Parco Pallavicino | Grandi Giardini Italiani

Information

Opening hours
Season 2025: every day from 15 March to 2 November as follows:

15 March to 25 October: 10 AM to 5 PM (last admission)
- The park closes at 6 PM
26 October - 2 November: from 10 AM to 4 PM (last admission)
- The park closes at 5 PM

Entrance
Free visit / fixed date
Adults: € 16.00
Children (6 - 15 years): € 10.50
Babies (3-5 years): € 5.00

Free visit / open date
Adults: € 17.00
Children (6 - 15 years): € 11.50
Babies (3-5 years): € 5.00

Combined tickets
- Parco Pallavicino + Isola Bella
Adults: € 33.00
Children (6 - 15 years): € 20.00

- 3 locations
(choice between Isola Bella, Isola Madre, Pallavicino Park or Rocca di Angera)
Adults: € 42.00
Children (6 - 15 years): € 25.00

Contact us
Via Sempione Sud, 8
28838 Stresa (VB)

T. +39 0323 933478

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History

In 1855 Ruggero Bonghi, a Neapolitan philologist and politician who was a friend of Manzoni and Rosmini, bought some lands in the south of the town of Stresa to build a holiday home with a garden. Thus was born the central nucleus of what is now the Pallavicino park. Then the property was sold to the Duke of Villambrosa who enlarged the building and planted groups of trees almost unknown in Italy at the time, such as Lyriodendron tulypifera and sequoias, in the park.

In June 1862 the property passed to Stefano Lodovico Pallavicino, who enriched the park with greenhouses and numerous driveways and embellished the villa inside and out with decorations and giving it its current imposing appearance. In 1878, on his death, the Villa and the Park had already assumed their current appearance.

Covering a surface of about 18 hectares, the park includes a zoological garden planned by the proprietor's mother, open lawns and classical gardens. There are innumerable trees including majestic sequoias, centuries-old chestnut trees, lyriodendrons, red beeches, maples in many varieties, larches, oaks, plane trees, magnolias and majestic sequoias. A superb cedar of Lebanon competes in grandeur with the facade of the villa.

Inside the park there is a farm with meek Tibetan goats, ''saltasassi'' sheep, sheep, llamas and deer that that live free in the grounds and look for contact with young visitors.

In July 2017, the Pallavicino Park became part of the Terre Borromeo circuit with Isola Bella, Isola Madre, Rocca di Angera and Parco del Mottarone. Since January 2021, Villa and Pallavicino Park have been the property of Prince Vitaliano Borromeo.

Grandi Giardini Italiani Srl

Grandi Giardini Italiani Srl