Villa Pisani Park

The park took shape even before Villa Pisani was built. It is located behind it, designed with a perimeter of one and a half kilometres in which the fantastic Labyrinth in boxwood hedges, rightly considered among the most famous in Europe, has also found its place.

The idea for the ensemble is credited to the architect Girolamo Frigimelica, who designed the dominical building. His own works in the park are some of the original pavilions, the perspective plays of the Exedra with two wisteria galleries on either side, and the Scuderie which forms the backdrop to the large central parterre. In the 18th century, the spectacular view was to be enriched by an embroidery of hedges and flowers and colossal statues.

At that time, electric refrigerators were not yet a possibility. An artificial hillock surrounded by a ring of water, on which the rectangular Coffee House stands out, was used as ice storage during the summer. A second natural icebox was set up later in the trees of the English Grove. The attention paid by the Austrian 19th century to container gardening and landscape botany is evidenced by the addition of tropical greenhouses and large trees.