Sasso Mobile

A collection of plants, set in their natural habitat, in continuous transformation with the flow of the seasons. This is the Nova Arbora Botanical Garden, a former farmhouse located within the confines of the Contrafforte Pliocenico Nature Reserve, near the town of Badolo. Donatella, the gracious proprietor who welcomes and offers thorough and fascinating information to her guests and students, has chosen to recreate a series of different environments, such as a wetland bog and pond, rock gardens, dry stone walls, fern forests and aromatic and medicinal herb beds. More than 1000 species of plants are here to be discovered: trees, bushes, perennial and annual herbs, but also poisonous, edible and hallucinogenic plants, as well as acquatic plants that are nearly extinct elsewhere in Italy.