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LOCATION

Fossa della Garofala

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subject

Conservation biology

description

Fifteen hectares of green, a strip of Conca d'Oro, the wide plain on which the city of Palermo extends, saved from the urbanization of the western part of the city, it is the legacy of an elegant garden wanted by Louis Philippe duke of Orlèans, in the 19th century. Today it houses the experimental fields of the Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences.

http://www.musei.unipa.it/eng/garofala.html