The Parco Giardino Sigurtà covers an area of 600,000 square meters and extends to the edges of the morainal hills close to Lake Garda, lying just eight kilometres south of Peschiera. It started off as the "walled'brolo'" (1617), the gardens of Villa Maffei (by Pellesina, a pupil of Palladio), a villa that in 1859 was the headquarters of Napoleone III. 
Over forty years of loving care, Carlo Sigurtà took advantage of the water-drawing rights from the river Mincio to achieve the "prodigious" feat of turning an arid hill into a flourishing green garden.

 The Parco Giardino Sigurtà covers an area of 600,000 square meters and extends to the edges of the morainal hills close to Lake Garda, lying just eight kilometres south of Peschiera. It started off as the "walled'brolo'" (1617), the gardens of Villa Maffei (by Pellesina, a pupil of Palladio), a villa that in 1859 was the headquarters of Napoleone III. 
Over forty years of loving care, Carlo Sigurtà took advantage of the water-drawing rights from the river Mincio to achieve the "prodigious" feat of turning an arid hill into a flourishing green garden.