The Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia was founded in 1567.
Throughout 200 years it was an orchard of medicinal plants for Medicinal studies. Until the 19th century it occupied diverse locations in the city of Valencia. It was in 1802 when it definitively located it to the University in the Orchard of Tramoyeres, outside the walls of the city, in the environs of the convent of San Sebastián, near the Towers of Quart.
Throughout the 19th century botany classes were held and the acclimatization of plants of agricultural interest was studied. During the 20th century, the Botanists underwent a long period of abandonment until, in 1987, the University of Valencia initiated a process of integral restoration that concluded in the 2000.
At the moment the Garden dedicates its investigation to the knowledge of the vegetal diversity, the conservation of the species rare, endemic or threatened Mediterranean flora and the conservation of the natural habitats. In addition, it has an exhaustive educative and cultural programme. It now house an important collection with about three thousand species of trees and plants, specially the palm and the cactus.
