The Julian Alpine Botanical Garden is a protected monument of designed nature and a natural value of national importance. Blooming, green gardens on an area of 2572 m2 impress with more than 600 different species of plants, including endemics, plants that grow only in Slovenia.
The Juliana Alpine Botanical Garden was founded in 1926 by the Trieste landowner and merchant Albert Bois de Chesne, who thus realized his dream of setting up a garden in which vegetation belts follow each other as in nature. He named it after his wife Juliana. He was helped with advice by a mountaineering friend and explorer of the Julian Alps, dr. Julius Kugy, attracted to Trento by the mysterious Scabiosa Trenta, a Trento grindstone who became a symbol of his youthful quest.
Source: Soča Valley
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