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Parco Giardino Sigurtà ❤️ the most beautiful park in Italy!
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Historical notes, curiosities and what to see at the Sigurtà Garden Park
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Parco Giardino Sigurtà: the park and historical overview
Stretching over 60 hectares, Parco Giardino Sigurtà is a masterpiece of landscape design where endless lawns alternate with spectacular seasonal blooms. Foremost among these is the spring Tulipanomania in March and April, when more than one million tulip bulbs burst into a dazzling mosaic of colour. In May, the spotlight shifts to the Avenue of 30,000 Roses, a fragrant kilometre‑long promenade framed—thanks to a curious optical effect—by the imposing silhouette of the Scaliger Castle.
Eighteen ornamental ponds, laid out in romantic style, host water‑lilies, lotus flowers, water hibiscus and papyrus throughout the summer, while panoramic avenues and shady clearings offer ever‑changing views. Small wonder the park was named Italy’s Most Beautiful Park 2013, Europe’s Second Most Beautiful Park 2015 and celebrated its 40th anniversary of public opening in 2018.
Among the most popular attractions is the Maze, inaugurated in 2011 after six years of work. Conceived by Count Giuseppe Inga Sigurtà together with renowned maze designer Adrian Fisher, the labyrinth weaves 1,500 yew trees across 2,500 m². At its centre rises a tower inspired by the one in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne: from the top you can admire the maze’s perfect geometry, the Water Gardens and the mighty Great Oak, a 400‑year‑old giant of the park.
Other highlights include the romantic Castelletto, the Horizontal Sundial carved from Vicenza stone, the Stone of Youth—to which local lore attributes good‑fortune powers—and the secluded Hermitage, an ideal spot for quiet reflection.
Today the third generation of the Sigurtà family—the grandchildren of founder Carlo—carry on the project with passion, aiming to introduce younger generations to the botanical and cultural heritage of Parco Giardino Sigurtà.
The garden can be explored on foot, by electric golf‑cart, panoramic train, electric shuttle or by bicycle, each option offering a different perspective on this treasure of biodiversity set among the morainic hills of Lake Garda.
