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Garden of Ninfa

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62% trees around it and 183 species recorded.

67Forestyas Score

Protected

  • trees within 3 km62%
  • wild within 10 km79%
  • species recorded183

The forest around

62% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 65%Shrubland 5%Grassland 14%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 14%Built-up 0%Trees 62%Shrubland 7%Grassland 12%Wetland 0%Cropland 14%Built-up 4%Trees 65%Shrubland 6%Grassland 9%Cropland 17%Built-up 4%Trees 60%Shrubland 6%Grassland 12%Wetland 1%Cropland 18%Built-up 4%62%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km65%
  • 1–3 km62%
  • 3–6 km65%
  • 6–10 km60%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees62%
  • Shrubland7%
  • Grassland12%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland14%
  • Built-up4%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

183 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Hart's-tongue
Hart's-tongueAsplenium scolopendrium35 recordsErwin Gruber from Frohnleiten, Österreich, Steiermark · CC BY-SA 2.0
Iris japonica
Iris japonicaIris japonica24 recordsApple2000 · CC BY 3.0
Mastic tree
Mastic treePistacia lentiscus17 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Anemone hortensis
Anemone hortensisAnemone hortensis17 recordsLaura Morelli · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common borage
Common borageBorago officinalis13 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pomegranate
PomegranatePunica granatum12 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
European heliotrope
European heliotropeHeliotropium europaeum10 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Aroche assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Albanian spurge
Albanian spurgeEuphorbia characias10 recordsMacro63 · Public domain
Wavyleaf mullein
Wavyleaf mulleinVerbascum sinuatum10 recordsIorsh at en.wikipedia · Public domain
Small-leaf spiderwort
Small-leaf spiderwortTradescantia fluminensis9 recordsEnrique Dans from Madrid, Spain · CC BY 2.0
Dwarf Elder
Dwarf ElderSambucus ebulus9 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Sweet bay
Sweet bayLaurus nobilis9 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

67out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 62%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 79%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 183Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan11°4°86 mm
  2. Feb11°4°76 mm
  3. Mar14°6°72 mm
  4. Apr18°9°56 mm
  5. May23°13°50 mm
  6. Jun28°17°34 mm
  7. Jul31°20°24 mm
  8. Aug31°20°23 mm
  9. Sep26°16°67 mm
  10. Oct21°12°82 mm
  11. Nov16°9°120 mm
  12. Dec12°5°95 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Garden of Ninfa.

Botanical garden in Italy

Garden of Ninfa is a protected forest in Italy.

Seen from space, 62% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 79% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

183 species have been recorded around it: 112 plants, 0 fungi, 71 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hart's-tongue, Iris japonica and Mastic tree.

The best time to walk is in April.

Castello di ninfa e giardino
WikiRomaWiki · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Mar-Jun 09:00-18:00; Jul-Sep 09:00-18:30; Oct-Nov 09:00-15:00 · ticket requiredOfficial site
  • Area sosta camper Sermonetacampsite · 5.0 km · 2 within 10 km
  • B&B Piazza Romaplace to stay · 1.9 km · 19 within 10 km
  • Normanearest town · 1.9 km in a straight line
  • Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport (CIA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 38 km in a straight lineCar hire at CIA airport (Rome)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Garden of Ninfa seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmVia Francigena - 07 Lazio, Selva di Cori- Monte Lupone, Montelanico-Costa delle Tombelle and 5 more
  • 22named and notable trees within 6 kmLeccio Secolare 1495, Cerro di Valle Le Gotte, Faggio di Valle Le Gotte and 19 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 8shelters and huts within 6 kmJo Volubro, Casetta forestale and 6 more
  • 10viewpoints within 5 kmPiazza Angelo Stella, Piazza Belvedere, Mura Antiche di Norma and 7 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 44car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmArea sosta camper Sermoneta
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmB&B Piazza Roma, Casa Ivana, La Nuit d'Amelie - Home Residence and 16 more
  • 13restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Garden of Ninfa.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas32 mountains within 25 km
Monte Belvedere1,258 m · 9.7 kmMonte Capreo1,471 m · 9.9 kmMonte Semprevisa1,536 m · 12 kmMonte Malaina1,480 m · 17 kmMonte San Marino1,387 m · 17 kmMonte Sentinella1,109 m · 18 kmMount Algidus950 m · volcano · 22 kmMonte Cacume1,095 m · 23 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Lake Fogliano210 species · 20 kmLago dei Monaci221 species · 22 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

NINFA GARDENS
Astrovega · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ninfa 2
Greymouser · CC BY-SA 3.0
Giardino di Ninfa 23
Mentnafunangann · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Garden of Ninfa

Italy

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 183Species

Villa Borghese gardens

Italy · 54 km

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 27%Trees
  • 47%Wild
  • 937Species

See the guide

Farnese Gardens

Italy · 52 km

  • 40Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 437Species

See the guide

Villa Medicea of Poggio a Caiano

Italy · 293 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 339Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1071076) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,142 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Birdyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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