Giardini Reali

The Royal Gardens of Venice, connected to Piazza San Marco by a drawbridge, originated in the Napoleonic-era reform of the Marciana Area. Venice Gardens Foundation, headed by the President Adele Re Rebaudengo, reopened them to the public in 2019.
The Royal Gardens express the style of the Italian landscape Maestro Paolo Pejrone, to whom the Foundation entrusted their restoration. Lush and rich with unexpected perspectives, the Gardens, which include the Greenhouse and the Café Pavilion designed by L. Santi in 1817, regained their formal beauty and botanical complexity and returned to play a key role in the city's life. The intervention was conservative where the Gardens' design and architecture were concerned – with geometrical rigour of the flowerbeds that is typical of the nineteenth-century version of giardino all'italiana – but at the same time innovative and experimental from the botanical and gardening point of view, with plentiful freedom and exuberance evident in both. The gardens' heart is the long nineteenth-century pergola covered by two varieties of wisteria and of Podranea ricasoliana “Contessa Sara”; in the parterres, groves of Tetrapanax papyrifer, six-thousand Agapanthus with spectacular blooming, and thousands Farfugium, are interposed with paniculata and arborescens “Annabelle” hydrangeas, Ruscus, irises and myrtles. All around are numerous examples of Sophora; Pterocarye fraxinifolia; bamboo groves; dunes of Laurum, Pittosporum, Euonymus, and Elaeagnus, stronghold against the wind and salt; along the canal, there are large vases with pomegranate, fig, and loquat trees and viburnums.
The Royal Gardens, restored by Venice Gardens Foundation with the support of Generali Assicurazioni, are now preserved by the Foundation's gardeners. Among the Awards received: Il Parco più bello d'Italia 2022, the European Heritage Award and the Grand Prix - Europa Nostra Award 2023.
The Foundation is currently dedicated to the restoration and conservation project of the Convent Garden of the Palladian Church of the Most Holy Redeemer. Site of high historic and symbolic value which will open to the public in Autumn 2024.

By plane
Below are the distances to major airports:

• Venice Airport: 7.5 Km
  
• Venice Treviso Airport: 26.2 Km
  
• Trieste Airport: 99.3 Km
  
• Verona Airport: 111,5 Km
  
• Bologna Airport: 129,9 Km
  

By train
The Train station Venezia Santa Lucia is connected to the main Italian cities by trains of the FS Italiane and Italo Treno NTV lines.

By car
Highway A4 Turin-Trieste crosses Italy from East to West and touches all major cities, also arriving near Venice. Exit Venice. Once in Venice enter the Mestre ring road (A57) and take the Ponte della Libertà bridge that takes you directly to the car park at Piazzale Roma, where you can leave your car and continue on foot and/or by boat.
The A4 is well connected to other major roads:

From the North: A22 Brennero - Modena motorway, exit Verona, then follow the signs for the A4 Turin-Trieste

From the South: Highway A13 Bologna - Padua. exit Padua, then follow signs for the A4 Turin-Trieste.

From Belluno: Highway A27 Belluno - Venezia then follow signs for the A4 Turin-Trieste.