Cosmovitral

The Cosmovitral is a Botanical garden of: 3500 m ² which is with Toluca, capital of the State of Mexico City. The building which shelters the botanical garden is an impressive structure Art nouveau out of forged steel and of crystal of the beginning of the 20th century, which starting from the Porfiriat accommodated a time the market of the city known as of September 16th. Cosmovitrail monument which as its name indicates it, constitutes the largest stained glass of the world, is an impressive work of the Mexican Leopoldo Flores, whose main theme turns around the universal duality and antagonisms, in a play of lights filtered and multicoloured.

Situation

Cosmovitral is in the historical center of Toluca, between the street of Benito Juarez and that of Lerdo de Tejada. With its: 5000 m ² it are localized in lower part of the Congress of the State and the Cathedral.

It is open Tuesday to Sunday of 9: 00 to 17: 00.

History

Its construction begins on February 9th, 1909 and with the purpose to be completed in 1910 and to celebrate the festivals of the centenary of the independence of Mexico. It is engineer Manuel Arriata which one asks for the project of a market. The foundry and the steel-works of Monterey take care of the structure or the metal reinforcement of the building. The firm market in 1975 and after five years of refitting, the building is reopened with the public as a Botanical Cosmovitral-Garden on July 5th, 1980.

Mow will vidriera S of Cristal emplomado finalizaron in 1990 will be obra of Leopoldo Flores Valdés, E incluyen 28 color different from crystal, estando considerada como una of mow mayores will vidrieras LED mundo. In esta will obra, Flores Valdés our already plasmada known visión LED tiempo, LED movimiento, there of los contradictorios fenómenos that tienen lugar in the materia, desde una percepción cosmogónica. --->

Collections

The town of Toluca is located at: 2430 m of altitude, which implies a climate moderated with relatively cold winters for the area. Thus of many plants do not resist it. The conditions similar to a greenhouse is found inside Cosmovitral allow the survival of tropical plants.

This particular greenhouse shelters more than 400 species of plants coming from Central America and South America, but also from Africa and Asia, including/understanding lily, pink S, Mexican Orchidée S, bird of paradise, Cyprès and Fougère S.

There are also trees and shrubs such as the Araucaria of Chile or the amaranths of Brazil, and the tulipier S Chinese.

A bust and a plate, located in the middle of the garden, commemorate the Japanese explorer and botanist Eizi Matuda which arrived at Mexico in 1922 and he worked for the State of Mexico City during 28 years. It establishes the base of the herbarium of the state, while joining together more: 6000 species of plants autochtones which it will découvra, identified and classified.

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