The Minerva Garden<\/h1><\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text]Already in the early Middle Ages, in the area of \u200b\u200bSalerno called “Plaium montis” there was a large terraced vegetable garden, inside which a perennial spring gushed. A complex canalization system, created thanks to the techniques imported by the Arabs, guaranteed the irrigation of the countless plants grown there. The “viridario”, as the garden was called, was owned by the Silvatico family since the 12th century. The garden was soon made available to the Salerno medical school. Here lessons were held to learn how to recognize medical plants, they taught how to grow them, which parts could be used and with which therapeutic properties. Thus was born in Salerno the first botanical garden in Europe.[\/vc_column_text]