Jardin botanique du Val Rahmeh

In 1905 Sir Percy Radcliffe, a former governor of Malta, and his wife Rahmeh bought the property and added farmland to make a garden, which bears her name. In 1957 May Sherwood Campbell added a second garden, reached by a bridge, and a pond of water lilies and papyrus; she gave the estate to the nation in 1966, and it became a research centre for Mediterranean flora run by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

The garden opened to the public in 1967. Some 1,500 taxa grow in its humid microclimate, among them olive trees more than 400 years old and the toromiro, a small tree that has vanished from Easter Island. It is open daily except Tuesday, with an admission charge.

Jardin botanique du Val Rahmeh is a garden on Sentier de l’Ingenieur Incerti in Menton. The station Menton - Garavan is 500 m away (about 8 min on foot).