GREENHOUSES VISIT
Which are and what contain these beautiful constructions characterizing the garden landscape?
First of all, the tropical greenhouse, which is the most striking in photos, is the most important both for its historical and architectural value. It was built in the middle of the XIX century. It is the first Spanish building with iron and glass as main materials. Inside the room, you will be struck by the lush vegetation adapted to this climate type, such as typical lianas of rainforests, epiphytic plants living in trees’ branches, and the wide range of giant leaves asking to capture the scarce light reaching this undergrowth.
Right in front of it, there are four smaller iron and glass greenhouses, with the same design as the big one. Formerly, they were used to produce more plants later moved to different collections of the garden. After the restoration, they have been enabled as exhibition spaces open to the public. They are currently occupied by: orchids, which, with something like 20,000 species, constitute one of the largest families in the plant kingdom; carnivorous plants, who live in places whit very poor nutrients soil; ferns, the oldest vascular plants as the first ones who colonized the terrestrial environment; bromeliads, a large and characteristic family that includes tropical pineapple; carnations of the air and different kinds of indoor ornamental plants.
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The walk follows through the Caseta del Romero and the raft greenhouse
The Caseta del Romero was built at the end of the XIX century, as the four greenhouses above, and restored a century later. Formerly, it was the ferns stove but later was used for succulent plants cultivation. The outdoor collection of desert plants is there completed and it welcomes succulent plants sensitive to low temperatures. To conclude, we move to a charming corner of the garden, the balsa. There, we will find the greenhouse with this name and a selection of tropical palms.
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EXPOSITIONS VISIT
Temporary exhibitions
Different informative, didactic, or purely artistic routes around plants, nature, or the environment have been exhibited in the Hort de Tramaiores room and Estufa Fría of the Botànic.
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VARIACIONS DE TEMPS, ESTUFA FREDA
The fabulous Valencian landscape architect Esteve Adam exhibited with Terres de país and Variacions de temps, in two rooms of the garden. A walk through our natural heritage, full of marshes and inland roads, filtered by the artist’s gaze. It will seduce you, whether visiting it live or discovering it now..
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TERRES DE PAÍS, HORT DE TRAMOIERES
The fabulous Valencian landscape architect Esteve Adam exhibited with Terres de país and Variacions de temps, in two rooms of the garden. A walk through our natural heritage, full of marshes and inland roads, filtered by the artist’s gaze. It will seduce you, whether visiting it live or discovering it now.
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5ª EDICION
Our outdoor quick painting and narrative competition, called Inspirats pel Botànic, is now in its fifth edition! An artistic creation day to be seduced by our garden during the spring, which is its maximum splendidness moment. The clouds and rain didn’t want to miss the experience either, so they stayed with us all day. This is why we couldn’t exhibit the, more than 100, artists' works during the day. Through this virtual tour, you’ll be able to enjoy every single piece, which is special, unique, and biodiverse.
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A 60 illustrators’ works compilation, Associació de Professionals de la Il·lustració Valenciana – APIV members. They invite us to become aware of the real environmental revolt need through their working tools. An exhibition whose main theme is the environmental claim and the 21st-century great challenge of becoming aware of the sustainability importance. We can’t imagine a more suitable place than the Jardí Botànic of the Universitat de València, as a space for conservation, dissemination, and appreciation for our natural environment.
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MARCELO FUENTES, DIBUIXOS I FOTOGRAFIES 2006-2012
ESTUFA FREDA
Black and white images of a rainy, or shady, garden, of leaves with impossible shapes, and other details we surely have not noticed in our walks. Marcelo’s vision of the Botànic is framed in detailed and also quite abstract drawings, which accompanied him along his artistic and life path.
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MARCELO FUENTES, DRAWINGS AND PCITURES 2006-2012
HORT DE TRAMOIERES
Black and white images of a rainy, or shady, garden, of leaves with impossible shapes, and other details we surely have not noticed in our walks. Marcelo’s vision of the Botànic is framed in detailed and also quite abstract drawings, which accompanied him along his artistic and life path.
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The Botànic hosts Del Jardí al bosc, a painting exhibition by the visual artist Victoria Chezner. The fact of moving from the garden to the wood implies a personal evolution process over time; which, in turn, involves a slow and observant immersion in different landscapes. A searching and encountering process: emotional searching and inner nature encounter. In this project, thus, Victoria Chezner starts from the cultural character of the landscape, showing both a panoramic and detailed, also contextual and individual view. The drawing, painting, and colorwork convey that commitment to nature.
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The Jardí Botànic hosts once again an exhibition becoming common in its rooms, Illustraciencia 7, A traveling exhibition of 40 scientific and nature illustrations, which were selected in the seventh edition of the International Award on Scientific Illustration. Chosen by a professional jury from more than 400 submitted proposals, each of them shows us a botanical or animal species or a geological element represented with different techniques, such as graphite, watercolor, or digital drawing; with aesthetic finishes, always attending to the scientific rigor characterizing the scientific illustration discipline.
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