Jardin Botanique Exotique du Val Rahmeh

Menton


Laid out in 1905 for Lord Radcliffe, governor of Malta, the terraces of the Val Rahmeh overflow with exotic fruit-tree collections, including the only European specimen of the Easter Island tree Sophora toromiro, now extinct on the island.


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