The land for these gardens was acquired in different phases. The successive interventions extended its surface to Jaca street.
Nothing is preserved of the original layout and vegetation.
Going back further in time, the Real gardens are located on the old recreational estate of the Moorish king of Valencia, Ali Bufat Muley. After the conquest of Valencia by Jaime I, the Royal Palace with its gardens was built here.
The layout of these gardens corresponds to different styles of gardening due to the different remodeling carried out.
The gardens have numerous sculptures and monumental fountains, a rose garden, a pond with a waterfall and a traffic playground.
The current gardens have more than 100 different species of trees and a large number of shrubs. The vegetation stands out for its variety, with specimens of great size and age, although it can be said that Mediterranean forest and riparian forest specimens dominate.
The gardens have an aviary, next to which are mythological statues of Venus, Apollo, Diana and Cronos, all of them by the Italian Ponzanelli (17th century).
The round fountain in the rose garden of these gardens was previously in the Plaza de la Reina. The rose garden has approximately 6,000 roses of different species.
These gardens also have a wide variety of palm trees.
Inside the gardens is also the Museum of Natural Sciences, where the old paleontological collection of Rodrigo Botet is exhibited.
The Museum of Natural Sciences is located in a building built in the Jardines del Real. It is a museum that allows you to admire groups such as the Botet collection, previously exhibited in the Almudín, with its sample of fossils from South America.
The museum allows a journey through knowledge and natural history, taking special care of those contents that refer to the Valencian Community. There is from a reproduction of a prehistoric cave to a reconstruction of the study of Ramón y Cajal.