Turistakent Santosban...Tourist attractions - Orquidário Municipal de Santos

Az Orquidario Santos (teljes neven Parque Zoobotanico Orquidario Municipal de Santos) egy botanikus kert Santos, Jose Menino nevu varosreszeben amely egy parkka alakitott mini allatkertet es novenyhazat igyekszik kombinalni a buja, tropusi erdei kornyezettel. Kivalo setakat lehet ott tenni, ha az ember kicsit unja mar a varost es a tengerpartra sem vagyik eppen (peldaul mert a homero higanyszala megint a 40. fokot dongeti).

Maga a parkban setalas tenye kicsit visszaroppent gondolatban Angliaba, de aztan ennyi is, mert itt aztan se huvos ido nincsen, se tolgyfak, se mokusok se varjak...Vannak viszont kisallatok, mint peldaul kapivarak, amelyek szabadon maszkalnak a parkban, van egy vidrapark, teknosok es lattunk egy kajmant is. 

Mivel tropusi novenyparkrol van szo, az itteni novenyek szamos tropusi madarfajt vonzanak igy a parkban lathatok tukanok, arapapagajok, pavak es hejak is. 

A novenyhaz tovabba 5000 fele orchidea-gyujtemenynek ad helyet.

A novenykertet hivatalosan 1945-ben avattak fel, hogy bemutassak Julius Concepcion orchideagyujtemenyet. Julius a mult szazad elejen elt Santos Boqueirao keruleteben es majd` 90 ezer orchideat tartott es gondozott amelyeket fakon, vagy pergolakon futtatott fel. A park nyitasakor a park facsemeteket kapott az onkormanyzattol, hogy az orchideakat azokon tudjak felfuttatni, kesobb pedig a mas botanikusok altal, a vilag minden tajarol hozott viragokkal bovult a gyujtemeny.

A parkot egyebkent 1932-ben, Julius Concepcion halala utan nyitottak meg a nyilvanossag szamara, es ez volt az elso turista latvanyossag Santosban.
Ekkoriban a novenykert meg a Concepcion birtokon belul helyezkedett el, amelyet Julius Concepcion halala utan egy jelkepes osszegert Santos varos onkormanyzata vasarolt meg ezzel letrehozva az Orquidario Municipal de Santos-t.

(Forras: http://www.thetourexpert.eu/santos-sao-paulo/santos-municipal-orchidarium-brazil/)

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Parque Zoobotanico Orquidario Municipal de Santos (or as it is called Orquidario Santos) is a zoo-botanical park and orchid garden in Jose Menino district of Santos. 

  

Altough the distance between the park and the beach is just 300m, right away you enter the garden, you feel relaxed out of the noisy streets and can take long walks among tropical plants and small animals. 

Thinking about parks, I feel a bit back to UK when I am there, but just for minute as here of course the temperature of the air is high and humid, no pine trees and squarrels or crows.

There are though tropical animals like capivaras, otters, turtles or cajman and exotic birds such as tucans, parrots or peacocks.  

The garden inaugurated in 1945, to show the orchids of Julius Concepcion, a lover of flowers who lived at the beginning of the last century in a mansion in the neighbourhood of Boqueirao, where he grew about 90 thousand orchids on trees and lath slats.

After the opening the park received trees to support the flowers and later, botanists introduced species from around the world to the park, forming a natural forest. 

The park first opened to the public after Julius Concepcion`s death, and in 1932, and it became the first public attraction in Santos. The Concepcion estate subdivided the land, which made up the largest outdoor orchidarium in the world at the time. The estate sold its biological heritage to the city for a symbolic amount to form the Santos Municipal Orchidarium. The state of São Paulo donated the area where the park is today to the city in 1914.

(Source: http://www.thetourexpert.eu/santos-sao-paulo/santos-municipal-orchidarium-brazil/)

A novenykert 1945-ben / The botanic garden in 1945

Orquidario Santos