Risvegli — The Flower Festival at the Botanical Garden
The flower festival in the world's oldest botanical garden
About Risvegli
Flowers celebrated in the oldest garden in the world
Risvegli is the festival dedicated to flowers and the spring rebirth of nature, held at the Botanical Garden of Padua, the oldest university botanical garden in the world, founded in 1545 and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. For a few days, the garden celebrates flowers as an expression of beauty and a source of inspiration for a new way of living in the world.
Science, nature, and art
The program intertwines conferences and meetings with researchers, workshops for children and adults, guided tours, shows, and artistic performances, with special openings of the greenhouses and collections. Each edition revolves around a theme related to care, responsibility, and contemporary environmental challenges, in collaboration with Italian and international scientific and cultural institutions.
A Padua event focused on environmental culture
Organized by the Botanical Garden of the University of Padua, Risvegli is an opportunity to rediscover the historical and scientific value of the garden and to experience spring in Veneto with a new perspective on biodiversity, botany, and the relationship between humans and nature.
Risvegli — edition 2026
The eleventh edition of Risvegli takes place from May 1st to 3rd, 2026 at the Botanical Garden of Padua. The festival celebrates flowers as an expression of beauty and a source of inspiration for a new way of living in the world, with a program focused on cycles, transformations, and change, and on the themes of care, responsibility, and contemporary environmental challenges.
The program offers conferences and meetings with international researchers, workshops for children, workshops for adults, guided tours, shows, and artistic performances. Among the notable collaborations: the Linnean Society of London, the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, the Osmothèque (International Perfume Conservatory of Versailles), and the botanical gardens of Leiden and Parma.
Programme Risvegli 2026
May 1st to 3rd, 2026
- Conferences and meetings with international researchers on the themes of flowers, natural cycles, and environmental challenges.
- Workshops for children and workshops for adults, including with the Štěpán Zavřel Foundation (children's illustration).
- Guided tours of the collections and special openings of the greenhouses.
- Installation by the Fondazione Federica Galli on monumental trees and collaboration with the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Extended itineraries in the city: municipal rose garden and cloisters of Santa Giustina.
Detailed daily program and bookings on the official website ortobotanico1545.it.
Highlights Risvegli 2026
The conferences with international researchers, the installation on monumental trees by the Fondazione Federica Galli, and the city itineraries between the municipal rose garden and the cloisters of Santa Giustina.
Prices Risvegli 2026
Practical information — Risvegli
Where
Botanical Garden of Padua, via Orto Botanico 15, 35123 Padua (PD).
When
In spring, at the beginning of May, over several days.
Tickets
Admission with the Botanical Garden ticket; some activities and workshops may require booking.
Information and bookings
Email [email protected], tel. +39 049 8273939. Detailed program on the official website ortobotanico1545.it.
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Where does it take place — Risvegli
Orto Botanico di Padova
Via Orto Botanico 15, 35123 Padova