium fruticans12 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

39out of 100

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

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 61%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 395Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan10°4°59 mm
  2. Feb11°4°63 mm
  3. Mar14°6°62 mm
  4. Apr18°9°51 mm
  5. May22°13°53 mm
  6. Jun28°18°35 mm
  7. Jul31°20°28 mm
  8. Aug31°20°37 mm
  9. Sep26°16°66 mm
  10. Oct21°13°90 mm
  11. Nov15°9°111 mm
  12. Dec11°5°78 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Pisa Botanic Garden and Museum.

Botanic garden and museum in Italy

Pisa Botanic Garden and Museum is an arboretum in Italy.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 61% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

395 species have been recorded around it: 291 plants, 11 fungi, 90 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sacred lotus, Caper bush and Oleander.

The best time to walk is in April.

Pisa, orto botanico, zona antica, della scuola botanica 21
Sailko · CC BY 3.0

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.

Pisa Botanic Garden and Museum 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

  • 19marked trails within 5 kmAnello di San Giuliano Terme, Via degli Acquedotti, Sentiero Gabriele D'Annunzio and 16 more
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 kmLeccio Monumentale, Platano, Nespolo and 2 more
  • 16picnic sites within 4 km
  • 37shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmKaffeehaus and 3 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmPortineria Orto Botanico, Infopoint Turistico Pisa Turismo - Duomo, Value Group Desk and 1 more
  • 351car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmCamping Village Torre Pendente, Via Pratale, Fattoria Olmetto and 8 more
  • 174places to stay within 10 kmAmalfitana, Hotel Cecile, Novecento and 171 more
  • 440restaurants 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 Pisa Botanic Garden and Museum.

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.

Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Monte Faeta830 m · 9.1 kmMonte Moriglione di Penna543 m · 9.4 kmPunta San Bernardo (Monte Pisano)574 m · 12 kmMonte Cimone (Monte Pisano)705 m · 13 kmMonte Lombardona629 m · 13 kmMonte Serra917 m · 13 kmPoggio Lecceta457 m · 22 kmMonte Maggiore (Colline Livornesi)454 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lago di Massaciuccoli7.2 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
VirgoBortle 5 · 13 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Lago di Massaciuccoli253 species · 14 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Grotta del Leone6.5 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Arno241 km · 100 m³/s

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Orto botanico di Pisa - school
Daderot. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Orto botanico di Pisa - general view
Daderot. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Orto botanico di Pisa 2
Laurentius · CC BY-SA 2.5

Other forests nearby.

Pisa Botanic Garden and Museum

Italy

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 61%Wild
  • 395Species

Villa Medicea of Poggio a Caiano

Italy · 54 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 339Species

See the guide

Pian delle Betulle

Italy · 268 km

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

See the guide

Jardin Exotique de Monaco

Monaco · 240 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 268Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q894670) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,285 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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

The family

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