Sigurtà Garden Park
Open from 8 March to 10 November 2024
Why you should buy your ticket on BB Garda Lake.
Description
The Sigurtà Garden Park is open every day, including holidays, from 8 March to 10 November:
on April 1st (Easter Monday), April 25th and May 1st 2024 entry will be limited and advance tickets on sale here will NOT be valid.
The Sigurtà Garden Park is a naturalistic oasis of 600,000 square meters which boasts over 6 centuries of history; already awarded as the Most Beautiful Park in Italy and Second Most Beautiful Park in Europe, in 2023 the Garden Tourism Network awarded the Park as one of the best gardens in the world worth visiting.
The Sigurtà Park hosts countless points of interest: a magnificent 2500 square meter labyrinth, the Avenue of Roses with thousands of re-flowering specimens along a kilometer of promenade, the Great Lawn with the Flowering Lakes in the centre, 18 bodies of water including the evocative Water Gardens, Tulipanomania, the flowering with more than a million tulips, awarded in 2022 as the Best Tulip Festival in the world.
And then historic buildings, such as the Hermitage and the Castelletto, centuries-old trees such as the Great Oak, the Farm for the little ones, the Panoramic Walk: this and much more is the treasure guarded by the Sigurtà Garden Park.
Sigurtà Park has a double soul: an Italian-style design characterized by geometric designs that circumscribe the space and an English-style one that is based on the combination of natural and artificial elements such as caves, centuries-old trees, small temples where those who walk perceive nature orderly even when it takes on a more spontaneous character. This green treasure, nestled on the moraine hills a stone's throw from Lake Garda, has been a destination for hundreds of thousands of visitors in every opening season for over 45 years.
The Garden can be visited on foot, by bicycle (with your own or by renting the electric version from the rental service inside the Park), on electric golf carts or on board the panoramic train.
The Park is committed to promoting sustainable and environmentally friendly practices, for this reason, over the years, it has made choices that have revolutionized its world.
Blooms
March : first colorful tulips accompanied by muscari, hyacinths and daffodils, golden yellow forsythia trees, the pink flowers of the dogwood, while the peach, almond and prunus trees show delicate inflorescences.
April : more than a million tulips, in over 300 varieties, both in fully designed flowerbeds year after year and free-form in the woods. The irises begin to bloom, with yellow, orange, purple and pale pink shades. While near the Hermitage red, pink, purple, yellow and white peonies bloom.
May : thousands of roses in two ever-blooming varieties bloom on the famous Viale delle Rose, and other varieties in different points of the Park such as in the corner dedicated to the Lovers' Bench; water lilies with pale pink, intense pink, red, cyclamen, white and yellow petals begin to bloom and decorate the bodies of water.
June : rustic and tropical water lilies, while hydrangeas show themselves in red, pink, mauve, light blue, violet; and then zinnias with yellow, red, purple, orange, lilac, green tones, hibiscus syriacus with fuchsia, white and purple flowers, daylilies with yellow, red and orange shades, lotus flowers with large white and pale pink petals.
July : tagetes with yellow and orange flowers, multicolored zinnias, canna indica in 9 varieties including the tiger one, dahlias in over 30 varieties and different colors of white, pink, orange, yellow and burgundy red.
August : water lilies, canna indica, dahlias, roses.
September : dahlias, roses, asters with blue and purple petals.
October : roses on the famous Viale delle Rose; the fall foliage begins with shades of gold, ocher, yellow, red, orange in the Japanese maples, in the ginkgo biloba trees, in the liquidambar trees, in the tulip trees.
November : fall foliage continues.
The Park has been part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani network since 2007, a network that includes the most beautiful gardens that can be visited in Italy; since 2020, however, it has been included in the prestigious Garden Route Italia project, aimed at enhancing Italian gardens, promoted by APGI - Association of Parks and Gardens of Italy.
Animals are not allowed to enter to safeguard the internal fauna of the Park.
