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Real Jardín Botánico

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Real Jardín Botánico is an eight-hectare botanical garden in Madrid beside the Prado Museum, entered from Plaza de Murillo, 2.

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Why go

  • The garden is part of the Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro World Heritage Site, a landscape of Arts and Sciences.
  • About 90,000 plants and flowers and 1,500 trees grow in the garden’s collections.
  • Bonsai donated by Felipe González grow on a terrace added in 2005.

Opening hours

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Monday10:00 – 17:30
Tuesday10:00 – 17:30
Wednesday10:00 – 17:30
Thursday10:00 – 17:30
Friday10:00 – 17:30
Saturday10:00 – 17:30
Sunday10:00 – 17:30

Don't miss

  • Terraza de los CuadrosOrnamental, medicinal, aromatic, endemic and orchard plants grow around a fountain.The Japanese garden is at the terrace’s southwest end.
  • Terraza de las Escuelas BotánicasPlants are arranged in phylogenetic order among about 12 small fountains.
  • Graells greenhouseThe 19th-century greenhouse displays tropical, aquatic and bryophyte plants.
  • Newer greenhouseTropical, temperate and desert climate rooms are inside.
  • Terraza del Plano de la FlorTrees and shrubs follow a mid-19th-century romantic English style; a pond holds a bust of Carl Linnaeus.

Shorts

History

The garden’s original mission combined teaching botany, classifying plants and supporting expeditions to discover species. Expedition collections included drawings, leaves, fruits, wood, and living or preserved plants. The original layout had three terraces. The two lower terraces retain their original layout; the upper terrace was redesigned in the 19th century.

  1. 1755King Ferdinand VI founded the garden at Migas Calientes on 17 October, with more than 2,000 plants collected by José Quer y Martínez.
  2. 1774–1781Charles III ordered the move to the Paseo del Prado in 1774; the new site opened in 1781. Casimiro Gómez Ortega and Francesco Sabatini prepared the initial three-level plan.
  3. 1785–1789Juan de Villanueva led the definitive garden design.
  4. 1794Alessandro Malaspina’s expedition brought 10,000 plants to Spain for the garden.
  5. 1808The garden was abandoned during the Spanish War of Independence.
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  1. 1857Director Mariano de la Paz Graells revived the garden, transformed the upper terrace and added a greenhouse.
  2. 1882–1886The original ten-hectare garden lost two hectares to the Ministry of Agriculture in 1882, leaving its present eight hectares; a cyclone toppled 564 trees in 1886.
  3. 1939The garden came under the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
  4. 1942The garden received the Artistic Garden heritage designation.
  5. 1974–1981It closed in 1974; restoration in 1980–1981 reinstated the original terraced layout, and it reopened in 1981.
  6. 1993Three modern greenhouses were built near the orangery and the 1857 palm greenhouse.

How to get there

  • TrainMetro: Estación del Arte, the nearest station, or Atocha on line 1.
  • TrainRail: Atocha station serves Cercanías lines C3, C4, C5, C8, C8a, C8b and C10.

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair-accessible paths Wheelchair-accessible paths are available.

Sources: Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid - Wikipedia · Madrid/Retiro-Paseo del Arte - Wikivoyage (see) · Real Jardín Botánico CSIC - Es ciencia, es educ… · Lectura fácil - Real Jardín Botánico CSIC · Historia del RJB - Real Jardín Botánico CSIC · Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid - Wikipedia · Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid - Wikipedia · Jardin botanique royal de Madrid - Wikipedia · checked 24 Sep 2026

Where
Plaza De Murillo 2, Madrid

Plan from here: Evening walk →

Questions and answers

What was the Villanueva Pavilion at Real Jardín Botánico built for?

It was built as a greenhouse in 1781.

Did Real Jardín Botánico once have a zoo?

Yes. Graells established a zoo there in 1857; it moved to Buen Retiro in 1869.

What kinds of roses grow at Real Jardín Botánico?

Its rose garden has included botanical, old and modern roses since 1977.

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