Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University

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The Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University (Polish: Ogród Botaniczny Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego) is a botanical garden, located at 27 Kopernika Street in Wesoła, the former district of Kraków, Poland. It is founded in 1783 and occupies 9.6 hectares. It belongs to the Jagiellonian University.

History: Botany was taught to medical students at the Jagiellonian University from the end of the sixteenth century. However, the school did not have a test garden. The university rector, Dr. Kazimierz Stępkowskiego, writing in 1756, provided five thousand złoty for preliminary work to create a garden. The garden itself was founded in 1783 and is the oldest remaining in Poland. Kraków Botanical Garden was in place family Czartoryski, purchased in 1752 by the Jesuits. After the dissolution of the Order, it was transferred to the Commission of National Education, which is part of the reform of the Kraków Academy established a botanical garden as an auxiliary unit of the Faculty of Chemistry and Natural History. The area covers about 2.4 hectares initially designed as a French baroque park within which decorated collection of medicinal plants and ornamentals. Organization...