Marimurtra Botanical Gardens

Thanks to its landscape, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden is one of the most interesting botanical gardens in Europe. It receives more than 100,000 visitors each year. On the route that "will take us closer to the cliffs that border the sea, and that looms over one of the most beautiful and spectacular panoramas of the Costa Brava", we will see around 3,000 exotic species.

With an area of 4 hectares within a property dominated by Mediterranean forest, it is divided into three zones - subtropical, temperate and Mediterranean - in which, apart from indigenous communities, one finds varios artificially constructed plant communities found on the five continents.

Marimurtra, declared an Area of National Interest by the government of Catalonia, was founded over 80 years ago by German Carl Faust, a patron of biological sciences, with the intention of constructing, in Blanes, an international headquarters for scientific investigation. It currently directs its activity towards the conservation of endemic and endangered species in the Mediterranean environment.

The gardens are open all year round and make use of a bus service from the centre of the city with departures ever 20 minutes during high season.