The Samara Arboretum (

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''Arboretum de Samara'') is an

arboretum An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, man ...

and

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located in the Samara historical park in

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. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. Samara is a regional development project that recreates ancient civilization and habitation based on local

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

, from

paleolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...

to Gallo-Roman times, including reconstructions of homes and other buildings set within the area's marshes. The park includes an arboretum (100 varieties of trees), small botanical garden (500 plant varieties), ethnobotanical garden representing

neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

cultivation, and nature trail.

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