Botanical Garden in Athens was created in 1840 by decree of Queen Amalia. Athenians also call this garden – “Royal Park”. Amalia was very passion about taking care of Garden and even had used Royal Navy to bring plants from remote locations of the world.
Park was designed by Friedrich Schmidt who also spent a lot of time in search of sparse plants. After Greece became the Republic Botanical Garden partly lost its grandeur which it had in 19 century. But it remains one of the attractive places in the city.
In additional to the lot of plants, you can see the remains of old aqueduct and Roman mosaics. Also you can visit a Botanical Museum and old zoo.
At the south part of the park there is so-called Zeppion, conference hall, which was built in 1888 by Theophil Hansen. Next to it there is small café where you can have a rest after the stroll over the Garden.
