Giardini Giusti Palace

The Giardino Giusti is one of the must-see places in Verona.

It is part of the Great Italian Gardens and was an unmissable destination on the 19th-century Grand Tour, the journey to Europe made by the nobility to study art and see the beauty of the classical world, so much so that it is mentioned in Goethe's famous Italian Journey.

The Giusti family, a Tuscan family who moved to Verona to devote themselves to the wool dyeing industry, gave their name to the garden and the palace. Agostino Giusti was a cultured man with a passion for art, who had contacts with the most important families of the time, the Medici and the Hapsburgs. It was he who financed the expansion and the construction of the famous garden that surrounds the building to make it a place of representation.

If you are in Verona, it is impossible not to stop in this wonderful garden to breathe the pure air of the nobility of the time and to visit one of the most beautiful palaces in Italy.

Giusti Palace

Palazzo Giusti embodies the will of the Giusti family to make it a place of representation. The building is the result of the unification of several small buildings used for the wool business. Inside the palace, it is possible to visit the noble floor and the reception hall. The interior is in the style of the twentieth century and represents a real leap in time.

The Giusti Garden

Once a must for the poets and artists of the time, this garden has hosted intellectuals and nobles, as well as crowned heads such as Cosimo III, Emperor Joseph II, and King Carlo Felice of Sardinia.

A mythological and classical architectural style: an avenue of cypresses leads to the cave and the mask that dominates the garden from above. Low flowerbeds form a typical Italian garden, decorated with statues of Diana, Venus, and Adonis, leading to one of the oldest mazes in Europe, created in the sixteenth century and redesigned by the architect Luigi Trezza in 1786.

The wooded part leads to the upper part of the Giusti Garden, to the cave at the top. The climb is characterized by a cliff, a cave, and games in the shade, with tables and benches. From here you can admire Verona from above, thanks to a suggestive and wonderful viewpoint.