The Botanical Garden of Faial is an ecological garden, component of the Faial Nature Park, established in 1986 to educate and protect the biodiversity common on Faial, an island of the Azores archipelago.
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i went to botanical garden by walking from town near the ferry terminal. It took about 30mins one way. i used Google map to get there, but there are 3 or so signs on the street which direction we should go. About 1/4 or so areas inside garden was under construction when i visited in early June in 2018. I dont know which season we have many bloomed flowers, but the time i visited, there are limited variety of flowers were bloomed. (= not a lot). If my memory is correct, i paid 8Euro as adult. if you need to kill time, ya, you can go. if you have other things to do, you can make "visiting this garden" as...
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Faial Botanic Garden is a beautiful and well-maintained spot, though I expected it to be a bit larger. Upon arrival, we were warmly welcomed with a complimentary iced mint tea, which was a lovely touch.
The garden features a video room with an informative video explaining the garden's history and significance. The video was excellent, but it doesn't autoplay—you'll need to manually start it, which was a minor inconvenience.
The garden itself is stunning, with every area thoughtfully curated and well-kept. Despite its smaller size, it’s a peaceful and enriching...
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Good place to spend an hour or two. The person who sold us the tickets was super friendly and gave us a short intro in great English and offered tasty herbal tea.
The garden itself is not huge and full of blossom but rather interesting if you want to see endemic Azorean plants of just a rather good looking one if you have time to spend walking.
Just don't expect wonders. Do expect basic niceness and few tiny pleasant details.
Totally worth the time (took us about an hour) and money (5€/adult, 2€/child)...
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