- Title Gijón Asturias Centre
- Address Address: Avda. Jardín Botánico, 2230 ■ 33394 - Gijón/Xixón
- Phone Phone: 985 185 130 (taquilla) /985 185 131 (oficinas)
- Email Email: jardin.botanico@gijon.es
- Site Site: http://botanico.gijon.es/
- Documents Documents: Accessibility sheet
More than 30,000 plants of 2,500 different species in an environment of 25 hectares, 16 of which are already open to the public. Its collections, organised in 4 thematic areas, with the Atlantic Ocean as a common thread, allow you to get to know the plants used by man in the Old and New World, travel between dunes, marshes, boreal forests, and walk through a garden more than 150 years old, as well as some natural, mature and well-preserved forests, integrated in the enclosure: the Aliseda del río Peñafrancia and the Carbayera del Tragamón with its centenary oak trees.
It has a traditional rural Asturian farmhouse, the Quintana de Rionda, made up of the House, the Stables, the Llagar, the Mill and the Panera, which have been recovered and fitted out as museums to complete information on the collections.
All this is completed with other exhibition spaces and different explanatory supports for the interpretation of the contents present in the tour, which make this Botanical Garden a unique and singular space.
It offers an extensive programme of guided tours (general and thematic) included in the individual ticket price, as well as a wide range of educational and recreational activities for all kinds of audiences, with children's workshops every Saturday, conferences and courses, parties at each change of season, evening events, theatre and concerts.
- Guided tours.
Combined itinerary: Botanical Garden-Laboral City of Culture-Aquarium
Bus: lines 1,2 and 18 (daily), 26 (weekends only)