The first botanical garden in history was planted in Ancient Athens during the 4th century BC by Theophrastus, student of Aristotle, and father of botany. Hundreds of years later, in 1840, the German botanist Karl Nikolas Fraas came to Athens and chose today’s "Botanic" district to create Greece’s first modern botanical garden for the University of Athens.

As is happens with many botanical gardens, the Athens University Botanical Garden has a medicinal value among its environmental interest and natural beauty.

Covering a land of 1,860 acres, the Botanical Garden hosts over 2,500 different kinds of plants from all over the world and a rich variety of flora. It is the largest in Greece and in Eastern Mediterranean.

University of Athens: Diomidis Botanical Garden