Orto Giardino del Convento della Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore

Information

Opening hours
Season 2025
All year round on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays with the following times:

1 January - 31 March: 10 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
1 April - 31 May: 10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.
1 June - 20 September: 10 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.
21 September - 31 October: 10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.
1 November - 31 December: 10 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.

CLOSED on the following days: 1 and 6 January, 5 March, 17, 18, 19 April; 4 October; 25 and 26 December

Access only with GUIDED TOUR on Saturday 19 July on the occasion of the Feast of the Redeemer

Entrance
Full price: € 12.00
Reduced price*: € 6.00
Children (up to 5 years): free**

*Residents, children aged 6 to 12, FAI members).
**Free admission also for clergy, ICOM, disabled persons with an accompanying person, tour guides licensed in Italy accompanying groups or individual visitors.

Contact us
Campo del SS Redentore, 194
30133 Giudecca (VE)

www.venicegardensfoundation.org

History

The garden complex is annexed to the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, designed by the renowned architect Andrea Palladio for the Serenissima, as a symbol of gratitude and rebirth after the 1575-1577 outbreak of plague, and entrusted to the Capuchins by Pope Gregory XIII. It extends for approximately one hectare from the Giudecca Canal to the lagoon. Before the restoration, the complex was visibly marked by the passage of time and by the acqua granda of November 2019. In 2021 it was entrusted to Venice Gardens Foundation, headed by Adele Re Rebaudengo, with the authorisation of the Holy See, to allow it to be restored and conserved in the years to come.

Visitors will discover a place of great beauty, restored using the plans drawn up by internationally renowned landscape architect Paolo Pejrone: long pathways articulated to recall the symbolism of the cross are shaded by a chestnut wood pergola covered by grape vines and climbing roses accompanied by wisteria and bignonias. Amidst the tall cypresses a grid of paths apportions space in the olive grove, the orchard and the flower and vegetable beds, a colourful world of aromatic herbs, vegetables and flower borders composed of Mediterranean, aromatic and medicinal species of plants. The Basin with water lilies marks the centre, “the heart” of the Convent Garden and, along the edge of the lagoon, is a garden of ivies and Pittosforums with compact evergreen foliage and, overlooking the water, a pergola covered with Rosa Banksiae “Alba Plena”.
Proceeding along the path, visitors will also discover the Meditation Chapel and the Old Workshops, historical low buildings, that will host exhibitions of high artistic merit. There is then the Café looking onto the lagoon, dedicated to welcoming and offering hospitality to visitors.

Regulation

✦ The Compendium is under video surveillance

✦ You are reminded: to behave in keeping with the monastic spirit of the site, to keep your animal on a lead, to smoke only in the designated area outside the café, not to disturb or feed animals.

✦ The following are forbidden: picnics, the use of amplifiers and sound diffusion systems, walking in flower beds, sitting on the ground, removing flowers, fruit or, plants parts, leaving your animal's droppings on the ground, playing ball, using electric scooters and wheelie bags, digging holes, throwing stones, writing on or marking walls, railings or trees or causing damage of any kind, attaching padlocks or other objects inside the Complex, disposing of trash or cigarette butts except in the receptacles provided, using drones, taking photographs or making videos for commercial, advertising, cinematographic uses or for television, except with the express written authorization of Venice Gardens Foundation.

✦ Venice Gardens Foundation and the site's proprietors decline all liability for damage to violators and/or third parties caused by failure to comply with these rules of conduct and/or in any case not attributable to the proprietors. Any wilful or negligent behaviour by a vistor that causes damage to the Compendium will lead to immediate expulsion. The competent authorities may be informed and wrongdoers will be obliged to pay compensation for any damage caused.

Grandi Giardini Italiani Srl

Grandi Giardini Italiani Srl