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They are situated in an ancient area where the convent of SantEpifanio once stood and whose cloister is still visible. In 1773 under the Austrian rule they were refurbished by the botanists Brusati and Borsieri. The architect Piermarini planned wooden greenhouses which were then replaced by iron and glass greenhouses. Research was deeply boosted by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1777), who increased the botanical specimens, so he made Pavias Botanical Gardens a centre of studies and avant-garde experimentation in Europe.