Sežana Botanical Garden - Garden at Villa Mirasasso

The carefully tended Sežana botanical garden is easy on the eyes indeed. Cedar trees nearly two centuries old, orderly box tree beds and gravel paths, blossoming walkways and a palmarium in homage to the Schonbrunner Gardens in Vienna make for charming sights in all directions. The beginnings of this garden-architectural heritage reach back to 1848 when a Trieste family began to tend plants by their villa in Sežana, in the style of the Italian urban gardens, planting flowers from all parts of the world.

Today the garden exhibits nearly 170 plant species and some 700 plants, along with a trove of cultural heritage, most notably its greenhouse dating back to 1890.