Founded in 1972 by prof. Giovanni Lorenzoni of the University of Padua and the Inspector of the Forestry Corps Giovanni Zanardo, the Alpine Botanical Garden is located on the Cansiglio Plateau. To date, almost 1000 species of plants are can be found in the area of ​​the centuries-old Forest and the Col Nudo-Cavallo mountain massif, a vast area between the provinces of Belluno, Treviso and Pordenone, offering visitors the opportunity to observe their characteristics, to know its environmental distribution and to enjoy its beauty.
The educational and aesthetic aim is accompanied by the scientific and conservative one, through the will to unite the study of the multiple aspects of the flora and to visit an environment that collects rare and native species enriched by educational panels that help the visitor in understanding this magnificent place .
The habitats proposed in the Garden are very diversified to represent the complex territory surrounding it; amongst them, particularly noteworthy, are there are the alpine environments, the vegetation of the humid places, the beech, spruce and white fir woods, the mountain medicinal plants, the plants of the alpine arid environments and some specimens of very rare species.
A second area of the Garden has recently been opened, dedicated to the stable meadows and pastures of Cansiglio with a splendid panoramic point from which to admire the Alpago mountains.
The Garden, owned by Veneto Agriculture, has a Visitor Center and offers educational visits for children, teenagers and adults managed by the Lorenzoni Naturalistic Association.