The "Anastasie Fatu" Botanical Garden (Iaşi)

 park, garden, botanical garden

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The largest and oldest in Romania.
Nowadays, with more than 10,000 species of plants spanned over 100 hectares, Iaşi Botanical Garden is one of the largest in the world.
The Iaşi Botanical Garden was founded by Anastasie Fătu, on a terrain bought with his own funds in the immediate vicinity of the Râpa Galbenă. Stimulated by the interest expressed for the Anastasie Fatu's garden, the Physicians and Naturalists Society founds, in 1873, a second Botanical Garden, round about the residence of this society, that, at the present moment, is the Natural History Museum. In 1870, the leadership of the University of Iaşi take into consideration the problem of the organization its own botanical garden, on a terrain situated behind the old building of the University, where, nowadays, there are the buildings of the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy. In 1900, at the repeated insistences (since 1895) of the professor Alexandru Popovici, the University asks the terrain from the back of the actual Palace of Culture to organize there a new botanical garden. The repeated attempting to obtain the necessary funds to realize this garden has remained uselessly. In 1921, Alexandru Popovici organizes a new botanical garden on a terrain situated in the back of the new University building. This garden served the botanical education over 40 years, until 1963-1964, when it was eventually moved to its current location, in Copou Hill, under the supervision of professor Emilian Ţopa.