Garden

Biennale Gardens

Name: Biennale Gardens
Address: Calle Giazzo, Venezia, Veneto, IT

325 locals recommend,

Tips from locals

Cristian

June 26, 2020

art and show most famous Artist in the world

Giulia

February 24, 2020

The gardens where every year take place the Biennale expo. You can walk there from San Marco and enjoy the view all along the coast :)

Dott Borella

February 12, 2020

“The so called Napoleonic Gardens just few steps from home” The Venice Giardini or Giardini della Biennale is an area of parkland in the historic city of Venice which hosts the Venice Biennale Art Festival, a major part of the city's cultural Biennale. The gardens were created by Napoleon Bonaparte (by emperor's decree in 1812) who drained an area of marshland in order to create a public garden on the banks of the Bacino di San Marco which is a narrow stretch of water dividing the gardens from St. Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace. The gardens contain a flourishing vegetation and are organized largely around a central avenue from where minors trails depart. Within the Gardens there are many monuments, most of which are placed in the area adjacent to St Mark's basin: namely, the monuments to Giuseppe Garibaldi, the patriot Pier Luigi Penzo, the mayor Riccardo Selvatico that promoted the Biennale, Richard Wagner, the great composer who died at Ca' Vendramin Calergi and the poet Giosuè Carducci. Pretty borders, leafy pathways and a dense canopy of trees make this an ideal escape in summer, and busts of famous figures such as Wagner and Verdi crop up among the bushes to add a historic touch. Walk east along the seafront from here and over a bridge and you'll also come to the Parco della Rimembranza, a strip of pine woodland created to honour the fallen of the Second World War.