Universiteit Gent Botanical Garden

Ghent


Home to more than 10,000 species, the pièce de résistance of Ghent's 2.75-hectare botanic gardens is its glasshouses, which contain an impressive collection of tropical plants, subtropical plants and succulents, and offer shivering winter travellers what’s effectively a free sauna.


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