Ogród Botaniczny UMCS Lublin

The Botanical Garden of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University is one of the most interesting places on the map of Lublin, eagerly visited not only by its residents, school trips or students, but also by tourists from all over Poland and abroad.
The garden was established in 1965 and covers an area of 21.25 hectares. It is located in the northwestern part of the city in the Slawin district. A peculiarity of the place is its richly varied terrain with natural loess ravines, the valley of the Czechówka River and ponds.
The Botanical Garden of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University gathers about 7,500 described and documented species and varieties of plants from all over the world for educational, teaching and scientific purposes.
It is divided into more than a dozen departments and collections, including the Arboretum, the Department of Plant Systematics, the Department of Applied Plants, and the Rosarium. Exotic plants are gathered in the garden's greenhouses, where more than 2,200 taxa of plants from tropical and subtropical climates are housed on an area of almost 700 sqm. The Alpinarium with plants from the mountains of Poland and the world, located on a natural hill with a flowing stream and a view of the city skyline, is also an attractive place. Among other things, we can boast a rich collection of more than 550 species and varieties of chinaberry, which in May and June delight with their flower shape and variety of colors.

The Botanical Garden also houses a noble manor house, reconstructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which belonged in the second half of the 18th century to Jan Nepomucen Kosciuszko, Tadeusz's uncle. Near the Kosciuszko Manor are earthen ramparts in the form of a quadrangle, which were called "Kosciuszko entrenchments" in 19th-century Lublin magazines. The ramparts were entered in 2020 as the Redoubt of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, in the register of monuments of Lublin Province.

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