Faial Botanical Garden

Disappointing but may be good for the experts

The garden offers and overview of endemic plants of the Azores. It is not so well maintained and there were very few flowers. Introduction movie. Mainly for the subject matter experts

If botanic gardens are your thing, be sure to visit this place

A visit to this extensive botanic garden would be enjoyable for anyone, and if plants are your thing you’ll love it all the more. Extensive grounds, meticulously groomed,preserving and propagating the...

Killing time

We were short of something to do and had seen the sign for the botanic gardens so decided to visit. We got pensioners rates which was a saving of around 40%. We were shown a video which was very int...

Endemic Azorean plants

We visited the garden during some spare time during a tour of the Azores. While the goal of the garden is preservation of Azorean plants through a seed bank, you can't see the seed bank. When we wer...

It doesn't deserve the value

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Very disappointed. Many of the sick plants. In the Orchidary there were only 4 flourishing plants. The staff very friendly. Very expensive for what it is. We cost us € 7.5 per person. Not worth it.