La Mortola

In The Footsteps Of Thomas Hanbury

BY ALASDAIR MOORE

Brief Description:
In 1853, 21-year-old Thomas Hanbury made the long sea voyage from England to war-torn China, as the Manchu Dynasty began to crumble. In Shanghai, a city beset by rebels, greed, vice and opium, Hanbury carved out a great fortune and by 1867 he had acquired a small, dilapidated palazzo in the Italian Riviera village of La Mortola. It was here over the next forty years that Thomas Hanbury was to create the Giardini Botanici Hanbury, known as La Mortola, still one of the foremost and beautiful botanic gardens in the world.

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