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Hidden behind the famous Brera Pinacoteca in central Milan, the Orto Botanico di Brera is a small but historically important botanical garden tucked into the heart of one of the busiest districts of the city. Founded in 1774 under the reforms of the Austrian empress Maria Theresa, it was attached to the Jesuit and later imperial school that occupied the Palazzo Brera. The garden was originally created for the teaching of medical and pharmaceutical botany, with formal beds laid out for the syste...